Are You Asked the Quintessential Question:??What are you doing after Retirement?? Musings on Retirement and the Military Officer Last Saturday, on the 19th?of January 2013, I was delighted to be in the beautiful pristine environs of Girinagar near Pune in the sublime campus of?
This answer led to the admonishment:??Why are you doing nothing after retirement??
I retired on superannuation from the Navy more than 2 years ago and since then I am leading a truly retired life ?doing nothing?.
What is the definition and meaning of retirement?
?Retirement? means ?Doing Nothing? ? isn?t it?Many don?t seem to understand this.?
So whenever I meet my erstwhile colleagues, and young officers too, they all ask me what I am doing after my retirement and they seem perplexed when I honestly answer that I am ?doing nothing? after my retirement. (Of course, many of my retired colleagues who are actually doing nothing try to put on a pretence as if they are very busy and try to masquerade as if they are doing something important after retirement. Maybe they indulge in this charade as they feel embarrassed to speak the truth and think they will lose face if they say that they are doing nothing). Now let me talk a bit about the topic ? RETIREMENT? and discuss some tips on retirement for Military Officers belonging to the Army, Navy and Air Force. In most jobs you retire at the age of 60, sometimes even at 65 or 70 if you are a Professor or a Judge or you are a Bureaucrat who has managed an ?extension? or a cushy post retirement job. In some vocations, like business and politics, you never retire and keep on working incessantly till your death.However, if you happen to serve in the defence services, in the army, navy or air force, you retire early.?
If you are an officer, it is most likely you will retire on superannuation at the age of 54 ? a few lucky ones may pull on to 56.Only those who attain Flag Rank (and become Generals, Admirals or Air Marshals) can remain in service beyond that age and retire at 58 or 60 like their civilian counterparts.?
However, owing to the steep pyramidal hierarchical organisational structure a very small percentage get promoted to flag rank (I do not have the exact figures but from what I have observed it looks like hardly 1% of the officers who join finally get promoted to flag rank). Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen retire much earlier ? most retire after 15 years service at the prime of their life, in their mid thirties at around 35 years of age. It is not feasible to ?settle? your children and complete your familial responsibilities at this young age, so they have no choice and have to take up a second career in the ?civvy street?.Officers are caught midway.?
If you want to truly ?retire? on your superannuation date, then you must ensure that all your domestic commitments and familial obligations are complete well before you are 54 years of age.??
You must have your own ?retirement home? to live in and you must have enough savings to lead a decent retired life in these days of burgeoning inflation.?
And of course, most importantly, your children should have completed their studies and must be settled in life. If you can achieve all this before you retire, then you can indulge in the luxury of??doing nothing? after retirement and lead a truly blissful retired life.If you are in the Navy (or Army or Air Force) it is best not to marry.?
If you are a bachelor you will be well looked after by the service.?
But if you do want to get married, please marry early and have all your children as early as possible. Calculating backwards, all your children must be settled in life by the time you reach the retirement age of 54. This means that you must have all your kids before you reach the age of 30 (assuming that your youngest kid will complete his or her education and get a job by the age of 24). So you must get married at the stipulated age of 25 (or even earlier if possible). This is the best case optimistic scenario assuming that your children study well and are good at academics. Remember that for every child you have after you are 30 you are putting pressure on your retired life and you may not be able to afford the luxury of ?doing nothing? after retirement.Some officers marry late or have children late in life.?
I have seen a situation where children were still in school when an officer retired at the age of 54.?
The poor guy had no choice but to take up a job and spend many years of his retired life slogging it out in the ?civvy street?. Of course, if you are married to a ?career woman? then it is really great and you can enjoy your retirement ?doing nothing? while your ?breadwinner? wife ?brings home the bacon? and ?puts bread on the table? to speak metaphorically.In this respect, Lady Officers are luckier.?
At least in the contemporary societal context in?VIKRAM KARVE
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