nah not so lucky so no public paid for gold plated pension
just an ordinary joe earning a living

so it was your computer not you that had annual health checks, not you,
see I was worried for you that you might have been working an an unhealthy environment


turns out you were in insurance, how unhealthy is that

It did no harm at all to my bank balance.

but the STRESS man, what do the actuaries say about people's chance of dying early if you have been in insurance


you can't take it with you, and you will only be able to leave 50% to the Mrs, unless you have bought one of the pensions not available to the common oik

All none protected rights funds can provide up to 100% spouses benefits, none protected rights must provide 50% spouses benefits. Stress is there in all jobs, my mate, a senior metalologist, was supervising a 'melt' when one of his men fell into it, now that's stress. I never took the job home with me, the founder of the company was the same, he died last year one month short of his 101'st birthday.

Stress

when I was 17 I had to handle the death of a midshipman who was in charge of a deck mounted mortar, it failed to go off - until he put his head over the barrel to see what was not happening..............

STRESS

Well you started it.

nope, I don't start stress - that is caused by other people
it just depends on how (if) you recognise it and how you handle it

I sat down and wrote out a load of notes as to my life with a view to expanding it and providing references etc for my family and I actually felt better because I had written it down. It made more sense to me, and after all those years I now realise what I did wrong and what I did right (I won't say what the winner was).

and since my very first computer was owned by HMG back in 1960's and my first programming course was in 1970 where I learnt the now defunct ALGOL I could almost say I was at the "forefront of technology" but the phrase hadn't been invented then

A philosopher indeed, death, pain, injustice, well being, love, hate and fear, we experience them all. I am now the family elder and keep on attempting to remember how my grandfather handled the job, he was a Victorian and the nicest and best man I have ever known.

Stress is relative to who is suffering from it, Churchill must have felt it many times, but all it achieved was to make him stronger.

there, the voice of knowledge, I thought it was what came out of the bottle next to his bed


surely the worst stress was Clemmie's not knowing what was happening to him