希腊工作的退休年龄归类为“艰巨”的男性五十五岁，女性的退休年龄最早为55岁。由于这也是该州开始铲除宽敞的养老金的那一刻，超过600个希腊职业以某种方式设法将自己归类为艰苦的养老金：美发师，广播电台播音员，作家，作家，音乐家以及不断地。
(The retirement age for Greek jobs classified as "arduous" is as early as fifty-five for men and fifty for women. As this is also the moment when the state begins to shovel out generous pensions, more than six hundred Greek professions somehow managed to get themselves classified as arduous: hairdressers, radio announcers, writers, musicians, and on and on and on.)