Should you take a phased retirement or just rip th…

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I think it's definitely worth everyone considering a potential phased retirement, where you go part-time, then you consult, and then you move out of the workforce. I don't know that it would have been the best thing for me. It would have been less jarring, but I don't know if it would have been less, you know, painful. You know the old saying, better to just rip the band-aid off. There's actually been studies done on this. And like, there's a study done in Australia where they use an acronym for it, which is S-bar and F-bar, slow band-aid removal and fast band-aid removal. And the study concluded, and other studies have as well, that removing a bandage quickly results in lower perceived pain overall. And I think for me, it would have been less jarring, but probably more painful overall if I would have done the phased. I don't know if it's the best route, but it might be the right route for other people.