Think About Retirement Differently
Stefan Sagmeister recommends a powerfully different way of thinking about retirement. For most people, retirement looks like this:
Grow up and learn for 25 years, work for 45 years and at the end take 15 years of retirement.
Sagmeister arranges his life differently:
Instead of taking the 15 years of retirement at the end, he chops off 5 retirement years and intersperses them throughout his working life.
Impractical, you say? What if you saved enough money to cover all your expenses for a year in advance?. Would you do it then?
The mini-retirement is a powerful idea, and one that I’m trying at the moment. As I type this I’m in the middle of a mini-retirement in Hawaii, taking time off from my career and planning the next move in my life.
It’s one of the best decisions I’ve made. But more to come on that in a future blog post.
For now, watch this TED talk and think about a mini-retirement for your own life. What would you do with it?
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Saturnous on 04 Feb 2010 at 4:26 am #
Find a company which let his best men vanish for a year. Also in many businesses (IT example) you need a continuous learning to because their products changing fast. I would do it in a perfect world where you can find anytime a job.