How to retire in slow motion
Posted
Nov 13 2007, 02:39 PM
by
Karen Datko
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Retiring at age 65 (or 66 or 67, depending on what year you were born) is "so 1990s," The Dough Roller writes. Why wait until then if you can ease into it? he asks, and introduces the concept of slow-motion retirement. Start by working those 40 hours in four days to have a three-day weekend, and then begin a transition to telecommuting. Eventually shrink your work to part time. DR notes that some people have to be at work to work. ("Peyton Manning has that kind of job. So does a firefighter," he observes.) You also may find it difficult to earn less money or to convince your boss to allow you to work from home. He proposes solutions for those potential problems, and recommends you read his companion post, "5 steps to achieving the 24-hour workweek (which beats the 4-hour workweek)."
