Retirement

I was once wondering, what is the ripe age for retirement and then concluded that it depends on your profession. A service class person retires as per govt. rules. Defence personal retire a bit early. Businessmen never retire. A sportsperson hangs his boots when he feels that he is not good enough for the game. Politicians begin their career when a normal person starts thinking about retirement. I think the perfect time for a particular profession is when you are no longer fascinated about it. I am not saying you should retire and sit at your home, but rather retire from the current profession and choose something that will fascinate you. Some people choose the money as the retirement criteria. But then people like Bill G should have retired long before. It is the excitement which you carry each morning to your work place that keeps you moving. If you are sulky each day you step in the office, probably time to move on.

Then I realized that I have attained this so called salvation in the first 5-6 months of my career. It doesnt mean that I dont like the work I was doing. But I wasnt excited either. I did what I was meant to, not what I wanted to. The problem is that even I dont know What I want to do. So in my 14 months stay in the Software Industry, I have already lost all the fascination. I am still committed to my work. I am also good at what I am doing. I am also paid well too. But that spark is missing somewhere. Following what I preached above, I should quit this job and do something which fascinates me(and I dont know that too !!). If I really go by heart and quit the job, roam aimlessly for sometime to find what I want to so, people will call me crazy. Not to mention, my parents will take me to psychiatrist. I dont want myself to be termed as brainsick, but I still want to find the correct path of my life. So I am left with the option to explore various activities while pursuing my current job. Another workaround could be to take a break from job and continue my studies. This way I will be able to buy time to choose the road at the crossroads of my life. But the irony is that I am clueless about my course for Masters too !!