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Message: [QUOTE="huskyrob1, post: 3022547, member: 1226"] A couple of things. A civil service job in Connecticut is a much more glamourous job than in the state of Florida. If you're a civil servant in Florida you are looked down on. If you're next door neighbor in CT "WORKS FOR THE STATE", you're like wow, he's got it made. Secondly, not sure about my facts here, but I see many many many CT civil servants retiring and drawing on their pensions who are only in their early fifties, after 30 years of service, which is a huge drain on the pension fund, and are allowed to work again. I'm not sure if the pension and 401k rules limit back to work hours though. I know a guy, former state employee, who retired at 52, drives an Audi SUV, and his job from 10pm to 6am before he retired, was to pickup highway roadkill. Maybe not that glamourous lol, but him and his wife put two kids through college, and you'll never guess what he's doing now. I've done ok in the private sector but still I can't see the pension fund problem getting under control unless painful changes are made. At the same time you can't take 30 years of hard work and trivialize it and tell those retirees they have to live with less than what they were promised. [/QUOTE]