Dear Dr. FN
Congratulations on achieving a very important Capstone in your life: Earning a
PhD from Goa University.
The best of luck to you in your search for other greater challenges.
I consider myself quite fortunate for having had an opportunity to get to know
you in the digital world.
Best Regards.
Egas De Sousa
On Monday, January 25, 2021, 2:28:15 PM EST, Frederick Noronha
<fredericknoron...@gmail.com> wrote:
Retirement at 62, 60, 58 (or whatever age the political class of the day
decide to make us redundant) is too early! Btw, I retired at 32... the age at
which I gave up (voluntarily) my full-time job, and never regretted that
decision for a single day of my life. So far. (Apart from the fact that some
snarky Goanetters would wonder how I made a living, and though there was
something fishy about it!)
Of course, "retirement" is more of an emotional thingy. We feel redundant and
useless after this "milestone" is crossed. I've never worked as hard, partly
because I needed to make it work (no going back), but also because I was "in
control" (more or less) and enjoyed the creativity that flowed out of it.
My friend, Dr Ajit Shirodkar, the US-educated chemist-turned-horticulturist,
has this theory that we need a second career in our 50s. This is just to keep
ourselves intellectually alive and active. God forbid, what if we actually live
till 80? We would be bored stiff, either carrying on with the same work, or
doing nothing...
Secretly, I'm scouting around for other challenges :-) Sooner or later, I hope
to run into them. There's no fear of "retirement" then. Donkeys, and
journalists, they say, never retire. Thank god! FN--
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