Over the course of the Stabroek Business’ coverage of the small business sector it has not been uncommon to find that teachers, among other professionals, having removed themselves from the relatively routinized environment of the classroom, tend, in a great many instances, not to simply drift off into simply putting their feet up. Good health and adequate resources permitting, retired teachers, not infrequently, opt for a pursuit that might favour ‘the outdoors,’ gardening, all too frequently, being their favoured choices.
If there used to be a time when pottering around – perhaps in a small flower garden – might have been one of the favoured pursuits of the retired teacher, there are far more worthwhile options at their disposal these days. There is, resources and inclination permitting, the option of agriculture as a post–retirement pursuit from which a measure of both material profit and emotional satisfaction can be realized. Not infrequently, this might serve as a means of ‘topping’ up what, in the country’s now oil-driven economy, still remains disturbingly modest pensions.
