If you noticed the advertisement in the last issue of The Marketplace for a director of the Goshen College Family Business Program, you'll realize that the position is the one I currently hold. Many people look forward to retiring after a lifetime of work in their various careers.
Retirement can be the fulfilment of a life-long dream.
We look forward to spending more time with our hobbies, traveling, or volunteering. With the current hot employment market, many are using retirement as an opportunity to move to another job, another career, and another stage of life. For another group of people, however, retirement is approached with a certain amount of reservation, uncertainty, and even fear. These individuals often put off retirement as long as possible. After all, their work has been their life.