Superannuate at 62

It is a universal truth that few people doing a salaried job want to superannuate at the prescribed age. It is 58 for full time doctors in public institutes. The government has proposed to increase it to 62 recently, not because the doctors were keen to continue beyond 58, but because a lot of them were superannuating in a couple of months and the medical institutes would lose recognition owing to deficiency in the staff requirement. It is a trend that municipal corporations do what the government does after a latent period of a few to many months. So now the municipal doctors in teaching hospitals are likely to get 4 more years to work. But it may not be as simple as that. It seems the associate professors became unhappy that the professors would take 4 more years to superannuate and hence the associate professors’ promotions would be delayed by 4 more years. It seems they went to the chief, who wanted to appease them and proposed that after 58 the head of departments would step down as heads but continue as professors. I cannot see how the associate professors get promoted 4 years earlier by this method, except that the professor number 2 becomes head, and perhaps get to be boss of the fellow who had shot down all his proposals and his happiness all these many years. Another rumor voiced by the president of full time teachers’ association was that only doctors who were below 50 would be allowed to work up to 62, while those aged 50 or more would superannuate at 58. The reason was that continuing so many senior doctors would burden the treasury much more in the form of payment of salaries. That rumor upset a number of teachers. I joined work after a leave of a month. I got used to having fun at home so much that I was upset I would have to work up to 62 instead of 58, because it meant having to face the same silly troubles every day instead of sitting back and enjoying life. I have never run away from life and so I will continue anyway.