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Let’s Retire The Word Retirement
You can embark on a life transition at any age…and it doesn’t have to be a one-way ticket.
If I ran the world, we would retire the word “retirement.” We would talk about shifting gears in our working life. We might talk about stepping back from work to do something meaningful for a period of time, which could be forever or a finite period of time.
Life changes could happen at any age.
You can shift gears in your thirties, forties, or fifties. You can take time off in your twenties and thirties. You can decide to start a business when you’re ninety.
Of course, some people reach a point when they’re physically, mentally, or emotionally unable to work. That could happen at any age. The US military calls this experience “medical retirement.”
I like that. If we’re going to use the R-word at all, let’s qualify.
“Been there, done that retirement.”
“Fed up with crazy people retirement.”
“Ready to travel retirement.”
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