0 the practice of leaving a job that is well paid and difficult in order to do something that gives you more time and satisfaction but less money:
1 leaving a job that is well paid and difficult in order to do something that gives you more time and satisfaction but less money:
3 the act of leaving a well-paid but difficult job in order to do something that gives you more time and satisfaction but less money:
More and more of us are being seduced by the idea of downshifting.
That career downshifting will increasingly open management opportunities to members of generations X and Y, the demographic cohorts born between 1965 and 1998.
The idea of downshifting always had the faint implication of stepping back from an active life.
He arrived from London 25 years ago, a downshifting television executive with a penchant for cider.
The Church of England has become the latest destination for downshifting professionals in search of a quieter, more vocational lifestyle.
It is a favoured destination of downshifting city dwellers with idealised expectations of rural England.
