twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
Well done. I can tell you've been working hard at thatYou wanna bet? I'm still in employment. I used to be unmanageable. Now I'm unmanaged.
Bliss!
New job required before I self distrust
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twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
No time like the present. Begin now
No time like the present. Begin now
Wish I could but then I wouldn't be able to buy bikes or bike parts or feed the kids. Think my only option is to try self employment or find a new ball and chain I enjoy a little more.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Just today I called into to see HR to arrange two days of leave. One to attend a visa application interview in London and one to allow me to get to Knockengorroch festival mid afternoon on a Friday. My requests couldn't be refused as the first request was for mandatory leave and the second couldn't be refused because I'm currently working on Fridays as a favour to the school.
I'm also starting my summer holiday early at the end of the third week in June and will be returning in the third week in October. Financially I'm marginally worse off. Workload and stress wise I'm quids in.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
Good man. Managing the managers 
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Employment in a job which has good trade union representation and a very good pension plan is one of the long term benefits few self-employed or private employees appreciate until it's too late- that's why teachers civil servants and university lecturers start to smile a lot as they reach their late 50s....
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Can't be that good if they gotta wait til their late 50s.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Or in the US again. Bodyguarding was pretty stress free, easy and chilled.
CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
- Location
- London
Self-employment every time.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
I never mentioend bankers..... ex-military, firemen, community midwives, district nurses or policemen.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Again, why waiting their late 50s?
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
It's not so hot for recent entrants to the profession. While the pension payable is now 1/57th of salary for every year worked instead of 1/80th, the lump sum has disappeared and the pension is payable at 62 with actuarial reductions as opposed to 55 with actuarial reductions. Under the current pressures in schools, I don't envisage many new entrants reaching pensionable age before bailing out for other employment. Very few of my colleagues are smiling as they hang on in the classroom for their pensions to become payable.
Very few entrants to the profession do so because of the pension scheme. It's only in the past few years that I have come to realise how good it is. I doubt that 'How attractive is your pension scheme?' is a question raised by any candidates for any job at the start of a career. Retirement seems to be a lifetime away at the time and beer, sex and good times are more pressing issues as far as quality of life is concerned.
Ten years ago I actively encouraged folk to join what I regarded as one of the most rewarding, in terms of job satisfaction, careers. Now, at best, I am non-committal when asked about teaching as a career. The job has become a GCSE grade delivery unit management one and education is a peripheral task.
Andy_R
Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
- Location
- County Durham
must be if Kevin Costner could do it
