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At 57, he assumed a portfolio career meant a pay cut.Today we are celebrating a Portfolio Executive who spent twenty-six years in finance, the last nine as group finance director of a manufacturing business, and who left without a plan B and without any wish to retire.For his first six months he did what most capable people do. He waited for the right permanent role to appear, and quietly told himself that the fractional model was for other people.Then he sat down and did the arithmetic properly, client by client.Three clients. Eleven fee earning days a month. Within a few percent of his old salary.A year on, he is the part-time finance director of a family-owned engineering firm, a fast-growing software business and a charity, and he took his first non-executive seat at 58.What he says surprised him most was not the income. It was how much he enjoys the work again, and how much of his judgement each client actually uses.He is also a valued member of the Portfolio Executive Community.If you would like to show your support, save this post and say hello to him in the comments.What assumption about your own next chapter have you never actually tested?#PortfolioExecutive #FractionalLeadership #SecondHalfCareer #CareerRedesign #FractionalCFO
