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Bet I live to 100

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    #11
    Originally posted by _V_
    Who needs a pension?

    Simply take out a bet now with a bookmakers that you will live to 65 (say 50/1 odds) and bet £10K.

    If you make it, collect £500K pension fund. If not, who cares, you're dead!
    A remarkably good suggestion - one of the best I have read here.

    Reminds me of those who believe in the Afterlife if they did and there is an Afterlife - then their efforts have not been in vain - if they die and there is no Afterlife - they will never know the better.

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      #12
      86% you would reach 65 from the age of 40. I'd give you odds of 6/50 of not making it.

      www.gad.gov.uk/Life_Tables/docs/wltukm0305.xls
      I remember the good old days of this site when people used to moan about serious contractor related issues like house prices and immigration. How times have changed!?

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        #13
        For all of you go-getters out there - working from contract to contract without taking holidays in some hellhole of an IT site living out of a suitcase in damp accomodation - beware

        From Wilkiepedia ....


        Recreation is essential to the longevity of human beings, especially because it helps counteract stress.

        Today, according to Time magazine, stress is a major factor in many of the leading causes of death in the United States, including heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidents, cirrhosis of the liver and suicide.

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          #14
          Originally posted by AlfredJPruffock
          For all of you go-getters out there - working from contract to contract without taking holidays in some hellhole of an IT site living out of a suitcase in damp accomodation - beware
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          Why would somebody get stressed reading and posting drivel on CUK forum all day .Taking holidays is so stressful in comparison. Book flights,acco. etc etyc

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