Dear LPG Readers,

Did you know that the 7th March 2022 will be the first day of a week dedicated to careers, jobs and stuff? 

You could well be asking why the Lewisham Pensioners’ Gazette, an organisation which focusses in on Pensioners interests and topics, feels the need to have anything to do with National Careers Week?  This is supposed to be a week when young people who are just beginning to look at the start of their work journey, take the time out to focus in on just what their ambitions are and what industry they want to get into when they leave school.

But we pensioners who have finally got out of the other side of having to get up for work every day should be celebrating too.  It is so easy to forget your contribution to the smooth running of whatever industry you chose to follow (or that chose to follow you through life) after you left school all that time ago. 

The difference between us and those youngsters who are just about to jump in, is that we have lots of memories that it is so easy to forget about after a few years of having retired, but whether you were a teacher, factory worker, accountant, IT programmer, electrician, university lecturer, nurse, Lawyer or a mum or dad who dedicated their lives to rearing their children, there has to be a tail to tell on the subject. 

Many of us will have worked during the 1950s when work was all about getting over World War II, the swinging 60s’ as they were called, or during the mid-1970s when we experienced the three-day-week, while others might remember just how much easier it was to be so discontented with your job that you could give a week’s notice with the confidence that you would have another job to start by the beginning of the next week.  You may have done some work that was top secret at the time but that you can talk about now, or remember something you did that was catastrophic at the time but which you laugh about now. 

Retirement and its experiences often result in our forgetting the realities of being one of the world’s workers but, with some forty years of work behind us and four weeks’ notice of a very special week for our teenagers, LPG would like to invite readers to look backwards and share a few of their experiences on the subject having got to the other side. 

Maureen B

For LPG

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