The Retirement Thread
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Jul 2022
6:50pm, 20 Jul 2022
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macca 53
Going back a few pages I managed to organise my Interrail pass (and did it first class) for less than the advertised first class fare for my first journey, Home-London KX. Definitely a bit fiddly to do but it seems a very economically viable way of getting round Europe 😁
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Jul 2022
6:51pm, 20 Jul 2022
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Ness
Excellent!
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Jul 2022
10:05pm, 20 Jul 2022
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alpenrose
Congratulations Louise!  1976? I was working but remember spending lots of time on the beach and regularly smelling smoke coming from the forest being on fire only a few miles away. And the smell coming from the local pig farm on the balmy evenings. |
Jul 2022
10:02am, 25 Jul 2022
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Velociraptor
Paperwork all collected, expedition to the post office to put in my NHS pension application planned for this morning. 12 weeks off now and I don't think I'll be going back. For someone who's quite emotionally lazy, I'm expending an unreasonable amount of energy being angry about stuff from my career. This morning with the news being full of the current NHS workforce crisis I'm fucking furious. This is an aspect of retirement that never occurred to me. |
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Jul 2022
10:04am, 25 Jul 2022
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Velociraptor
(Not recent Federation stuff. Historical stuff. REALLY historical stuff.)
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Jul 2022
10:08am, 25 Jul 2022
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Ness
I so understand where you're coming from, Velociraptor After what happened at the end of my teaching career, I was somewhat surprised and irritated to then get one of the teaching agency contact me because they were desperate for staff due to the covid crisis. That pales into insignificance compared to what's going on in the NHS though.
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Jul 2022
10:16am, 25 Jul 2022
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Velociraptor
Teaching's very similar. And as for social work, I don't think anyone should have to do that for more than about five years before being offered a supported move to a low stress career.
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Jul 2022
10:20am, 25 Jul 2022
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Velociraptor
And old blokes below the line in the Times going, "They're all snowflakes, they call stuff bullying that wouldn't have been bullying 30 years ago." Well, fuck them, I was there 30 years ago and even though we just sucked it up and curtseyed and turned ourselves inside out trying to work out how we could lick these chaps' arses to their satisfaction because after all some of our colleagues seemed to manage to be golden boys, it WAS bullying.
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Jul 2022
10:21am, 25 Jul 2022
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Cerrertonia
There was a very good article, with quite a lot of data, in the FT last week on this kind of topic. It was trying to work out why the UK workforce has got so much smaller in the last couple of years - basically EU workers leaving + lots of people unable to work with untreated long covid that the rest of Europe doesn't seem to be having + quite a lot of fifty-somethings in professional jobs 'becoming economically inactive'.
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Jul 2022
10:24am, 25 Jul 2022
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Ness
Indeed. Knowing the workload a social worker has I would imagine it would be so emotionally draining. I manage just under 28 years of teaching. I'm not sure if current school ethos and support mechanisms will allow the current crop of new teachers to keep going for that long. |
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