Retirement can be described as “the point where a person stops employment completely” according to Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. Normal retirement age is estimated between 55 and 70. (www.wikipedia.org_retirement). But in reality, each profession has different determined age to retire. It depends on the kind of profession that the person does.
The ideal retirement age differs from one job to another. A reason that people are forced into retirement is mainly meeting the physical requirements of the job (Rincon 2007). Some jobs require high physical ability to be done well, while others need experience and intelligence. These factors will determine the productive age and also retirement age for each kind of job.
Each profession has its own productive age. “Productive age is a range of age when people can work for paid employment optimally” (Conrad 2004:289). As example, many sportsmen quit from their job after reach 35. After reach age 35, it is believed that the person no longer be in his productive age for the job. It is because sport is a kind of job that needs more physical and stamina ability than other kind of profession. Meanwhile, educational worker, musician, and artist, can work until the age of 60 to 70. These kinds of job, need more experience to be performed optimally. For example in Indonesia, retirement age of the employee of a national industrial corporation is forced to retire at the age of 50 to 55.
Retirement is natural. Each kind of job has its own limitation of age to be obey. If you start working you must realize that someday, after you reach your limit, you’ll have to stop.
References
Retirement. Wikipedia the Online Encyclopedia. [Online Article]. Retrieved May 24th 2008, from the World Wide Web: www.wikipedia.com_retirement
Rincon, Paul. 2007. Retirement age 'should reach 85'. BBC News Article. [Online Article]. Retrieved May 24th 2008, from the World Wide Web: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4726300.stm
Conrad, Rownan. (2004). Economic Encyclopedia 3rd ed. New Castle :Wadsworth Inc.
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