Why not be a mentor in your retirement?

Many people look forward to their golden years as a time to relax, travel, spend time with families and friends, and to enjoy life after work. But sometimes the transition from working to retirement can be a challenge for some.

Often, seniors feel they no longer have a purpose once they don’t have the daily responsibilities of a job. Mentoring offers a purpose that makes a difference in the lives of others. You might just find that mentoring can fill a gap especially as you are adjusting to your change in lifestyle.

Mentoring can be helping someone find a job or change in career, teaching them a new skill, but can also be a way of giving confidence to someone who is scrambling to find their place in life. Sometimes it is a way of helping them gain confidence and it can be just what they need to be guided down the right pathway.

I came across a young person looking for a job the other day, keen to find an outside occupation, I suggested while they were looking, they could do some volunteering at a local organic garden. An opportunity to make contacts and really find out if this sort of job is what they were after.

Mentoring can be good for you as it works in many ways, one by helping you maintain your cognitive skills by keeping your brain active, it can be fun and improve your quality of life and what satisfaction you will get to see the person you have mentored move on in life.

Life is short, and retirement can be a rather daunting prospect for some people. I feel most of us will know when the time is right to retire and a good way to slowly ease ourselves into retirement is to slowly cut down your hours at your present work.

If you are considering mentoring, you could consider giving your time feely to mentor or you could even turn it into a low-key customdesigned job, so you can continue to do what you love, while making a real impact on the future of your industry, which still could be financially rewarding.