In some countries older people are being encouraged to work longer and not to retire. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of working beyond retirement age.

Middle
school
was over and I started high
school
. At the end of the
first
year of high
school
they asked us what job we want to do in the
future
. From that
day
on, I started to think about which profession should I choose in the
future
. After a long period of thinking, I examine how much
time
I spent with
computer
since elementary
school
years and I realized that the
computer
and the internet are the gateways to the world and that almost everything will work with artificial intelligence or codes in the
future
,
therefore
, I started researching
software
engineering. I was attracted to both job opportunities, good salaries and of
course
fun. In the
second
year of high
school
, I started the developing
course
to make a difference
among
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between
my peers and become a more qualified student, and I was interested in
software
for 2 years. On the
first
day
of the
course
, I learned the basic and logic of the codes. When I came home from the
course
, I was practicing more and taking notes because I knew I had to work hard to be a good developer in the
future
,
hence
, I was spending the most of my
time
for developing. I wanted to go to university with knowledge and earn money by making websites or online selling while studying. The
first
subject we started to work on was the Arduino and I was impressed by the
visuality
an energetic style
vitality
of our projects. Using
Arduino
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the Arduino
, we were making speakers, calculators, illuminated signs and even tiny robots, and I was seriously fascinated by these. I talked to the teacher and said at the end of the Arduino topic, can we make a
robot
that can play a song by itself. I had been playing guitar for 3 years and piano for 1 year, so I would record the sounds. Even if the teacher said it would be very difficult, we thought how
to do
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doing
it for 2 months and we made our plan.
Firstly
, I will record the notes one by one with the piano,
secondly
, with the distance sensor, the
robot
will detect the distance and it will make a song by playing different notes according to the closeness. At the end of 4 weeks, we created our project with the whole class and showed our
robot
to both our families and other teachers in the
course
. Of
course
, our
robot
was a simple
robot
, but it was a serious step for us and had crucial results.
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In
this
study, I understood that I am interested in
software
, robotics and coding more than anything else. The happiness of success gave me confidence and my
future
anxiety was reduced. I was planning to go to a good university by specializing in
software
and getting the necessary grades,
then
I wanted to graduate and create impressive projects or be part of these projects. After processing topics like SQL, Phyton and C#, the
course
is over and I started preparing presentations and projects to get my certificate. We made a presentation to all students and teachers in the
course
and get our certificate.
Although
the
software
attracted my attention and I was going to do
this
in the
future
, sitting at the
computer
was a bit annoying most of the
time
. In the past, most of the
time
I was playing guitar at home or actively doing sports and I wasn'
t
spending that much
time
at the
computer
. When I was in middle
school
, I was the table tennis captain of the
school
and was attending tournaments at least once a month, where there were other schools. I attended the summer camp of the
school
to play table tennis better and took lessons from good teachers. Apart from table tennis, I was playing
soccer
with my friends after
school
every
day
. If there was no person I knew at
school
, I still didn'
t
leave
soccer
and met strangers at
school
and played with them. The physical education teacher of the
school
who saw that I played
soccer
on the field of the
school
every evening, introduced me to the coach of an amateur
soccer
team
, who was his cousin. 1 month later, I took care of the documents and became an amateur
soccer
player in a
team
in the amateur
soccer
league. Everyone in the
team
had known each other for at least 2 years and they got along well together, but I immediately got along well with them. Our
team
chemistry held well and we had good results in that season. We used to go out to celebrate the victory and usually spend our weekends together. Unfortunately, one
day
there was a disagreement between my family and our coach and I said goodbye to the
team
. Two years later, two of my friends from the
software
course
attended our
school
and they were both interested in
soccer
. I couldn'
t
play
football
after
school
because there was no field to play
football
in our
school
, so, I was getting away from
football
day
by
day
. Oddly, I would start playing
football
again thanks to the
software
course
. We rented a
football
field and started to play
soccer
again. We asked young people around us to join our
team
and we created a
soccer
team
. We started playing once a week. I had regained another hobby after two years and didn'
t
want to lose it again. High
school
ends, but we still continue to play matches 3-4 times a month. My biggest dream is to come to better places in
software
and to lead a peaceful and successful life without leaving my hobbies in the
future
.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • financial security
  • standard of living
  • ameliorated
  • mentoring
  • physical health
  • mental decline
  • workforce diversity
  • exacerbate
  • quality of life
  • employment opportunities
  • work-life imbalance
  • ageism
  • retirement planning
  • pension funds
  • job market dynamics
  • seniority
  • compulsory retirement age
  • productive capacity
  • intergenerational collaboration
  • mentality
  • employer attitudes
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