{"id":279434,"date":"2026-02-11T22:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/279434\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:52:07","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\/nz\/279434\/","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":279435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":["post-279434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279434","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=279434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}