RETIREMENT SERIES IS RETIREMENT A DEATH SENTENCE?
Susan Chacha
Human Resource Officer/Performance Management/Recruitment and selection/Staff engagement/Talent Management
In one of our discussions, based on the statistics of people we knew, we noted that many people, especially civil servants, die within three years of retirement or two years before retirement.
One reason that stood out for us was that people are so wrapped up in their jobs that they no longer have other identities apart from their work titles.
This series isn’t just about financial stability in retirement but also about how to live happily when your time comes.
Today I’m sharing a few tips that I came across on one of our professional platforms.
ADVICE TO ALL CIVIL SERVANTS AND UNIFORMED OFFICERS
Be loyal to yourself and believe in your work. Don’t alienate yourself from your colleagues.
Go home. Don’t stick at work all year. You are not the pillar of your department. If you drop dead today, someone will replace you, and operations will continue. Make your family a priority.
Don’t chase promotions. Master your skills and be excellent at what you do. If they want to promote you, that’s fine. Otherwise, stay positive about your personal development.
Keep off office or work gossip. Avoid politics. Don’t join the bandwagon that backbites your bosses and colleagues. Keep off gatherings that only have people as their agenda.
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Don’t compete with your bosses. You will burn your fingers. Don’t compete with your colleagues, you will fry your brain.
Ensure you have a side business. Your salary will not sustain your needs in the long run.
Save some money. Put a standing order in your savings account.
Borrow a loan to invest in a business or to change a situation, not to buy luxury. Buy luxury from your profit.
Keep your life, marriage, and family private. Let them stay away from your work.?
If possible, build a home early. Building a house at 50 is not an achievement. Don’t get used to government houses. This comfort is so dangerous. Let all your family have a good time at your home.
Retire early. The best way to plan for your exit was when you received the employment letter. The other best time is today. By 40 to 50, be out.
Join work welfare and be an active member always. It will help you a lot when any eventuality occurs.
I hope this will help you look at life positively and plan accordingly. Things have changed, and unless you expect trouble and serious trouble as they say failure to plan is planning to fail.
Director of Infrastructure Development at Konza Technopolis Development Authority
2 年Retirement is exactly the trigger for all your latent skills and talents that hitherto were not on show. I know this for a fact. I don't even like the word "retirement". I think it is merely a different phase of one's career path. It is the independent phase and that's how I like it. It is a phase that allows me an independent work ethic, independent thinking and freedom. But it also allows me to share experience with younger colleagues and society at large. Now, that's a phase like no other in one career progression.