DONE DIRT CHEEEP!!!
Posted on 11/04/2009 7:23:12 PM PST by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Retirees have something else to look forward to besides playing golf -- much better sleep -- particularly if they have decent retirement benefits and retire relatively early.
That's what Dr. Jussi Vahtera of the University of Turku in Finland and colleagues found in a study of 14,714 people who had retired from the French national gas and electric company. But because the workers in the study had excellent retirement benefits, including generous pensions, the findings don't apply to everyone, Vahtera noted in a prepared statement.
"In countries and positions where there is no proper pension level to guarantee financial security beyond working age, however, retirement may be followed by severe stress disturbing sleep even more than before retirement," Vahtera said.
Sleep tends to get more disturbed with age, the researchers note in the journal Sleep, while work schedules and job stress can also disrupt sleep. To investigate how retirement affected sleep, the researchers followed the workers for seven years before they retired and for seven years afterwards.
Their average age at retirement was 55, and 79 percent of the study participants were men. All were surveyed annually about several health and social factors, including sleep disturbances. Just 4 percent had retired due to health reasons.
While the percentage of people who reported sleep disturbances crept up gradually as they aged -- from 23 percent seven years before retirement to 25 percent the year before a person retired -- it dropped sharply when a person did retire. One year after leaving the work force, 18 percent of the study participants reported sleep disturbances. But this percentage inched up again, reaching 21 percent seven years after retirement.
Men saw the greatest improvement in sleep, as did managers, people who worked the night-shift ..
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Doh!
you mean I would sleep better knowing someone else was paying for my retirement??? yeah i guess so
I’d sleep better now if ss was not going under, and my ira was not going to be wiped out by hyperinflation.
Wonder how much this “study” cost...
I made massive payments to my retirement to compensate for lower wages compared to the private sector.
In 28 months I will retire at age 55.
Then I will go BACK to work, paying for the Lazy POS welfare recipients who won’t work at all!
Class envy always works!
you mean I would sleep better knowing someone else was paying for my retirement??? yeah i guess so
What do you mean someone else? Either people put into a pension plan through monthly deductions or they put in the time to receive a pension. Either way it is deserved and should be given. It is not a welfare plan as you sorta suggested. Everyone has every opportunity to work for a company that has a pension plan...join the military...or get a government job. I just don’t understand your nasty post.
In 28 months I will retire at age 55. Then I will go BACK to work, paying for the Lazy POS welfare recipients who won’t work at all!
If you made massive investments/payments into your retirement, why are you going back to work?
In addition, if your were making such terrible money in the government sector, how was it possible you were able to make those, "Massive payments" to your retirement"?
Where do you work? What education level do you have? I guess you feel that millions of elderly are living off tax payers too.
dragnet2,
You have no idea how low a salary government workers make. It is pitiful that these workers sacrafice for years at a small percentage as the fat cats who work in the private sector make. Nobody in the military or government is getting million dollar bonus’....the private sector constantly gives these huge bonus’ to private workers.
What do we have here? A non-military government employee?
I planned ahead!
Lets get this straight now slick, I not talking about members of our military. I’m talking non-military government employee parasites.
Good for you!
I am in the military and that is why I stand up to the government workers because I see that they do work hard regardless of what people say. The workers in my office stay way past their regular hours and work throughout the day. Granted they don’t go on ships for sea duty like I do but many of them are really loyal hard working folks.
Slick? lol. That made me laugh. Have a good night. I have to leave for PT soon (I am six hours ahead of the U.S.)
In 28 months I will retire at age 55. Then I will go BACK to work, paying for the Lazy POS welfare recipients who won’t work at all!
If you made massive investments/payments into your retirement, why are you going back to work?
In addition, if your were making such terrible money in the government sector, how was it possible you were able to make those, "Massive payments" to your retirement?
I planned ahead!
How is that possible?
Feel free to answer the question, as your comments are clearly not consistent.
I was a cop for 32 years. Kiss my ass.
Be forewarned!
Your blanket condemnation may come back to haunt you!
anyway, people without pensions don't retire.
Can ya hear all the tax payers laughing at this ludicrous comment? Get real....
We got pro-big gov phony's on a conservative site!
What a surprise!
If your were making such terrible money in the government sector, how was it possible you were able to make those, “Massive payments” to your retirement?
I check each day to see what the liberals are devising to get their hands on ‘retirement’ and or pension funds that are still solvent. I fully expect given the state of UNION pensions that those who have saved are going to be required to share.
Just wait until they let the Bush tax cuts wither on the proverbial vine.
Why not just answer the question? You made the comment. lol...
Life is good.
As a matter of fact dragNUT2 from police officers, fire fighters, and emergency personal from all over the country I would like to say kiss all of our asses!
It sounds like you sacrificed and earned your retirement. You don’t need to explain to the dragnet guy.
It sounds like you sacrificed and earned your retirement. You don’t need to explain to the dragnet guy.
Nope, he don't have to explain squat...But the fact remains, when someone throws out comments on a public forum, you should expect to answer legitimate questions, that were generated by seemingly inconsistent comments. lol
Hey, it looks like a government employees convention here. I must have entered the wrong door...lol
You can say what you want as you don’t know a thing. I have been on this site a long time not as long as you the California liberal who lives in a state that after Mass is the most liberal of all. Being that you live in a state such as that. I find you to be a phoney who lives in a big government state and obviously supports it. You can’t even pay your bills. Plus have you ever done anything to assist the United States except complain? I didn’t think so.
Yeah, them soldiers should have to pay for their own retirement. We all know they are hauling down the big bucks and do precious little for it /s
OK, here it is.
Back in the 70’s when jobs were hard to find, I was fresh out of the US Navy with A wife and a young infant to feed when the unemployment office called me to go to work at my present job.
I was enrolled in college to take advantage of my GI bill benefits to better my education.
I went to work making $4.00 an hour, but decided to stay rather than get a college education.
My job consisted of pipeline construction in the summer, and cleaning ditches that provided raw water to our treatment plants in the winter(all done by hand shovel).
I’ve had to work my way up, step by step, for 30+ years!
Please direct your attention to door #14.
I have to ask: Where are you in the scheme of things? do you have a pension or some means of support when you retire? If not, why not? Are you near/in retirement?
Sic ‘em, dragnet.....!
“People with pensions sleep better after retirement” WOW Who woulda thunk this is possible.
DONE DIRT CHEEEP!!!
You have put yourself in a tough place. Many GS jobs are NOT deserving of a pension yet many GS jobs ARE deserving of a pension. Watch out with the battles you pick.
Here is the bottom line.
If people entered into an agreement in which they would receive benefits in lieu of pay, they deserve those benefits.
All these cops and soldiers arent for Gov expansion, but they deserve what they signed on for, and in many cases they deserve more.
At the very least they deserve some respect.
I have a thing with seemingly inconsistent statements...They just seem to jump out!
L0L
These guys are too easy...lol
Well said my!
How were we to know that the f88cking government would try to suck the taxpayers dry?
Now those of us that sacrificed are the GD bad guys!
After I got off of active duty, I got a government job as a civilian. The duty took me to Vietnam a couple of times, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, all over Africa and Latin America. I ended up spending my last four years in Havana. These were not posts for non-hackers. I’m enjoying the fruits of my labor now as a retiree. Sorry if that offends you.
Just as I expected, a great American story. Be proud!
Worst yet. Some sacrifice and get screwed anyway in the bureaucratic crossfire.
I am still ducking.
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