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Show Ha 10 RULES TO FOLLOW BEFORE YOU RETIRE ALONG about now, if things have none on schedule, Mrs. Albert G. Foster and her husband Al are fishing on the banks of a tumbling stream that runs through the town of Gatlinburg, Tenn. Before they left, Mr. Foster wanted to tell how he planned to set up a highway stand in front of his cabin and sell the handicraft handi-craft of the mountain folk to vacationists. vaca-tionists. But Mrs. Foster insisted that he tell about his "Ten Commandments Com-mandments of Retiring" which he had drawn up during his last year on the job. So he did. And Uiey aren't bad. Here they are: 1. One year or so before age 65 go to the boss and ask him to give it to you straight are they going to retire you or aren't they? When he says they are, thank him as if you liked it. But you'll know for sure now. 2. The next day go to the Personnel Per-sonnel Office if the company is big enough for that sort of thing, or if it's not, to the prim little woman in the corner who keeps books on you, and tell her to tell you: On what day your first pension pen-sion check will arrive and how much it'll be, whether you'll be able to continue your hospital insurance in-surance and your life insurance, whether you'll get severance pay, what employee rights, if any, you'll carry over into retirement and what will you get that you haven't thought of. 3. Start soft-soaping anybody in the company who is on the way up, and keep at it for this last year. You never know . . . 4. Decide whether or not you want a post-retirement job or a part time job with the company. If so, start out. to sell the executive execu-tive who can grant it. 5. Relax for a couple of months and then tell the boss you are ready to start training your successor. suc-cessor. Then train him, good. You've got nothing to lose, and you owe it to your Job heir. 6. Don't tell any fellow employees em-ployees what you are going to do in retirement. Speak casually of your investments, of your wife's desire to explore the Smokies, of a couple of companies that are nagging you to come to work for them. 7. Figure your last vacation into your pension deal. You'll pick up some dollars this way. Besides you don't need three weeks of rest a few months before you get 20 years of it. 8. Don't goof off the job in the last year. 9. Finally, don't let them trap you into a retirement party. This is a salve for the conscience of those who are retiring you, and they don't really deserve it. It is a tax on your fellow employees who have to contribute for an electric-razor for you; or something. some-thing. 10. Don't go back to the scene. When retirement is a fact it is an absolute fact. Don't go back to advise or to visit. You have winked at the girls, back-slapped the boys, and grasped the hand of the boss. That's it. It's over. It's done. Go get the new life that is yours. |