Employment : Retirement, Still A Useful Period

Retirement is a big deal. It marks the start of another chapter in an employee’s life. It reveals the end of a career or the start of a new one. And it is also a life event that changes every day with other experiences. Information indicates that more and more senior citizens do not just fall into idleness and lead a precarious life. They are becoming more resourceful not only to the companies they worked for but also to their country in general. Besides being consultants and entrepreneurs, some companies call back their workers from retirement due to their wealth of experience acquired after several years of work.  
Most senior citizens on retirement have not gone into slumber because they do not have a regular job. Vast majority of the professionals are today coaches or consultants, in their former companies or their domains of competence. Because of the experiences, interesting and fulfilling work career of those on retirement, former employers of such professionals have not hesitated to hire their services while on retirement to coach younger staff and boost the development of the company and the national economy. Of course, competition for these plum positions is growing especially in big organizations like the UN. A 2016 study estimated that there are more than 53,300 professional coaches worldwide, and the British paper, “The Independent” pegged the number of management consultants at 500,000. The influence of senior professionals has also kept this group of people active and profitable to themselves and the nation while on retirement. The African society, particularly Cameroon, is the most striking illustration of this as age is far from being a shipwreck but the accession to the status of "dean" for some and "patriarch" to others. «The influence of such seniors is inseparable from the traditions. Knowing that the elderly commands ...