My wife and I are in our early to mid fifties and currently embracing our prime time. We have a good balance between living now and saving for the future. In the past twelve months we changed to a 9 day fortnight at work. Bought a camper trailer for long weekends and extended road trips away. Traveled to Europe last year and this month we’ll head off on another European vacation with my extended family. Sure we could reach retirement sooner if we didn’t buy the camper or travel to Europe but we appreciate the value our health fitness and mobility adds to these experiences. Workplace burnout and recent loss of good friends in their prime time motivated us to take action and stop dreaming. All going well our financial trajectory will allow us more choice before we hit sixty. Looking forward to your next book Bec.
Definitely in the third stage, well starting August . Your course helped me make the decision to move from a 7 day fortnight to a 4 day fortnight which included giving up my workspace and moving my business, not that easy in your 60’s but will mean l can now keep going indefinitely without huge overheads. My new life awaits.
Hi Bec I am so grateful for your podcasts and your book. Have ordered the new one. I am 62 and still working fulltime but have been thinking about what the next 20 years should look like and you are helping me define that. I have started working on my fitness; learning Italian and generally looking into what a part time work scenario could look like. Asking myself what is something that brings me joy and is something I could change to? I have been in full time all consuming finance mgr role and I'm over it ♥️
I am about to turn 47 and my partner 65 will be fully retired at the end of this year. We have read your book and it helped us set up well for this stage. Whilst he is thankfully in excellent health we need to make the most of the coming years enjoying experiences together. I am looking at moving to a 9 day fortnight then gradually dropping more days to make room for more time together. Very much looking forward to the new book 🤩
I'm turning 49 in a few months and have just managed to semi retire. Your book is a great encouragement and source of information as to what I had to work out before I made the leap from full time employment to living life on my own terms! Can't wait to read your new book soon. Thank you.
At 55, i thought I was ready to take early retirement—but life had other plans. I was severely burned out, and happily left my job to move to SE Asia where my husband was working. Whilst there, I dabbled in remote work as well as some local projects but also spent alot of time relaxing & travelling in the region. We returned home to be closer to our kids and jumped right back into my old job before the pandemic hit and my sector basically closed down. I was in/out of work projects for months and then when things reopened, I was done with my employer for good.
By that stage we had bought our future home in a small coastal village, so moved up there full time. Eventually took a 3-day-a-week remote role that was very low stakes with little stress and lower pay. Was a bit boring TBH, but I feel like I delivered some great success for the organisation. More importantly has allowed me to slowly remove myself from corporate life after a 40+ year career and go out on a high.
Now, at 60, I’m officially retiring next month—finally! My husband has been on a similar trajectory, slowly reducing to part time over past 2 years and taking LSL to retire in Dec.
I wouldn't have called it prime time, but looking back I can see it kind of was. I know I am glad I had that time to experiment with various ways of working and living. I feel ready both financially and emotionally for retirement.
Am in my late 50’s, still f/t in a busy corporate role…..& very ready to look at alternatives to give my nervous system peace, joy & space to create new adventures for the next 30 years. Starting to dream what a 2 day ish a week role at a different employer will look like combined with more travel, hiking, tennis, play etc
We are 62 and 68 and retired with approximately $500k between us in super, own our home and no debt. The interest we earn in less than we draw per annum but will most likely go the distance. We are living comfortably on $6k per month made up of $4k draw and my husbands part pension.
I feel alot of articles, comments and questions focus on living off your interest. I wonder why? Are people too focussed on leaving behind a big lump of cash in their estate? I don’t see an issue in using the money you have in super wisely over the years and not stressing about it. We travel alot while we can! Who knows what’s ahead? If super gets low there is still the option to downsize.
Like Tracy below, your insights are stimulating and I look forward to each one. At 67, I’m have been technically retired for 7 years, but continue to volunteer for the not for profit in my specialty area (aphasia after stroke). I therefore think I’m in the 3rd stage of prime time even though I’m retired. I’ll miss your book launch because I’ll be on a small boat cruise in the Kimberley’s having another epic adventure. Congratulations on another soon-to-be best selling book.
