{"id":685741,"date":"2026-01-10T01:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T01:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/685741\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T01:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T01:56:08","slug":"want-to-retire-from-a-soul-sucking-job-here-are-the-financial-factors-to-consider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/685741\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to retire from a soul-sucking job? Here are the financial factors to consider."},"content":{"rendered":"

Published: Jan. 9, 2026 at 2:33\u202fp.m. ET<\/p>\n

In the Help Me Retire<\/a> column, Alessandra Malito answers questions from MarketWatch readers about all aspects of preparing for retirement and enjoying life after careers end.<\/p>\n

This week she responded to a 62-year-old who is fed up with her job and wishes to retire, but who also described a complicated set of personal and financial circumstances. Here is what she should do<\/a> to prepare for retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: Jan. 9, 2026 at 2:33\u202fp.m. ET In the Help Me Retire column, Alessandra Malito answers questions from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[33072,207458,207456,3084,207452,975,51,25910,203150,14362,202004,2825,207457,24797,61690,474,4179,5212,129531,207453,166395,4609,33074,8572,391,207461,2499,5494,153446,285,153449,207459,2443,207455,207460,207454,3653,3741,31167,59762,153535,34880,28415,15254,156670,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-685741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-aapl","9":"tag-analyst-comment","10":"tag-analyst-comment-recommendation","11":"tag-apple-inc","12":"tag-artificial-intelligence-technologies","13":"tag-bond-markets","14":"tag-business","15":"tag-commentary","16":"tag-commentary-opinion","17":"tag-corporate","18":"tag-corporate-industrial-news","19":"tag-debt","20":"tag-debt-bond-markets","21":"tag-equity-markets","22":"tag-exchange-traded-funds","23":"tag-finance","24":"tag-general-news","25":"tag-government-policy","26":"tag-graphics-processing-units","27":"tag-industrial-electrical-equipment","28":"tag-industrial-news","29":"tag-international-relations","30":"tag-nvda","31":"tag-nvidia-corp","32":"tag-opinion","33":"tag-owning","34":"tag-personal-finance","35":"tag-political","36":"tag-political-general-news","37":"tag-politics","38":"tag-politics-international-relations","39":"tag-recommendation","40":"tag-regulation","41":"tag-regulation-government-policy","42":"tag-residential-property-dealing","43":"tag-residential-property-dealing-owning","44":"tag-retirement-planning","45":"tag-sp-500-index","46":"tag-semiconductors","47":"tag-spdr-sp-500-etf-trust","48":"tag-spx","49":"tag-spy","50":"tag-synd","51":"tag-tesla-inc","52":"tag-tsla","53":"tag-uk","54":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}