{"id":468945,"date":"2026-02-11T22:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/468945\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:46:08","slug":"ready-for-retirement-key-signs-youre-financially-and-mentally-prepared-to-finally-give-up-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/468945\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready for retirement? Key signs you\u2019re financially and mentally prepared to finally give up working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 12, 2026 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>Last June Graeme Steele and his wife Tracey embarked on a 15-week experiment. They would drive around Australia to test the theory that Steele was ready for, and would enjoy, a retired life of freedom and travel.<\/p>\n<p>The former Westpac executive had spent 42 years in banking; he was \u201ccooked\u201d. So the couple bought a campervan and set off. After three weeks on the road, Steele had his answer: he liked this life. A lot.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 12, 2026 \u2013 5.00am Last June Graeme Steele and his wife Tracey embarked on a 15-week experiment.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":["post-468945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}