Many pretty-comfortable retired clients (the Boomers) worry that their children (the Millennials), and particularly their grandchildren (the Gen Zs; I know), won’t have the pensions that they do, as final salary schemes are no more; won’t get their state pensions until they’re ancient; and will have to spend what they do get on care. My glass is half-full on this one, having read ‘The One Hundred Year Life’ on hols. Its message is, don’t expect to retire. If you live a long life, you won’t be able to afford to. Find, instead, lots of different jobs you like doing, and keep working. Or win the lottery. Simples.
“Advice firm Almond Financial moves to four-day working week”
The Four Day Week was much discussed and trailed post-COVID, when remote-working looked likely to end strap-hanging commutes for good and laptops on the kitchen table were to become the ’new norm’.