[QUOTE 4240240, member: 9609"]of course there will still be some people in their 60s capable of hard physical work, and of course there will be people in their 60s not capable of some stress in a desk job - But in the grand scale of things, considerably more people struggle in their 60s in hard physical jobs as opposed to those in the office environment, pushing the retirement age out is most unfair to people who have hard physical jobs.
I always think that is a very unfair statement, some environments and communities make it very difficult for children to even understand the importance of doing well at school, I would have been 17 or 18 when I realised that I had made some pretty poor choices. If i had wished to pursue a career as a brain surgeon, I would have needed to have told my parents to move me to another area and another school, preferably a private school when i was aged about 3.[/QUOTE]
A guy I used to work with, 2 brothers and 1 sister, neither of their parents did much regarding education and didn't encourage their 4 kids instead knocked them back. The mother claimed that a guy who worked at the same supermarket as her had a degree yet he stacked shelves for a living so education was a waste of time because there were no jobs out there. All 4 kids are late 30's early 40's and barely litterate, my mate wasn"t afraid of hard work but his partner runs the household finances/pays the bills etc because he cannot. No doubt he will struggle to save for later in life/pension.
