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AIIP Blog – Retirement Series

By Jan Knight

Editor’s note: This is part of our “Retirement” series to address challenges and opportunities many of our members facing retirement are experiencing.

Off-ramp to Where Exactly?

A couple of years ago, I mentioned to a client that I was starting to think about retirement, but I wasn’t sure how to approach it as an independent consultant. What were the pros and cons of ‘going cold turkey’ versus just slowing down? Would my personality allow me to “just slow down”? She coined the phrase “off-ramp” that day at breakfast, and I’ve been using it ever since.

Slowing Down on the Path to Retirement

By Gillian Clinton

Editors note: This is part of our “Retirement” series to address challenges and opportunities many of our members facing retirement are experiencing.

My path to retirement has been a slow and gentle one.

I enjoy learning – I have degrees in Aerospace Engineering, History, and Information Studies – and, while I no longer want to invest the amount of time required to obtain another degree, I haven’t wanted to stop working and learning completely. To that end, I have treasured the wide variety of projects in which I have been involved over the past 30 or more years because they have often provided me with niche learning opportunities.

You Just Retired: There’s Just One Last project … For YOU

Editors note: This is part of our “Retirement” series to address challenges and opportunities many of our members facing retirement are experiencing.

By Ulla de Stricker

Chances are, the last several decades of your life were whirlwinds of client work, volunteer work, family activities, and much more. There would have been no chance whatsoever for you to deal with all the personal projects you kept meaning to do. But you did have one consolation: “Oh, once I retire or at least reduce my client work significantly, I’ll have lots of time!”.