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APPROACHING RETIREMENT

Most of us had at least there major decisions to make in life: where to live, what to do and with whom to do it.  We chose jobs, partners, friends, hobbies, etc.  That past is come and gone and you have had experience of it.  As retirement approaches, we begin to think again of three major decisions: where to live and what to do and how to take the pension.  How can we make these choices?

DON'T RETIRE?

Retirement comes to everybody, it is sort of a mandatory proclamation that when people reach a certain age they must step aside and go home. In the UN and its allied agencies like UNICEF (and others) you  have to retire at 60 or 62 (depending on when you joined the organization). But if you think of it, if anti-discrimination laws hold, people have the right to keep working as long as they can and want.

IAN HIBELL- THE CYCLIST EXTRAORDINARY

An a adventurous man, a determined man, perhaps the only human-being to bicycle across stretches of the world where no man or woman ever attempted.  Ian did not look to breaking records or times. He just wanted to be with nature and feel the earth. He bicycled over 240,000 miles over 40 years until at age 74 a reckless driver struck and killed Ian Hibell. Ian Hibell obituary is a great tribute by the Economist.