Bread blessed in this kingdom of 5.8 million inhabitants and 2.97 million employees on the labor market, in shortage of manpower.
Copenhagen
At 6 a.m., Svend Blankholm, 71, gets up to go to work at a butcher’s shop in Horsholm shopping center, north of Copenhagen. To the retreat since he reached the age of 65, he continues to work as he has always done since he was “entered working life as an apprentice at age 15». «I love my job, I prefer to stay active instead of slumping in my armchair in front of the TVhe confides.
Certainly he did notreally need money to make ends meet» with his pension (basic and supplementary) of 23,000 crowns (3100 euros) gross per month. “I work because I want to, about 20 hours a week, enough time to play badminton, and my children encourage me to keep an active retirement to live longer.» Svend see «feels younger and in a good mood by staying activeespecially as his wife, Susanne, 70, retired,continues his part-time job, in a company…
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