I am bruised!

After anger comes fear, and after fear comes hurt and feelings of being let down. No doubt these will rapidly pass?

This week I have to ask questions about my pension, the change in role and consequently reduction in salary will obviously effect my pension and lump sum pay-out. The projection I received only a few months ago is now nul and void as a consequence of the management of change.

No doubt things could change and it's maybe unwise to secumb to worries about my pension at thirty-nine, but how about those in their fifties whom retirement is a looming prospect and any wage reduction (irrespective of pay protection) would have a hugely detrimental effect on their pension? Those who have worked for thirty years plus; have given their time, their commitment, their knowledge to providing and improving health care only to be demoted to mere drones as their career draws to a close. You can't move the goal posts so late in the game.

My projection suggested that I could retire at fifty-seven, by that logic I am already approaching half-way through my career. Much can change in eighteen years and time allows me to make extra preparations for my old age and provisions for EJT once I've gone.