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We never want to RETIRE!

‘I’m just getting started’

Helen Higgins, 65, from West Sussex, but now living in Sydney, Australia, works as an ‘online grandmother’.

When my children, Mark, 49, Lauren, 36, and Ian, 34, were little, I ran a home day-care centre before getting a job as an accountant. I was good with numbers, but I didn’t wake up eager to work on someone’s balance sheet. So when my firm’s accounts department moved cities in February 2020, I saw a golden opportunity. At 65, I could have retired, but I still had so much to give.

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