Retirement’s Revolving Door: Why Some Workers Can’t Call It Quits
In his view, Tim Franson utterly failed at retirement.
After 20 years as a high-ranking vice president at drugmaker Eli Lilly, Franson and his wife, Chris, a successful real estate agent, thought they were quietly retiring nearly a decade ago to Bonita Springs, Fla.
For the first month or so, Franson said, he mostly slept. He wasn’t depressed, just mentally and physically exhausted.
Then, “I went crazy,” said Franson. “I’m not very good at sitting around.”
He quickly found himself back at work part time after a friend at a small pharmaceutical company asked him for strategic advice. “Things snowballed from there.”
Today, Franson, 66, consults and works about four days a week, while serving on two for-profit boards and two nonprofit boards.
Welcome to the land of the un-retired — folks who thought they were leaving the work world only to return because they sorely missed something about it, besides the money. These people in their 50s through 80s retired on pensions or savings — or both — but ultimately woke up to the fact there’s more to life than watching Florida sunsets.
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