What type of retiree will you be? Part 3

What’s your retirement style? I've identified four different types of retiree - Activists , Individualists , Specialists and Traditionalists .

Specialists are the enthusiasts, the devotees, the people who have a continuing (often lifelong) passion for their work - they love what they do so much that they'll never retire and they'll just keep on working until they drop. A great example would be someone like British actress and national treasure, Liz Smith, who famously played the role of Nana in ‘The Royle Family ’ and who, at the age of 86, appeared in ‘Lark Rise to Candleford’.

Other examples of Specialists include Michelangelo who designed St Peter's cupola at the age of 83, or Picasso who continued to produce prodigious numbers of paintings and copperplate etchings until the end of his life in 1973.

Less famous examples include Dolly Saville, a UK woman who, at 95, is the oldest barmaid in the world, Jim Webber, who worked as a gardener until the age of 104 and 103 year old Buster Martin who works as a van cleaner for a plumbing firm in London.

Still not recognised your own retirement type (or the type of retiree you aspire to be)? Take a look at the other articles in this series to see if you can find a retirement type that's a better fit for you.