Reality Check, Can I Retire in Three Years?
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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🗓️ 3 June 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
I'm 55 and would like to retire in three years. I don't really like my job, or I should say I have a hard time not letting my work take too much of my emotional energy and attention. Can I do it?
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| 0:48.8 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Show, it's Friday, June 3rd, and today we're going to get a |
| 0:54.1 | Labour Department report, and it will likely see a slowdown in job growth no more, |
| 1:00.4 | half a million months. I mean, maybe I can be surprised, but I think it's probably going to be |
| 1:05.1 | closer to 300,000. That's what the experts are saying. Unemployment rate could drop back down |
| 1:11.1 | to that 50-year low of 3.5%. That's where we were in February of 2020, if you can believe it. |
| 1:18.4 | And yeah, we're going to see what the wage part is. I think those wages are always very |
| 1:23.9 | interesting. Wage growth is rising, not as fast, of course, as the inflation rate, |
| 1:30.8 | but tons of data suggesting that, you know, if you just state your job, you're not going to |
| 1:36.1 | get as big a raise. That's okay. Maybe for many of you, you think it's better just to get |
| 1:41.8 | different benefits. Maybe you'd rather work from home for a couple of days, rather than |
| 1:45.8 | start a new job and just go for the dollars. Whatever it is that you think you want from your job, |
| 1:52.1 | just negotiate for it. Anyway, let's see. What should we do, Mark? Should we do some emails? |
| 2:00.2 | How about that? This one's from Anne. Anne writes, I'm 55, and I want to retire in a few years. I |
| 2:06.7 | don't really like my job. What I really should say is I have a hard time not letting my work take |
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