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Originally Posted by MUMMIBOO
Hum lets see now i think that for the person who maybe a librarien or other equivelent should work til they are 67 but the person who works their guts out like my daddiboo (he is an asphalter) should retire on a good pension at an early age.
What i am trying to say is it should depend on the job they do it gets me how there can be men who work 65 hours a week and slogg their guts out eg: labourers, brickies, asphalters, binmen and so on and yet they get paid pitence for the hardest jobs never complaining!
and on the other hand you get mr Smith who works as a manager in a 9-5 job who barely even gets his hands dirty and can't stand it if he has to lift his fingers gets paid Łks.
surely the man who works the hardest should be paid the most!
You may think i am wrong but i see daddiboo's hands covered in blisters on blisters and burns on burns day in and day out and i know that by the hour he earns less than me and he never complains about it.
Daddiboo and i know that if he had to work until the new age of pension he would never collect it.
That is why i think it is wrong i dont expect you all to agree with me though.
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My job is tertiary, however it requires a lot of skill and training in order to do it.(I'm currently able to program in over 6 languages, can script in three more, I design, build, and test sytems over distributed computing for an industry that handles billions of pounds a day) Why should my retirement be compromised because I do a job that not everyone could do. It takes a certain mindset to be able to do it. I may not be physically tired when I get home but I can surely be mentally drained. I do have respect for those who work in physical jobs but please don't think that their work is somehow superior. It takes a whole lot of people to make this world go round and without the order and planning labourers would rarely do an efficient job. Likewise how would a builder know what to build without an architect sitting on his arse and drawing the plans.
Ian