If you’ve worked a five-day week (and in many cases much more) for the last 40+ years, suddenly going to an unstructured lifestyle can be a jolt, to say the least. Too often, the reality is that individuals experience boredom in retirement.
Over the last few years my business has been helping a lot of people who are coming up to ‘retirement’ – I use the word retirement cautiously, because the last thing they actually want to do is retire.
The big issue for people in unretirement is that they have all these skills built up over a successful career – and then, what? Surely you can help someone with your insights and expertise?
If you’ve worked at senior level, you’re likely to have built a good network and spent a fair amount of time and effort on maintaining contacts and relationships. It’s these contacts that will help you to unlock valuable opportunities in unretirement.
Today, 22 May 2018, we fully launch Next-Up to fill a gap for ‘unretired’ people – and those set to face ‘unretirement’ in a few years. So what are the issues, where is the gap and how can we help?
After years in the corporate or professional world, it can be difficult to think about and plan ‘what next?’ Most of those leaving an executive career talk about not having had the headspace to think about what they will do, even though they feel they should have.
This business, Next-Up, started with a lot of directors coming to us for help in writing their LinkedIn profiles – and often their CVs too.
Retirees care more about feeling relevant than golf or grandchildren, according to new research.
In our opinion, there’s no ‘one-size-fits-all’ answer to the question of what to do in unretirement. For some time now, we’ve been helping people to find purpose in, and enjoy, their ‘unretirement’ which usually involves using their skills in a new way such as becoming a consultant, starting a business, becoming a trustee or mentoring others.
