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When did I say I'm not?
And I'm not in that position because my government salary was great... I spent most of my time underpaid but if I'm being honest I lack the education to get a tech industry job and I'm not a salesperson. I did what I could to survive and with dual incomes and condo life and no kids was able to do financially better than most people + due to timing/age I was able to buy my real estate during a time when it was less than half the cost of what it is now.
The only reason I can consider this option is because of some inheritence through death in the family. Nothing about my government job or the pension would have allowed me to make such a decision without that windfall. I'll still have to work too, the pension isn't enough to live on when I eventually do get it in 4.5 years, I'm just done with working for the friggin government and 5 more years trying to max that shit out on top of the 4.5 I have left (total of 9.5 years) at that place isn't worth my sanity.
I don't know why you keep saying every CP staff is entitled to it, they're not. That's not how it works. You have to put in a minimum of 20 years to get ANYTHING tangible back. And besides that, what good is pension if your salary at the job isn't enough to survive on to get there? It might as well not exist. That may be the case for CP to be honest, as we already established being a postal worker is not a particularly skilled job so maybe there shouldn't be. That's what it may come down to, it USED to be a big bonus of the job but now I don't even think it's something to consider because you can't survive long enough to get there, it's an unattainable goal. In my opinion, going forward a number of years, I think that part of the job will actually disappear for CP and their workforce will just be made up of TFW type people or replaced by automation of some sort. Same with things like bus drivers and a variety of other previously reasonable ways to live/build a family with.
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