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ASD-friendly semi-retirement ideas?

I'm done with Christmas Cards

Just wondering, as I expect many here are in a similar position (decades of professional career behind you, but totally fatigued and wanting out)?

I would dearly love to retire from the big corporate world that I'm currently in. In about 3 years I'll have the option of taking my company pension, but it won't be much compared to my salary (maybe 1/4?) so I'll need to find a source of income. If I could re-engineer my life, downsize, take my pension, and do something else, I wonder if I could make it work?

The question I want to ask here is: what jobs would be good for ASD people wanting to slip quietly into retirement? I've thought of the ones below....

  • Delivery driver (+ most of the day alone, - having to knock on doors, go to dodgy places, get time & targets pressure from management, long hours)
  • Driving instructor (+ work alone with one other person, - the admin side & negotiating with customers when it goes wrong)
  • Consultant (+ keeps brain alive, - being "owned" by the company you contract with, travel)
  • Work in a café (+ chance for "nice" interactions, - grumpy customers, probably won't pay enough)
  • Something working from home? (You'd think by now WFH consultancy would be a thing? Coding for game developers for e.g.?)

What are your thoughts? What are your own plans?

:-)

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  • Some good ideas there. If I were in the UK and retired I think I would probably try to get some sort of outdoor work, perhaps of a voluntary nature. but things don't work like that where I live.

    I have done a lot of different jobs in my time; some of which I was very unsuited to. I was diagnosed over 60 years old, having spent about 25 years working abroad teaching English. I actually self-realised my diagnosis about two years before I retired, and decided at that point I was totally fed up with teaching and wanted to do something more physical.

    I have now been diagnosed about two years, and have been doing a mixture of proof-reading and DIY at home. That actually seems to suit me quite well, but I live abroad in a country where expats are only allowed to engage in a very limited list of occupations. It occurs to me that I would like to pick up more work from other countries to get around this limitation, but I am very wary of getting involved in gig economy work, which I believe is very exploitative. It seems that even if I do online work, I would really prefer to work with an organisation with which I have some contact, as I realise that I have a very lonely existence and need to have more of a social relationship with the people for/with whom I work.

  • in reply to Senor

    Thanks Senior Moment, proof reading sounds like something that could be a thread in the mix.......

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