Life Beyond Work – Podcast 3 – with Laurie Traquair Back
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read moreWhat Happens When You ‘Retire’? Did you know your retirement may well take up a third of your life? If you’re fit and healthy it’s likely you’ll live actively another 30 years after you retire even if it’s at 70 or so. Retirement means leaving paid employment, your ‘career’ or your ‘job’ – the third or more of your life you spent working for someone else. You probably spent 25 years ‘getting educated’ with those seemingly all important ‘qualifications’ you…
read moreEn Retrait The French for ‘retired’ means literally ‘in retreat’. But retreat from what? Not from ‘life’ because life goes on, and on. Life expectancy this century is likely to increase, probably to around 120, which is a long way from the ‘allotment’ of years quoted in Psalm 90. “The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”…
read moreHow to Escape from Plan A In my grandparents’ time men weren’t looking to live much beyond 70. This may have had something to do with wars, but the pattern of life (and in those days most women didn’t work in paid employment) was a short few years after ‘retiring’ from working for someone else. The meaning of ‘life after work’ was thus fairly minimal, usually consisting of ‘waiting for God’. The plan of life was, and to some extent…
read moreAre You Looking Forward to Retirement? Many people look forward to the release from having to work for someone else or even a faceless corporate organisation. They look forward to the freedom from having to do what someone else wants them to do, and list most of the benefits they’re looking forward to in sentences starting “I won’t have to . . . “ and so on. Sounds good, whatever you did in your role at work won’t be your…
read moreTime to Power Down? Looking at retirement as a time to ‘power down’? Most people in positions of responsibility in business or public service see ‘retirement’ as a time when they no longer have to ‘do’ anything. A time for rest and recuperation, a time to escape from the stresses and anxieties of the last 40 or so years of ‘employment’, whatever it might be. Certainly, there is time for a ‘honeymoon’ period after we leave ‘work’ but we soon…
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