These days, people do not want to retire. They want to keep on working. So, they seek extensions even after retirement by hook or crook. Well, that could be due to either financial distress or lack of social life.
In good days, people make mistakes and do not save and ultimately end up extending retirement age. Things do not settle, and problems keep coming. So, retirement stalls. When age advances, health deteriorates. Someone may put up a big smile and brush it off as “age is just a number” or “sixty is the new twenty’. Frankly speaking, it is generally not true for everyone. By the time you turn fifty, most of the people will likely have lifestyle diseases anyway because the jobs these days are mostly sedentary. Above all, humans are lazy and hardly tend to go outdoors and work out rather than sitting on the couch and devouring food. At the end of the day, it does not feel nice to work.
People have ambitions. While in jobs, people shift. Finally, they are cut off from our friends and family. While working, people do not long to have these companies because these relationships are taxing and drain your energy. But one has to keep in mind that these relationships keep one grounded in society. At the end of the day, people end up lonely and have no one to turn to after retirement. The office was all his life. It is convenient, but it is not wholesome.
So, people often tend to get attached to the workplace. So, they seek undue extensions many times. Well, there may be exceptionally good people whose expertise is needed at any cost. But, people who tend to seek extensions do not seem to justify. For juniors, these people are now new obstacles. The people who were once warm and cordial will no longer be the same. Their dealings will be cold. In many instances, things get so messy that people conspire to oust them in a very bad manner. Everything has an expiry date, and so is the job. Once the date approaches, one has to move on to better avenues in a dignified way.
