Is slowing down at 45 really possible? Photo by Max Vigato.
Live better, work less… many strive for it, few achieve it. Between financial independence and time for yourself, imagination and strategy, how do you solve the equation for the second part of your career? The views of experts.
Let’s remember the 2010s and this dream that was sold in the uniform of white-cap sneakers of startups; if you haven’t retired by 45, you’ve wasted your life. A raving of the ultra-rich, obscene in the context of the current upheaval surrounding the retirement age debate. Not only ! Beyond this aspiration of a minority working in tech or finance (a small community no bigger than Loto winners), we can read the questioning of the value of work as an end in itself in the context of a global social and environmental crisis.
The Fire Movement in the US was born out of this desire to slow down the fifties. Its boss, Peter Adeni, nicknamed Mr. Money Mustache after his blog, was among the first to extol the virtues of early retirement in 2011. This former Canadian computer engineer, immigrated to the United States, a father of a child, without a tenant or…
Source: Le Figaro
