A Mini-Retirement Now Instead of Post-Career
Dana Saperstein quit her marketing job and spent six months hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. CREDIT: Dana Saperstein

A Mini-Retirement Now Instead of Post-Career

Welcome back. In this edition we're exploring the lure of taking mini-retirements earlier in your career, the new flashpoint in the corporate DEI wars, and how companies are quietly resetting pay for new hires.

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Breaking Every Retirement Rule To Be Off Now, Not Later

Aaron Asai and Liana Best bought a van for their road trip. PHOTO: Aaron Asai and Liana Best

More workers in their 20s and 30s are tempted to borrow years of freedom from their future selves to enjoy some of their retirement while they are still young. Unlike followers of the FIRE movement, short for “financial independence, retire early,” those seeking micro-retirements say they aren’t looking for a shortcut to retirement by saving aggressively and living frugally.

Their early retirement comes in the form of shorter breaks for travel or other pursuits.

  • How Some People Work Mini-Retirements Into Their Career (Listen )


Bosses Are Quietly Trying To Reset Worker Pay Levels

ILLUSTRATION: WSJ, iStock (3)

Pay for many white-collar recruits shrank last year, and now wages for new hires in construction, manufacturing, food and other blue-collar sectors appear to be ebbing too, according to an analysis of millions of jobs posted on ZipRecruiter.com.

Bosses are finding ways to pay workers less, saying the era of overpaying for talent is over.


Too Timid to Say You’re Quitting? This Service Can Help?

Shinji Tanimoto, CEO of Albatross, offers a service translated as, ‘I can’t do it anymore.’ CREDIT: Miho Inada/WSJ

Amid a labor shortage in Japan, some employers are rebuffing resignations, and this famously polite country has a lot of people who hate confrontation.

A new cottage industry has sprung up to help workers bust free by quitting on their behalf.


Elsewhere in The Wall Street Journal

Check out some of the Journal’s other best-read stories on work life and the office over the past week:

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  • A Gay-Rights Index Become a Flashpoint in the Corporate DEI Wars (Read )
  • The Office Therapist Will See You Now (Read )


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Angel Sudario

Information Management Consultant | Solutions Architect, All Things Leadership in Data Technology

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Let me add to my post. Vacation is great to take and employers way to give employees mini retirements. For a week or two now and then. Everyone should take it, it’s a wonderful thing.

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Maia Daniela

Geopolitical expert. Strategical Manager| Specialising in strategical planning, economics, politics, history, business consultancy.

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I mini retired for 3 years, after selling up my old business. It was weird, not working, so I went and studied what I originally wanted to do as a career after high school, and studied photography. Every weekend, I flew or did road trips, photographing.

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