So, now that Early Retirement or even Retirement at all......

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...has been declared non-PC or even anti-social, is "The Dream" now to be regarded as a thing of the past? Will anyone embarking on such a course be seen in future as a shirker or social pariah? I look around the marina at Gouvia and they're getting thinner on the ground by the year - except for the ex-civil servant and local goverment classes, that is!

Can I expect a knock on the door from the Thought Police for daring to make such utterances (whilst Alastair is running his guts out at Gateshead)

(Clever way to defuse the Demographic Time Bomb isn't it? Attempt to alter the country's mindset on the work/leisure balance!)

Steve Cronin
 
Sod this

Listen to this... it's the sound of me not caring.

The plan - set in stone - is to stop working alltogether at 50.
We had our kids when we were very young - so I'm very much looking forward to retiring VERY early. Retire from the navy in 3 years and 28 days, but I'll think I'll manage a few more years doing God knows what, but at 50 I'll chuck it in completely.

It's the dream that keeps me going day after day.
 
YOU\'re alright then Jack?

..retiring from the navy. ALL public sector workers seem to be OK but sod the rest of us eh?

Pull up the ladder!

Steve Cronin
 
I got slightly early retirement at 59 (normal age 60 in that job). Don't know who was more pleased - me to retire, or they to be rid of me.
I enjoyed my career - most of it - but the last few years were just gruesome. Gruesome. Never want to go through that again.
Retirement is great but do not expect to have ANY spare time!
 
Hi Blackbeard - Sounds all to familiar these days. Just before I got out a lady in our office said 'It's nature's way of preparing you for retirement - it makes work really sh***y'. Get out as soon as you can - sailing thro' the week is much better.
 
Re: YOU\'re alright then Jack?

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..retiring from the navy

Pull up the ladder!

Steve Cronin [/quote

I don't begrudge a pension to anyone who, in the course of their job, might have to get shot at for queen and country.
 
Re: YOU\'re alright then Jack?

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..retiring from the navy. ALL public sector workers seem to be OK but sod the rest of us eh?

Pull up the ladder!



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In the boom years no-one wanted to work in the public sector - private industry paid LOADS more.

As said elsewhere: I've done my bit.
In my 26 years so far I've been shot at, spat on, ignored, lived in accomodation you would not put a refugee in, ... whilst most people were getting on the property ladder or cashing in on the dot com hype.

It's payback.

Jealousy - such a pointless emotion
 
Re: YOU\'re alright then Jack?

Three employees at one of local councils have been given early retirement, cost £400,000 in handouts.
Paid for by the rest of us that are not allowed early retirement, ok trying to catch up with our pension.

Had my say, back to work.

Brian
 
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.....In the boom years no-one wanted to work in the public sector - private industry paid LOADS more.....

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... and retired even earlier.
 
Re: YOU\'re alright then Jack?

Retiring from the Navy at 50 - absolutely no choice in this, and then trying to find some other employment at this age- not the easiest task.

I was lucky, mortgage paid off and children grown up. The guys that married later, (or second marriage cause divorce rate in the services is very high) are in a lot of bother when they hit the 50 and get discarded like so much debris.

Most army guys are in even worse condition cause they probably have not even started to buy a house, and they are suffering from knackered knees and ankles.
 
Re: YOU\'re alright then Jack?

Most army guys are in even worse condition ........ and they are suffering from knackered knees and ankles.

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do you think this might be why major catastrophy has stopped posting ? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Have been working in the private sector for 33 years, and still 5 and a half till "early'' retirement.As Blackbeard said, the end is gruesome.Can deal with the youngsters thinking they know it all (I have 4 kids, it's normal),but when I spend most of my professional life attempting to potty train 38 year old boss, it does get tiring.
So in 3 years time, I'm going on the dole, sod it - have never yet had a benefit hand-out in my life, so I reckon its my time to be a shirker. By that time I'll have paid for others' shirking for 35+ years.
Why don't I do it now? Still 2 kids on the payroll
 
Going on the dole is not an option any more unless you served your time there and are a fuly paid up member of that club. You get JOB SEEKERS allowance and only if they think you are seeking jobs properly! As for private sector pensions, having seen my forecast go from £15k/annum to £7K/annum then hear my brother in law moaning that they are not giong to let him retire at 57 or something just gets up my nose. I was going at 60 but can't afford that now so it's 65! Grrrrr.
 
It'll soon be the other way round - immigration is the only chance we have of finding people to look after us in our old age /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Where do you plan to employ them to generate your pension, or are we employing them to look after each of us ?

Brian
 
A bit of both. With the declining birth rate and ageing population the workforce has to come from somewhere, both to look after us and to keep the economy going to pay for it all
 
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