is the day job THAT bad
Sometimes it is, sometimes it isnīt. Its definitely not a healthy one.
Life expectancy and health, let alone getting/maintaining a medical are different animals. These days you can be drugged to age 95 and still be sick between 45 and 95....
Iīm turning 50 in 1,5 years - my eyesight was way better when I was 40. My doctor tells me, this is normal and the deteorating will continue, with plateaus and "sharp cliffs".... he also does "medicals" for bus drivers and he says EVERYONE knows that 99% of all bus drivers cannot meet the requirements at 62,62,64 ish. Yet they need to work til 67. As we will have to (and btw, why is there no cover for the 2 years gap between 65 and 67 that we already have ?).
And who will hire a 63 old busdriver or ex pilot ? Despite all the fanfares, the bosses just want young and cheap labourers.
Another case of the nice politicians just twisting and changing the rules without remorse. Just for them, the pensions never get cut. I wonder why....
And oh, btw, I started at 17. The same beancounter that makes my life miserable starts to study at20, 21 and gets out of University at 27-28. which makes me work 10 years longer than them. IS THIS FAIR ?
So if they want me to fly to 67, fine, but then change the medicals. Oh, and the cockpit door width, if I need a wheel chair to go to work, it needs to fit through there....