Message #2510

[Boudi]

When I was 30 a lorry ran into the back of my car, causing considerable back problems.  When the specialist prodded and pulled he said that at my age wear and tear was to be expected, cosidering my job.  I'm expected to stay in that job until my mid sixties at least.  As a public sector worker i get a gold plated pension, apparently.  I wonder how may people out there have gold plated jewelry, and how often they've worn it?  Police retire at 50, I rarely see teachers work beyond 55, and yet they don't have a more physically difficult job than mine.  There may be people who can retire later, and have their health, yet I see colleagues with bad joints, bad backs and generally worn out.  i've had 26 years of it..winter aches and summer sneezes.  I think that if I get to 65 I'll have an old age I don't want,even if I have got a pension in a gold envelope that's considerably less than people think.....