Can we assume that you'll be the first to raise your hand for voluntary redundancy then? Save the job of somebody who doesn't have a property business and a "quite large" pension fund - more likely a "quite large" training debt, student loan and, if they're lucky, a mortgage to pay.
If only every captain who spends the bulk of days complaining about the job in amongst talking about their three properties, businesses, pension funds and expensive cars would do the honourable thing and step aside, there wouldn't be a need for people to be seeking ideas on an internet forum about what to do when their career is decimated thirty years before retirement.