INTRODUCTION

Traditionally, retirement (whether mandatory, voluntary or otherwise – leaving paid employment) should be a period of leisure, fulfillment and perhaps, self-rediscovery. It can also be a time of economic challenges. Indeed, some retirees or those leaving paid employment before retirement age have even turned their life long hobbies into successful enterprises while some others used the opportunity to commence the business of their dreams.

On the other hand, retirement or leaving paid employment has become scary to some other people. In fact, the stress and trauma of sudden loss of job or the reality of imminent loss of employment invariably create serious social economic and health problems for employees particularly after disengagement. Many even resign in despair and hardly ever recover again. The major cause of this state of affair is because of lack of adequate pre-retirement preparation.

This Workshop therefore is designed to adequately equip and prepare employees to appreciate that leaving paid employment is one of the changes and challenges that is inevitable in working life and to prepare them psychologically to face the imminent challenge with positive goals and objectives in mind. 

OBJECTIVES

At the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:

• prepare for life and work/vocation after retirement
• develop both short and long term plans for disengagement from paid employment
• Develop alternatives and options of what to do for their current means of livelihood
• Sustain the new interest or vocation by actually investing their reserved and acquirable energy and other resources in these new ventures/vocations