UK pension age rise

[Doggy Styles]

Indeed, if they hadn't invented the motor car London would now be buried in a 9 foot thick layer of horse manure.

Of course what they should have done was introduce a horse manure tax, and open an exchange to trade horse manure.

Or erected a lot of giant windmills.

I don't know what for, but 'plus ca change'.

[BlasterBates]

Indeed, if they hadn't invented the motor car London would now be buried in a 9 foot thick layer of horse manure.

Of course what they should have done was introduce a horse manure tax, and open an exchange to trade horse manure.

The Great Horse-Manure Crisis of 1894 | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty

[wobbegong]

Permies working until age 70, will have a dire hit on the company pension funds as the number of payouts for 'death-in-service' increase.

[BlasterBates]

I once did some work in a bank in Frankfurt, where at least some of the original team of developers who built the mainframe in the 1960's were still there, almost 40 years later.

In 30 years time there will be a bunch of doddery old Dot NET developers trying to keep the legacy systems going.

[shaunbhoy]

WES.

Getting paid during one's lizardly retirement is a definite advantage.

You will have to keep yourself reasonably busy zeity, or you will just get bored, comfort eat, and then run out of humans to gorge yourself upon.

[TestMangler]

You honestly think you'll be able to secure IT contracts aged 60 or 70?

Dream on. This career ends at 50 tops.

Utter Bollocks.

[eek]

Any reasonable contractor should have retired by 50 anyway. Either they're crap or have wasted their money.

I'll be retiring at 48 in 4 years time to do some full time studying and then see where life takes me.

I was thinking about doing that until some of my mates started retiring aged 50 odd and all seem to be having problems keeping themselves occupied or well. One problem that I frequently see is that their carefully laid plans turn out to be not as interesting as they thought they would be.

I think cutting down rather than stopping is a better approach as you really need to do something to avoid going doolally.

[Gibbon]

You honestly think you'll be able to secure IT contracts aged 60 or 70?

Dream on. This career ends at 50 tops.

Any reasonable contractor should have retired by 50 anyway. Either they're crap or have wasted their money.

I'll be retiring at 48 in 4 years time to do some full time studying and then see where life takes me.

[eek]

You honestly think you'll be able to secure IT contracts aged 60 or 70?

Dream on. This career ends at 50 tops.

Pick you industry carefully and it won't be a problem keeping going on after 50.

And I'm planning to keep on going until I die although I'll cut down to 2-3 days a week with 1 month breaks from 50 onwards.

[alreadypacked]

You honestly think you'll be able to secure IT contracts aged 60 or 70?

Dream on. This career ends at 50 tops.

Seeing what Bob is doing to f#@k up the current systems, I am sure there will be a lot of work to keep me going, as there will not be enough trained European contractors.

Very short sighted European companies means boom for me.

[OwlHoot]

You honestly think you'll be able to secure IT contracts aged 60 or 70?

Dream on. This career ends at 50 tops.

Not for all of us

[DimPrawn]

You honestly think you'll be able to secure IT contracts aged 60 or 70?

Dream on. This career ends at 50 tops.

[alreadypacked]

I thought you were mega rich, building houses all over the tiger economies, etc.

Not mega rich, also painfully aware that no matter how much money you have now, it will never be enough to retire.

I see myself doing what I do now, contract 6-9 months of the year and taking the winter off in a warmer locations (if I can contract there too )

[TimberWolf]

When people ask me when am I going to retire, I say never. Guess I'm not wrong!

UK pension age will have to rise to 70 because of Labour's reckless borrowing | Mail Online

I thought you were mega rich, building houses all over the tiger economies, etc.

[alreadypacked]

When people ask me when am I going to retire, I say never. Guess I'm not wrong!

UK pension age will have to rise to 70 because of Labour's reckless borrowing | Mail Online