Who is this program for?  The concept of retirement may be so far into your future that it’s not even on your radar (let alone on your agenda). Alternatively, you’re thinking (are are being made to think) of retirement, but regard the prospect of not working as anathema. Or you’re uncomfortable about not working (with the respect that working brings) and with being regarded as a FIP* or a PIP*.  Instead, you want to do more of what you haven’t been able to do before.

How does the Portfoliofication program benefit you?  This is not a program for older people.  You should start preparing in your 30s for what you want to be able to do when you’re older.  So this program is about planning and getting, in advance, a portfolio of skills, experiences and connections, and designing a way of living and working that you choose to implement when others think you should retire and you choose to do otherwise.  The effect is to engender in you the opposite of retirementality.  There are 6 main elements to the program: (i) long term planning; (ii) how to carry on working, but differently; (iii) how to carry on working, but for yourself, rather than for someone else; (iv) how to juggle work with community activities / education / friends / fun / other stuff; (v) how to structure your (working) day differently; and (vi) how to deal with others’ attitudes. This program helps you test, explore and design  a non-retirement that works for you on your terms.

* a Formerly Important Person or a Previously Important Person…