retirement
In a complete and total surprise, my cousin presented to me yesterday the result of a grand conspiracy in the Ogre community to commemorate my time as project lead - a specially designed, unique Ogre statuette! Thumbnails below, click for more detail… <a target="_blank title=“Sinbad holding the statue by sjstreeting, on Flickr” href=“http://www.flickr.com/photos/35150516@N03/4823660431/"> <a target="_blank title=“Front of statue by sjstreeting, on Flickr” href=“http://www.flickr.com/photos/35150516@N03/4823661079/"> <a target="_blank title=“Back of the statue by sjstreeting, on Flickr” href=“http://www.
So, in our local juristiction we’re finally having the discussion about retirement age, ie raising it to 67 by 2031, and probably higher than that later (not mentioned yet, but it’s bound to happen). Somehow, this is a shock to some people. The fact is that the welfare system, retirement packages, and even the economy in general were just not constructed on the understanding that an increasing number of people would be retired for up to one third of their life.