On my 50th birthday, I will always remember, amongst the card or two I received was a letter from Saga’ who’d managed to find out my age through the wonder of the internet, and were pleased to tell me I now qualified to join my parents and go on holiday with them. It had the opposite effect, I vowed I never would, and never have. I’ve helped, over the years, many clients with their retirement finances and lived in a number of places in which I’ve reduced the average age. My conclusion, which I’ve confirmed to myself recently, is that I mostly enjoy what I do and don’t want to substitute it with Probus, Rotary or the Parish Council as I’ve seen so many do. As previously rehearsed, there are many ’what ifs’, health mental and physical, the ability to be one’s own boss and to do a job which uses more brain than brawn. But the message is, increasingly, if you can and you want to, carry on. It will keep you young. Or perhaps young-er, at least.
“Aegon: Living to 100 is no longer a fantasy, but are we prepared?”
Not sure how many of us actually fantasise about living into our hundreds nor the extent to which we can prepare for it.
