Living The Semi-Retired Life: What In The World Is Social Jetlag?

I come across super interesting academic research related to retirement, specifically two of our main going concerns—semi-retirement and working in retirement. Like so much scholarly work, the article I will review today contains a mix of obvious conclusions, useful insight and practical extrapolations you and I can draw based on the prevailing themes that underlie Living The Semi-Retired Life.

Today’s article—

When I saw it, my initial thought was, what in the hell is social jetlag?

In a minute, we define social jetlag, review the obvious and explore why it does or could matter to the things we care about.

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So, one of the most interesting things I learned in May.

Social jetlag.

Editor’s note: I got confused when I wrote this so forgive me if it goes astray. (For the record, I’m the writer and editor and I stole that last sentence from a famous song).