Rethinking Retirement
In the not too distant past, retirement was a very straightforward process for most working people.
The average middle class working professional would spend a substantial number of years (if not their entire working life) working for the same company. When a certain, specified age was reached the employee was then waved off with a pension package that would be sufficient to allow him or her to maintain a decent standard of living as an official retiree.
All very reassuring, right?
Life Can Be Good in a Portfolio Life
This is an interesting article by one of our contributors, Johann Redelinghuys, which encourages us to think in different, innovative ways about work and retirement…
…In London, a retiring chief executive would collect several board appointments, take on the chairmanship of a suitable charity, perhaps do some teaching at a business school, throw in a little travel and golf – and then be satisfied he had created a “portfolio life”.