I once worked with a man, in a public sector job, who'd been with the organisation since leaving school at 17. He told me he chose the job because of the pension. I didn't know anyone else who thought like that in their teens His name wasn't Brian though.
In the sixties, when my friends and I were teenagers, pensions weren't high on our agenda. 👠👜🍰🍾🍸⛸🎹🎼🎸
If you watch Emmerdale you'll have seen the intro to the programme which features a group of people in a spoof story room working out what happens next.
There's guy who always suggests things that have absolutely no emotion or normal human activity.
For one of his suggestions he has a huge flow chart to prove that it was possible for a character to have a really improbable obscure family relationship with another character.
Funnily enough his name is Brian & every time it comes on I see our Brian in the room saying, when asked what can be done to put some spark into the programme, "Fred Boothroyd could lose his home & struggle because he didn't pay into a pension scheme".
Lol.
You'll never see Emmerdale in the same light again.