The lifecycle of a practitioner: one learns and masters, one practises and explores, then one teaches and mentors.
It is one of the central social duties of lifelong learners and practitioners to not abandon their respective fields after #retirement and sail off to the proverbial Sunset Isles. Decades of experience in a field is purchased with untold amounts of funds, time, resources, and exertion. It ought not be discarded, just because one’s chronological age ticks onto that magical mark upon the wall clock. Instead, experienced #pensioners should donate their now-ample free time to mentoring the next generation of leaders in the field.
But, of course, the key limiter, here, is the receptivity of that said next generation to such guidance. It is no surprise, then, that verdant, idyllic places like the Caribbean, Florida, etc., are inundated with green-rich, idle pen$ioner$.
That is an unforgivable waste of the most precious human resource: the professional #judgement informed by a lifetime of #experience.