{"id":403009,"date":"2026-01-09T23:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403009\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T23:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:49:06","slug":"want-to-retire-from-a-soul-sucking-job-here-are-the-financial-factors-to-consider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403009\/","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":403010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[205876,205735,205729,5067,31340,64,63,59536,99,8612,206408,31359,31342,13110,213960,87165,52284,186,482,35315,40182,213958,31360,40189,10254,5063,1721,213962,184,185,21298,31345,84,40191,158106,16570,40186,213961,213959,6541,1063,40178,65618,37936,30268,31350,5064,84321],"class_list":["post-403009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-aapl","tag-analyst-comment","tag-analyst-comment-recommendation","tag-apple-inc","tag-artificial-intelligence-technologies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bond-markets","tag-business","tag-commentary","tag-commentary-opinion","tag-corporate","tag-corporate-industrial-news","tag-debt","tag-debt-bond-markets","tag-equity-markets","tag-exchange-traded-funds","tag-finance","tag-general-news","tag-government-policy","tag-graphics-processing-units","tag-industrial-electrical-equipment","tag-industrial-news","tag-international-relations","tag-nvda","tag-nvidia-corp","tag-opinion","tag-owning","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-politics","tag-politics-international-relations","tag-recommendation","tag-regulation","tag-regulation-government-policy","tag-residential-property-dealing","tag-residential-property-dealing-owning","tag-retirement-planning","tag-sp-500-index","tag-semiconductors","tag-spdr-sp-500-etf-trust","tag-spx","tag-spy","tag-synd","tag-tesla-inc","tag-tsla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}