“I didn’t have enough money to make them doctors and engineers,” he says. “So they simply did their graduations.”
Haji Aziz had completed his BE in mechanical engineering before joining service in 1964.
Now, after 14 years of retirement, Haji Aziz is still earning. He works as a supplier and contractor to various government departments. “It is the duty of every parent to make their children independent and to marry them off, so I had to work again (after retirement).”
He has only married off his daughter and the elder son. All of his sons work in the private sector.
Haji Aziz says he could have lived a “luxurious life” like his friends did, but he did not want to spoil his hereafter - life after death. He claims to have never taken “bribes and commission.” “If I had taken bribes, my sons would have been doctors or engineers,” he says.
In addition to his motivation for ensuring his children settle down, Haji Aziz says his passion for work did not allow him to stay home. He has been a footballer and played in various inter-state tournaments. “I am 70; I don’t take any medicines and never complain of any old age symptoms like my friends do. I feel it is because of my habit of being active throughout my life,” he says. “After all my sons are married, I might assist my elder son who is running a computers sale and service business.”
Busy and healthy
Ahmadullah Shah, an electrical engineer started his career in 1971 when he got the job of a section officer in the electricity department. After progressing steadily in his career, Shah finally retired in 2007 as AEE. He has good memories of working in the department. “Ours is the department with which people are never satisfied - the great electricity department,” he says with a smile. more
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