20 Golden Principles for All Employees to Take Heed to.
One greatest mistake a lot of people make whiles in active
service has gone a long way to affect them after they have retired from their
respective places of work. Below are some 20 golden principles every employee
must take heed to. It might help you.
1.
Build
a home earlier. Be it a rural home or an urban home. Building a house at 50 is
not an achievement. Don't get used to government houses. This comfort is so
dangerous. Let all your family have a good time in your house.
2.
Go
home. Don't stick at work all year. You are not the pillar of your department.
If you drop dead today, you will be replaced immediately and operations will
continue. Make your family a priority.
3.
Don't
chase promotions. Master your skills and be excellent at what you do. If they
want to promote you, that's fine if they don't, stay positive to your personal
development.
4.
Avoid
office or work gossip. Avoid things that tarnish your name or reputation. Don't
join the bandwagon that backbites your bosses and colleagues. Stay away from
negative gatherings that have only people as their agenda.
5.
Don't
ever compete with your bosses. You will burn your fingers. Don't compete with
your colleagues, you will fry your brain.
6.
Ensure
you have a side business. Your salary will not sustain your needs in the long
run.
7.
Save
some money. Let it be deducted automatically from your payslip.
8.
Borrow
a loan to invest in a business or to change a situation not to buy luxury. Buy
luxury from your profit.
9.
Keep
your life, marriage, and family private. Let them stay away from your work.
This is very important.
10.Be loyal to yourself and believe in your work. Hanging around
your boss will alienate you from your colleagues and your boss may finally dump
you when he leaves.
11.Retire early. The best way to plan for your exit was when you
received the employment letter. The other best time is today. By 40 to 50 be
out.
12.Join work welfare and be an active member always. It will
help you a lot when any eventuality occurs.
13.Take leave days and utilize them by developing your future
home or projects. usually what you do during your leave days is a reflection of
how you'll live after retirement. If it means you spend it all holding a remote
control watching series on Zee World, expect nothing different after
retirement.
14.Start a project whilst still serving or working. Let your
project run whilst at work and if it doesn't do well, start another one till
it's running viably. When your project is viably running then retire to manage
your business. Most people or pensioners fail in life because they retire to
start a project instead of retiring to run a project.
15.Pension money is not for starting a project or buying a stand
or building a house but it's money for your upkeep or to maintain yourself in
good health. Pension money is not for paying school fees or marrying a young
wife but to look after yourself.
16.Always remember, when you retire never be a case study for
living a miserable life after retirement but be a role model for colleagues to
think of retiring too.
17.Don't retire just because you are finished or you are now a
burden to the company and just wait for your day to die. Retire young or whilst
energetic to enjoy waking up for a cup of coffee, enjoying the sun, receiving
money from your business, visiting nice places that you missed, and spending a good
time with family. Those who retire late, spend about 95% of their time at work
than with their family and that's why they see it difficult to spend time with
their family when they retire but end up looking for another job till, they
die. If they don't get another job, they die early.
18.Retire at your house than at government accommodation so that
when you retire you can easily fit into the society that raised you. It's not
easy to adjust to living in a location after spending more years at a company
house or at a government house.
19.Never let your employment benefits make you forget about your
retirement. Employment benefits are just meant to make you relax, and get
finished whilst time is moving. Remember when you retire, no one will call you
boss if you don't have a viable business.
20.Don't hate to retire because one day you will retire either
voluntarily or involuntarily.