I retired from a full-time, executive role in May 2021. After that I do part-time advisory and board roles.
This is very flexible in its time utilization, light in terms of delivery pressures, and more diverse I terms of the problems to solve. Not to mention more remunerative. I have mentored a start up, started writing more, spending quality time with the family, become fitter and traveling more. Retirement can be a better phase of life. So much more to do and so much more time to do it in. On Sun, 14 Jun 2026 at 11:28 AM, Ingrid via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote: > > On 14 Jun 2026, at 10:32 AM, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 9:04 AM Deepak Misra via Silklist < > [email protected]> wrote: > > I *"retired" *almost half a decade back, but prefer to refer to myself >> as unemployed. I imagine (most probably wrongly) that I will get sympathy >> when people hear this but the bigger point is that internally the word >> retirement has a finality about it tends to influence your thinking >> internally. What does retirement mean anyway? >> > > As I said in the earlier thread, my definition of retirement is to do the > stuff I've always done, without stressing over getting paid for it. > > By that definition, I've been retired for several years. This does require > that your daily needs can be met (if required) through other means, such as > income from investments. > > One interesting learning is that NOT caring too much about getting paid > gives you the ability to say no to assignments which will stress you in > other ways - starting with the ability to recognize such assignments. > > Udhay > > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist > > > I retired i.e. no longer do any work for money, three years ago after a > career that spanned the private sector, the non profit sector, and the > academy. > The greatest boon of retirement for me is having absolute control over my > own time. It was only after I retired that I realised that we lose control > over our time at birth and almost never recover it. > I continue to serve on a number of nonprofit boards, teach in a couple of > programmes for nonprofit leaders, write on the sector, and am currently > writing a book telling the stories of some of India’s most impactful > nonprofit organisations. These engagements permit me to continue to stay in > touch with, and have some influence on, the sector’s evolution. > I’m able to fully indulge my love of live music across genres, to travel > at a more leisurely pace, to support my fiercely independent 86 year old > Mum’s limited needs, and to finally spend time with my husband of 37 years, > a practice we learned during the pandemic. > The joys of being able to choose how, with whom, when, and why one spends > one’s time are, to me, unbounded. > > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >
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