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Neil's Smelling The Roses As Retirement Gets His Approval
Let's Talk
|October 2017
Former Let’s Talk editor Neil Haverson is someone who has successfully made the transition from full-time work to part-time work to retirement. Here he explains all.
It seems only yesterday that I was among those of a certain age saying: “Roll on retirement. I can’t wait to do what I want when I want.”
But as the big day approached my perspectives changed. I remember walking across the office car park thinking: “Soon I won’t be doing this every day”. From the daily routine of a fullon job editing Let’s Talk I was stepping into the unknown.
I held several “bored” meetings with Mrs H. I knew she was concerned. What was I going to do with my time? I had no real hobbies. I’m not one to disappear to the garage and knock up a coffee table.
This story is from the October 2017 edition of Let's Talk.
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