Did your parents have a non-Social Security pension? Do you?
My father had a very small pension from local public service. My mother had none. I think that she was only part time at a couple of places that had pension plans. Where full time, I don't think there was a pension plan.
I have never worked anywhere with a pension plan, unless you count the single week I worked for the board of education before I quit, realizing I couldn't be a part of blowing tax money doing the job in the exceedingly in-efficient way they demanded. My husband is in a pension plan, again as a public employee. Both his parents had pensions: His father, like mine, from local public service. His mother, a secretary like my own mother, retired from a bank whose plan she participated in.
I see that there are many jobs that say they offer retirement plans, but jobs that almost no one is going to stick with over a lifetime--er, McDonald's, for example.
This is one of those questions for which I am interested in hearing from people whose parents live in countries other than the USA, too!
