In 2023, on the verge of turning 30 and after seven years of full-time work, Melbourne woman Zara Lim decided that this was the ideal moment for her to retire.

“After being locked down in COVID for so long and working very hard in my early to mid-twenties, I wanted to celebrate the end of my twenties with a career break,” Lim says.

Like many retirees, Lim resigned from her job and used some of her savings to fund travel and tick items off her bucket list.

“I climbed Mount Fuji, road-tripped through the Norwegian fjords, catching a glimpse of Northern Lights, I experienced cherry blossom season in Korea and tried out the digital nomad lifestyle,” she says.

Lim, now 30, is among a growing number of Gen Z and younger Millennial workers who are choosing micro-retirement, a term coined in 2

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