ANNOUNCING: Life After Work
Retirement and aging are our specialties (with a sprinkling of humor, activism, and fun)
Life After Work is a Medium publication about all things retirement. It’s about people, places, experiences, finance, and love. It’s about fascinating stories, engaging activities, and personal challenges. It’s a resource that will help you understand, prepare for, and enjoy a meaningful and rewarding retirement.
Everyone is welcome. Everyone wins.
This publication is for and about you. If you’re retired, read on. If you’re planning to retire someday, this is perfect for you. If you want ideas, facts, opinions, and stories about retirement, you’ve come to the right place. Even if you just want to watch, we encourage you to join our community.
Retirement is Security, Happiness, and Health: “SHH”
- Security is knowing you’re emotionally and financially prepared
- Happiness is belonging to a community of people just like you
- Health is your ticket to a long and rewarding retirement
Our goal is to provide information, examples, and advice that will help people of all ages to be safe, happy, and healthy in retirement. Planning can start in your 20’s or your 90’s. Age is just a number! No matter where you are in life, this publication will help you make it just a little bit better.
Connecting
Join us! Click the ‘Follow’ button so you’ll see helpful retirement articles featured more often. Clap for the articles you like so we know which ones interest you the most. Follow the authors, ask questions, and share your comments.
When you’re an active member of the Life After Work community, everyone wins.
Write for us — share your wisdom, challenges, stories, and humor
Would you like to be a contributing writer? Respond to this article below with your Medium name and a note explaining why you’d like to write for Life After Work.
Respond to this article with your Medium name (@name) and a comment about why you’d like to be a Life After Work contributor.
Join us if you’d like to share, mentor, and learn. If you’re selling products and services, you’ll want to find a different publication.
Submitting
When your article is ready, click on the three dots in the upper right corner of your screen, click on “Add to publication,” and choose “Life After Work.” Don’t forget to hit “Submit.”
You’ll either be published or hear back from us within 72 hours.
Let’s have some fun! Which type are you?
50,000,000 people in the US are retired. 10,000 more retire every day. Every single one of us has a different story. What’s yours?
“I plan to retire rich”
“I hate my job”
“I won’t retire in elegance like some of my friends.”
“I’m retiring early, financially independent at age 30”
“I’ll work till I drop”
“I got sick and had to quit”
“My company laid me off and I can’t get another job”
“My mom is ill, and I had to retire to care for her”
“I have no idea what I’d do if I were to retire”
“As soon as I hit 62 I’m out of here”
“We have no money but we’ll make it work somehow”
Topics for articles — tell us what you like
This publication is for you. Tell us what you care about in the comments below and we’ll work on them. If a topic interests you it will certainly be of interest to others.
- Social Security and Medicare
- When to retire
- What to do in retirement
- Financial insights and planning
- Travel
- Healthcare
- How to give back
- Retirement demographics
- What is everybody else doing
- How much do other people live on
- Sex in retirement
- Where should you retire
- Investments in retirement
- Loneliness
- Making money during retirement
- Retiree profiles and personal stories
- Sickness
- End of life planning
