There has been a lot of discussion about changes to public sector pensions and once again, they're all complaining. They will have to pay more and work longer but a teacher interviewed on the news tonight was whining that he would have to consider whether or not he would remain a teacher because he wanted his pension to be based on his final salary. When they showed the amount he would get I was shocked because it will take me more than ten years to receive the equivalent of one year of his pension.
This person is also of an age that he would have received a free university education because women like me worked hard from the day we left school and paid a lot of tax so that he could enjoy his free education giving him the opportunity of a well paid career with a lot more holiday than most of us get.
I am sure I am not the only retired lady who has often worked more than one job at a time in order to pay the rent and bills because women have never been paid as much as men and right up to the day I retired I was still not receiving the same salary as male colleagues (some of whom did very little). After working all my life and paying taxes and National Insurance, I have never been in the privileged position of being able to buy my own house or take holidays, either here or abroad so I suggest these greedy people thank their lucky stars.
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