{"id":225721,"date":"2026-01-09T22:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225721\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T22:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:20:06","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\/nz\/225721\/","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":225722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[127744,127471,127466,5892,89153,9954,138,16103,128161,44547,47880,5399,133993,8679,63428,246,3717,18389,127739,129811,47884,16971,111,139,57667,5742,69,2114,3178,244,245,18154,47881,135,134868,50844,640,127464,134869,134867,2532,2710,8186,35813,7417,19590,19201,19814,21979],"class_list":{"0":"post-225721","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-new-zealand","31":"tag-newzealand","32":"tag-nvda","33":"tag-nvidia-corp","34":"tag-nz","35":"tag-opinion","36":"tag-owning","37":"tag-personal-finance","38":"tag-personalfinance","39":"tag-political","40":"tag-political-general-news","41":"tag-politics","42":"tag-politics-international-relations","43":"tag-recommendation","44":"tag-regulation","45":"tag-regulation-government-policy","46":"tag-residential-property-dealing","47":"tag-residential-property-dealing-owning","48":"tag-retirement-planning","49":"tag-sp-500-index","50":"tag-semiconductors","51":"tag-spdr-sp-500-etf-trust","52":"tag-spx","53":"tag-spy","54":"tag-synd","55":"tag-tesla-inc","56":"tag-tsla"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}