Is it the weather or the fact we have had two bank holidays this week, I am finding it so difficult to concentrate on work today? Everything I attempt seems to end in a mess. Bring on retirement (maybe in another 20 years if I am lucky).
Doesn't help that it seems more like November than June out there.
I'm scan reading a bunch of documents but don't seem to be taking any of it in.
Retirement? I thought just permies got to do that. We just pay into our pension pots for the fun of it!
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Shaun
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Yep, my pension will not even pay for a years electric when I do retire and I have been paying in since I was 19. (Fortunately not a lot). My pension plan is work until I cannot drive or my brain packs in whichever arrives first.
I was hoping to retire to a nice little mansion in North East Thailand at some stage but what seemed easily achievable ten years ago now seems a substantial lottery win away.
At least now I'm getting paid peanuts for a job that I enjoy doing rather than being paid a lot for a job that I fell out of love with when it became all about cost reduction, outsourcing and offshoring.
Like yourself I've been paying into pensions since 19. Now got two fozen company pensions (one index linked), two sad little pensions from short term roles and two current pensions. So, six pensions and between the lot of them there won't even be enough to support me in a cardboard box on a beach somewhere!
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Pensions aren't worth the paper they are written on!!! I have I think 2 or 3 frozen ones, they are worthless. Invest in property thats the way to go for the future, the rental market is excellent at the mo.
-- Edited by Amanda on Saturday 9th of June 2012 11:32:47 AM
Used to have two rentals but the last divorce put paid to that!
On the not worth the paper that they're written on I have to disagree as I think that if I tried hard I could negotiate an exchange for 30 years of contributions for a whole ream of printer paper... Not the expensive stuff of course, just the Tesco home brand.
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Unfortunately I think that they'll probably have to end up selling us to organ harvesters in South East Asia Steve in order to pay off their student loans!
If in old age you wake up one day in an ice bath don't say that I didn't warn you!
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