[quote=harvey]If our public pension system doesn’t change by the time my kids are out of high school, I will encourage them to apply for city firefighter jobs and do so every year they are in college. If they get the firefighter job, even after a couple of years of college, I will recommend they drop out of school and go with the firefighter job.
I have no doubt that someday, when they are 50 years old, my comfortably retired firefighter children will visit my grave and thank me. Because their former classmates – who were foolish enough to study accounting, science, engineering, etc. – will be still facing twenty more years before they can stop working.[/quote]
That’s if they don’t have a heart attack or stroke from stress, inhale too much smoke and burn their lungs, get second or third degree burns and have to go on prolonged disability, or get trapped on a hillside and perish trying to save a neighborhood. The possibility exists that YOU could outlive them.
