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?
Retirement: What Will You Miss about Your Job?
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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