My wife and I are in our early to mid fifties and currently embracing our prime time. We have a good balance between living now and saving for the future. In the past twelve months we changed to a 9 day fortnight at work. Bought a camper trailer for long weekends and extended road trips away. Traveled to Europe last year and this month we’ll head off on another European vacation with my extended family. Sure we could reach retirement sooner if we didn’t buy the camper or travel to Europe but we appreciate the value our health fitness and mobility adds to these experiences. Workplace burnout and recent loss of good friends in their prime time motivated us to take action and stop dreaming. All going well our financial trajectory will allow us more choice before we hit sixty. Looking forward to your next book Bec.
Definitely in the third stage, well starting August . Your course helped me make the decision to move from a 7 day fortnight to a 4 day fortnight which included giving up my workspace and moving my business, not that easy in your 60’s but will mean l can now keep going indefinitely without huge overheads. My new life awaits.
Hi Bec I am so grateful for your podcasts and your book. Have ordered the new one. I am 62 and still working fulltime but have been thinking about what the next 20 years should look like and you are helping me define that. I have started working on my fitness; learning Italian and generally looking into what a part time work scenario could look like. Asking myself what is something that brings me joy and is something I could change to? I have been in full time all consuming finance mgr role and I'm over it ♥️
I am about to turn 47 and my partner 65 will be fully retired at the end of this year. We have read your book and it helped us set up well for this stage. Whilst he is thankfully in excellent health we need to make the most of the coming years enjoying experiences together. I am looking at moving to a 9 day fortnight then gradually dropping more days to make room for more time together. Very much looking forward to the new book 🤩
I'm turning 49 in a few months and have just managed to semi retire. Your book is a great encouragement and source of information as to what I had to work out before I made the leap from full time employment to living life on my own terms! Can't wait to read your new book soon. Thank you.
At 55, i thought I was ready to take early retirement—but life had other plans. I was severely burned out, and happily left my job to move to SE Asia where my husband was working. Whilst there, I dabbled in remote work as well as some local projects but also spent alot of time relaxing & travelling in the region. We returned home to be closer to our kids and jumped right back into my old job before the pandemic hit and my sector basically closed down. I was in/out of work projects for months and then when things reopened, I was done with my employer for good.
By that stage we had bought our future home in a small coastal village, so moved up there full time. Eventually took a 3-day-a-week remote role that was very low stakes with little stress and lower pay. Was a bit boring TBH, but I feel like I delivered some great success for the organisation. More importantly has allowed me to slowly remove myself from corporate life after a 40+ year career and go out on a high.
Now, at 60, I’m officially retiring next month—finally! My husband has been on a similar trajectory, slowly reducing to part time over past 2 years and taking LSL to retire in Dec.
I wouldn't have called it prime time, but looking back I can see it kind of was. I know I am glad I had that time to experiment with various ways of working and living. I feel ready both financially and emotionally for retirement.
Am in my late 50’s, still f/t in a busy corporate role…..& very ready to look at alternatives to give my nervous system peace, joy & space to create new adventures for the next 30 years. Starting to dream what a 2 day ish a week role at a different employer will look like combined with more travel, hiking, tennis, play etc
We are 62 and 68 and retired with approximately $500k between us in super, own our home and no debt. The interest we earn in less than we draw per annum but will most likely go the distance. We are living comfortably on $6k per month made up of $4k draw and my husbands part pension.
I feel alot of articles, comments and questions focus on living off your interest. I wonder why? Are people too focussed on leaving behind a big lump of cash in their estate? I don’t see an issue in using the money you have in super wisely over the years and not stressing about it. We travel alot while we can! Who knows what’s ahead? If super gets low there is still the option to downsize.
Like Tracy below, your insights are stimulating and I look forward to each one. At 67, I’m have been technically retired for 7 years, but continue to volunteer for the not for profit in my specialty area (aphasia after stroke). I therefore think I’m in the 3rd stage of prime time even though I’m retired. I’ll miss your book launch because I’ll be on a small boat cruise in the Kimberley’s having another epic adventure. Congratulations on another soon-to-be best selling book.