Sounds like you need a job in market research.
One word: annuity. Go to a reputable insurance company like Aetna or Prudential and get an annuity. Build up your own pension over the years and you’ll be sitting pretty when it’s time to retire. The younger you buy the better the deal.
[quote]Now if only someone would pay me for reading, studying history and languages, watching films, going for bike rides and swims, hanging out in cafes, talking to friends, sleeping etc I would have a jop I TRULY enjoyed.
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Actually, reading what I wrote, I’ve changed my mind.
In the past I have been paid for the following:
Playing games with children
Reading Magazines
Chatting with friends, smoking, drinking free booze and changing the CDs in a nightclub.
Finding interesting sites on the Internet.
(and probably a few other things I enjoy doing).
But I still hate the ‘jobs’. I hate that I have to do it, and that I have to do it at a certain time every day.
Brian
Incubus makes a good suggestion, don’t rely on government pension schemes - you pay lot’s of money without any guaranteed return.
I don’t really like my job. Well, I would like it if I wouldn’t be tucked away in my little cubicle at the office all day, working at site is (was) much more fun and I got around more, which I like. It does pay well however and is easy money.
There was a time I laughed at people who talked about retirement. Now I am 45 and have absolutely sweet fuck all. I don’t even have a bank account and I don’t make much money either. Sure would like to hear more about annuities. Thanks.
Work…hate it! Whoever invented it should be dug up and shot. I work because I have to not because I want to. Although my job is ok now and for the most part I enjoy what I’m doing. If I had my choice of never having to work again and working at a job I like. I’d still choose sitting home on my lazy butt. Why wasn’t I born rich 
This is how my insurance agent explained it to me. Imagine traveling across a desert with a bottle of water. You may reach your destination with some water left in your bottle or you may die of thirst midway. Annuities are like oases in the desert where you get to refill your bottle at regular intervals, so you’ll never have to worry about running out of water. So let’s say you’re 40. You put in $70,000 a year for 20 years. When you turn 60, you start collecting $180,000 every year until you die. In other words, the longer you live, the more you’ll collect, and the younger you start, the less you have to put in each year for the same payoff.
“The curse of the drinking classes”
Thank you Oscar.
Work is a necessary evil. Getting paid to do something you like isn’t work.
70,000 a year! I don’t even make 70,000 a year!
well bob, just be sure you aren’t like my dad…he died two weeks after he turned 60… 
60! I don’t wanna live to be 60!