NW-Bound
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I have stopped work for only 18 months, but I had been working on/off, and part-time at that, for nearly 10 years before that. So, I kind of knew what full retirement would be like before I started.According to study by Robert Atchley, there are 6 or 7 stages of retirement...
They are:
1. Pre-retirement planning
2. Honeymoon, relaxation period
3. Disillusionment
4. Reorientation
5. Retirement Routine
6. Termination of retirement, old age
I think my phases will be like this, where I will be alternating between phases 2 and 5.
1. Pre-retirement [-]planning[/-]
while (forever)
{
2. Honeymoon
[-]3. Disillusionment
4. Reorientation[/-]
5. Retirement Routine
if (terminal illness) break;
}[-]3. Disillusionment
4. Reorientation[/-]
5. Retirement Routine
if (terminal illness) break;
6. Termination of retirement
After 52 days in stage 2, I have no expectations of moving on to stage 3 any time soon (or at all). It helps that I started my retirement with a full list of things to do.
I signed up for a little very part time consultancy as part of my exit arrangement so I would have a transitional period rather than go cold turkey but have already concluded that I don't need it.
Life is good.
Congrats!
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