The Most Important Project You’ll Ever Plan

Julie Clark is a Project Manager at Audio Acoustics Inc.

  Career Development  

Retirement. It is the “golden egg” many pursue to end a successful career. Statistically speaking, the baby boomer generation is one of the largest segments of the U.S. population, and will continue to grow over the next 20 years as increasing numbers of boomers will retire each year.

I, like many of my cohorts, are eyeing retirement with both excitement and anticipation for the next phase in life, one that will open up more time for doing more of what we love. My 20-plus-year career in project management has provided me with multiple learning opportunities and introduced me to countless people who have enriched my life both personally and professionally.

More recently, the introduction and adoption of artificial intelligence has and will continue to be a game-changer in our profession as more PMs adapt and apply AI to project management processes. I for one am torn, as I’d like to experience the shift in this new and innovative tool to manage projects, yet my eye is on retirement in the not-so-distant future.

One thing many of us neglect to think about with any intentionality is our retirement years. We spend our time moving through our careers and personal lives, planning and managing our retirement accounts, thinking about downsizing our living spaces, even planning how to downsize and adjust our budgets to our (likely lower) retirement income.

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