Alan Barrett
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389 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 25 Jun
Alan Barrett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it's one of these things where everybody thinks they're going to be happier when they retire, but you don't actually see it in the data.
OK, most people, it's probably pretty similar.
And if it's the case that people have been bumped into retirement, you actually see... Which they are in Ireland a lot when they're 66.
Absolutely, and you see significant downturns.
So retirement is one of those interesting things in life that everybody then sort of really looks forward to.
But it seems that the actuality is not quite as good as the expectation.
There's the notion of gradual retirement, which...
The nicest way I've ever heard it put to me is that retirement really should be a process rather than an event.
I mean, that's item one.
The other thing which I've heard said on occasions is that people should have gap years in their 60s.
OK, so the idea was that you sort of step back from your big, chunky, high pressure job, maybe in your early 60s, go backpacking in Thailand or whatever like that.
And then come back and maybe take a job which is a sort of step back from the real pressure.
That's another very good way of putting it.
But all those benefits of work which are in social connection, which we understand much more of, partly actually through TILDA.
I mean, one of the things that has come out of the TILDA study is the very serious health impacts of loneliness and social isolation.
One way of keeping yourself young and active and engaged and all of those sort of things is social connection.
Going and inflict yourself on your colleagues.
Well, there you go.
I hear everybody's looking forward to you.
We'll have to wait and see.
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