Price matters far less than fit. A colleague of six months and a manager of twenty years aren't in the same position, and neither is a parent leaving a profession they gave a working life to. These pages start from the person, not from a shelf, and the profession guides go further still: what the job was actually like, and what a leaving gift can truthfully say about it.
The reading, in order
- Retirement gifts for women
- Retirement gifts for men
- For a colleague
- For the boss
- For mum
- For nan
- For dad
- For grandad
- By profession, all twenty
- Buying for someone in particular?
What these pages keep concluding
Read the eight recipient pages and the same conclusion keeps arriving from different directions: what lands is a gift that is about this person, not about retirement in general. Sometimes that is their name, their profession and their years of service set down in type, so the facts exist somewhere permanent. Four of the eight get there through a photograph instead: of them at work, or of the yard, the ward, the classroom or the boat the career actually happened in. Almost nothing on these pages was chosen because it suits someone retiring in the abstract.
And after that
The stage that follows this one is the gift itself: Print, canvas, framed, keepsake or download. What each format physically is, what can be printed on it, and what it costs.