Semi-Retirement: Benefits of Working “Retirement Jobs”

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A normal retirement can easily last a couple of decades, and an early retirement could lead to half-a-lifetime remaining once some leaves their primary vocation.

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The Leisure Freak clearly covets his leisure time, but he did work numerous jobs after leaving his career job.

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Looking back over my early retirement, there was a lot to love about my scaled-down retirement jobs.

Benefits of Working “Retirement Jobs”

What some people refer to as semi-retirement, I happily called what I was going to do “retiring early and often.”

I looked forward to accepting opportunities for just as long as I wanted to do it. That, and also gain the life flexibility I had sacrificed over the decades while serving the corporate world system.

Done right, being open to taking on scaled-down retirement jobs has only upsides. Everyone will have to decide what “done right” looks like for them.

I had established my retirement funding to cover things regardless of my working.

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