Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

Most of the bank bailout money has been recovered, the current debt is around £20billion I think, not much in the grand scheme of things. And I happen to agree that the common 'person' gets routinely shafted by governments of all hues.

 

What a great send off - sad to see skilled jobs leave the area.

Shame something like this didn't happen at Aunt Bessie's, but Birds Eye let people go in dribs and drabs instead.

 

Would be nice to see a HMS Bounty replica in the other dry dock beside it. Especially as the other dry dock is close to Blaydes House.

 

I have to admit at the age of 59 and having done manual work all my days...I'm absolutely knackered most weeks.I drive a forklift but it also involves regular handballing.I've cut to 3 shifts a week now and spend my days off recuperating.

It may sound cynical but I firmly believe that many men and women of a similar age and generation will do well to draw their pension,it's killing people and I can only visualise more hikes in pension age for the next generation(I've told my 4 grown up kids to invest as much as possible into workplace pensions).

It's somewhat ironic and hypocritical that the main perpetrator of this act of betrayal retired aged 61 with a £1.8 million pension pot...

 

I know what you mean Ric. I took early retirement last Wednesday as I feel knackered. Working nights did for me but the company were great as I reduced from 4 nights to 3 and then 2 for the last 3 months.
Looking forward to a bit of normality.

 

I wish you well in your retirement and hope that you find a decent hobby or pastime that will keep you in some sort of shape.I worked nights for years on a couple of occasions and yes,it did the same to me...How old are you if you don't mind me asking?

 

I hope you don't find that 'normality' in fact involves going to work. When my old man retired years ago now age 65 he hadn't a clue what to do with himself, spent half his time in the garage polishing garden tools just to get out from under my mum's feet. Didn't do him any good at all.
I heard somebody famous a while ago saying that her retirement plan was to spend a third of her time doing something that brought a bit of money in, another third giving something back to 'society' and the final third doing whatever she liked. I thought that was an excellent plan and I've roughly stuck with it for the last 10 years. But my income source will dry up next year and I'm starting to wonder what I'll do with the extra time as I think part-time jobs for old farts might be thin on the ground...

 

Just turned 62.

 

Loads of planning means that hopefully I do not have to work anymore. No mortgage so can always sell and buy a mansion back up north.

 

^^^^^^^
Good post .
I'm 55 and have worked in a printers for 10 years .
Before that I spent nearly 20 years on building site and 8 years a butcher .
It becomes really tiring after you get past 50 especially getting up at 5am .
To have a blanket retirement age where somebody that works as a bricklayer etc as somebody that works in an office is just nuts .

 

Im 59 and I've been a bricklayer on site for 42 years and just about every joint and bone in my body aches everyday!!!,so i agree they should let brickies retire before office workers!!!.... **** knows what ill do when i retire like!!!.....probably die within three months!!!

 

I’m 66 in August having been a self employed in plumbing and heating for 30 years and still working 5 days a week, not as many hours as I used to, and I probably won’t fully retire when I get my pension, but domestic plumbers spend practically all day working on the floor, so our knees are knackered, I’m lucky as I’ve worn knee pads and so far am ok, brickies and plasterers are usually ****ed up by the age of 55, they have no chance of working 40 hours at 68 when it rises.

Most heavy manual workers have health issues, yet civil servants get early retirement and most of them sit at a desk all day, surely it makes sense to let workers retire early and a young person can get full time and more productive work.

 

TwoWrights has a stunning stat about pensioners which I’m sure he can explain better than me

 

I had an extension built at home a few years ago. The builder was just one bloke who had a network of mostly post retirement age tradesmen who he brought in when he needed to, including brickies, roofmen, chippies etc. They were all quite happy just doing a bit here and there when they felt like it and it worked well enough for me. Have to say the plasterers were all young blokes though.

 

Lots of talk on here about manual workers getting to retire earlier letting young folk in. I have no experience of this but how easy is it to get young people interested in manual work or trades? Or do they all want to be you-tubers, games developers, etc?

 

There seems to be plenty of people wanting building work doing so you could take a bit easier approach .?

 

My 40 year old son wants to rebel against his aristocratic background and get a job.
Then along came COVID-19 !

 

I wish.....but their is "no taking it easy" in the bricklaying world!!!!.... It's all or nothing!!