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OT Colonoscopy tomorrow (Friday)
Lesley wrote:
Same here- I'm safe in my job for the moment (there;s some talk of a 10% cut in NHS staff over the next few years also our trust merged with another one so at some point they are going to be looking at duplication of services although the other trust doesn't have a sexual health service so I might escape the chop) and we have some modest savings to fall back on for a while if we had to although they're supposed to be for supplementing my income when I retire but they won't last too long. I;ve seen recently a lot of friends losing their jobs/working reduced hours etc to be anything less than aware if I were to get seriously ill or lose my job it wouldn't be very long before we could be in serious financial trouble...Getting a new job would be the worse, I get pretty generous sick pay apparently but there really are very few jobs out there and where there are jobs some people are taking the p**s, my friend Hugh when he was made redundant was "head hunted" for a salary nearly half of what he had been getting- he didn't take it Having gone through unemployment and seen others do the same, it's not always easy to decide what to do. I eventually took something - several temporary somethings, actually - paying far less than I had been earning before just to get working again, while I know some people - one in particular - who thought to do so would ruin their chances of ever getting work again at more or less the same professional level and pay. But unless you are absolutely at the top of your profession, a lot of employers prefer to hire more senior people from within and almost never offer an unemployed outsider a senior position. The most obvious case of a person I knew in that situation eventually switched to a new area, putting a lot of money into his education and starting again from the bottom. That strategy doesn't always work, either. He was offered a good position in the US, but turned it down because one of the family has serious health issues and he wasn't convinced the insurance they offered would cover the cost of care. -- Cheryl |
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