Remote Working and the End of Retirement
I retired in late 2016. I also retired in November 2018. I am still working. I am 72 next week. That conundrum reflects a likely pattern for the future. The massive increase in working from home and remote working means never having to retire - or at least make it a less appealing prospect. It certainly removes the need for a big bang, 'that's it, I'm off to the golf course' retirement. For me, after 35 years of working from home - essentially in a freelance capacity, I had three main sources of income. Three different main clients with different demands. Once I reached a stage in life where I didn't need quite so much money and found my ability to work long hours was reducing, I decided to step away from being the Editorial Coordinator of Blackstone's Criminal Practice, which took up about 40% of my working time, including an intense batch of activity that usually left me exhausted and (reportedly) difficult to live with. Two years later, I decided I wanted to ...