Retirement planning is just as important as career planning. Especially the non-financial aspects of retirement.
If you’ve done your career planning well, your retirement planning will be lots easier.
What is it that you most like about working?
That it gets you out of the house?
That you’re able to make a difference to your company/organization or to the individuals you serve?
That you’re part of a highly functional team?
Do you need to have goals to keep you going?
If you need to stay busy or intellectually stimulated or help others, how will these needs be met?
How will you need to change or adapt?
Rodney still maintains friendships with former colleagues even after more than ten years of retirement. He needs frequent contact with a variety of people and knows he must make that happen himself. And for him, his considerable efforts are worthwhile because of the rewards.
His former position provided that variety, and now he is in charge of finding it on his own. When he travels, he visits former colleagues who’ve retired to other locations. He maintains email contact as well, and shares invitations and pertinent information whenever he can. Even though he’s retired, he’s networking all the time, although he probably wouldn’t call it that himself.
Which aspects of your current job are most satisfying to you?
What will give you the satisfaction in retirement that you found in your work?
What will you do to ensure you get it when you’ve left your job?
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What Will Keep You at Your Job?
What makes staying at your current job worthwhile? Interesting work? Being surrounded by people who are good at what they do as well as conscientious and committed? Are you tethered by the health insurance or the paycheck? Each of us has different reasons for staying at any particular job.
Grace’s son George seemed to have a habit of leaving jobs. He’d stay a year or maybe two, then he’d move on. At first, Grace was concerned that he didn’t stay put, like she and her husband had done, having lifelong careers themselves. Then she asked George why he seemed to be hopping from one job to another. His response surprised her. He said he stayed as long as he was still learning something new. Once he’d learned all he could at one job, it was time for him to move on to another one. After that, Grace was no longer concerned.
What are some reasons you may have left a previous job? Did you make the right decision then? What’s keeping you right where you are? Are you still happy to be there?
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