People Dont Want To Retire according to a Government Survey

[waterbabe]

Yea Right.
How come the Government only take notice of what the PEOPLE want when it suits what they want.
Surely some PEOPLE dont want to work until they are 70 or 80 its the government that want us to.
The PEOPLE want to know the names of the young lads that tortured those poor boys.
The PEOPLE want to know the what will be hidden for 70 yrs regarding Dr Kelly's death.
The Government are very selective in giving the PEOPLE what they want.

[grasscarp]

Except that some people do actually want to remain working. I know of several people who have died very shortly after retirement occured. They related themselves to their job and coincidentally or whatever gave up when the job ended. I am not usually on the side of government surveys but there are people who do want to carry on. (plus in my case I need the money!)

[craft1948]

I would certainly be very interested about Dr Kelly's death.......I think if people want to work after normal retirement age they should be allowed to, but as a matter of choice..........I've no wish to know the names of the young lads as they'll be changed anyway...............

[Buenchico]

It's NOT a Government survey!

It was carried out by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Its resulting policy, of getting rid of the compulsory retirement age, is in direct CONTRADICTION of the current Government policy of continuing to allow employers the right to sack employees at the age of 65 (or any point thereafter, without the right to claim for 'unfair dismissal').

Chris

[R1Geezer]

I think most people want to retire but the important thing is whether they can afford it. I don't want to retire if I can merely exist rather than live. I'd retire tomorrow if I had plenty to live on so I can pursue interests, holidays etc but that is becomming less likely all the time. So as usual the governement pick a part truth! yes people don't want to retire....... if they cannot afford to live!

[brionon]

Nobody is Banned from working after the age of 65 and they Never have been !

[jake-the-peg]

Not sure Geezer

A lot of people (especially in positions of responsibility) get their feelings of self worth and importance from their jobs.

[R1Geezer]

Yes Jake but they are usually recaptured and returned to their asylum's very quickly. Most of us work because we have to. I think deep down even those that you refer to realise that. We are on the planet once, if I could get off being a wage slave I would, I don't know anyone who would not.

[Old_Geezer]

is sad if all thier vision of self worth is around their job. It is good they found a job they like though.

I'd be off freeing up a job positin for a younger person today if I felt I had the wealth to support me in a reasonable state until I died (and some left over for family left behind). Surely there must be many of us who aren't keen on the rat race and how we have to jump to management's whims.

[marval]

I think people should have the choice whether they retire or not. Some people would like to but cannot afford to, others want to go on working. The problem is that the pension is so paltry that many people struggle to live on it, and also I am not quite of retiring age, but it seems no one want to employ me. You hear stories of people who carry on working, until a very old age and if they are happy doing so, why not. I don't think the government should make people carry on working though, I think it should be personal choice, and the money should allow people to retive if they so wish.

[B00]

Well I for one can't wait till I reach retirement age (whatever that will be by the time i'm a wrinkly)

I can't wait to draw my pension at my leisure and spend it on shortbread biscuits, hobnobs and out of date bread to feed the pigeons in the park. Also, im looking forward to letting my facial hair run riot and scaring my grandchildren silly.

[jake-the-peg]

I think Geezer you are just suffering from an inability to see life through other people's eyes.

My father's 78 he stopped working about 18 moths ago when he really couldn't any more.

He's rather gone downhill since then. Work gave him a sense of being important, relevant and that's gone now.

There's a lesson there - if you invest too much in your job, when it goes it's like a divorce

[wolf63]

I had to take early retirement on health grounds when I was 40. I knew that I was ill and unable to work but it took a long time for me to adjust to no longer having a job. It wasn't the money aspect of it it was the 'respect' aspect of it. I was a civil servant with 25 years service doing the best that I could to help people. Then I became a non-person.

I started doing voluntary work and this helps. But I can understand that a person who has done a job all their working life and enjoyed the work could suffer a drop in self esteem and direction to their life if they retire.

I know a couple who both retired at 65 and then both went off and got other full-time jobs and worked for a good few years.

Most people are content to work until the 'normal' retirement age and then go off and enjoy their retirement.

There is no right and no wrong and there is no such thing as the PEOPLE.

[standian]

I don't want to know the name of the young boys - what am I going to do with that information and anyway they will be changed. I wouldn't mind working as long as I can - and many of the HR issues that I am involved in are around individuals (not PEOPLE) wanting to continue working as it gives them that sense of self-worth and value - not always about the money. And Dr. Kelly - not that bothered either way - whatever this information is won't make me change my mind really. So does that mean that I am not one of the PEOPLE? Fine by me.