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A helpful guide to work and finance in a time of change
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Jo Cummins
Jobs & Money correspondent |
THESE are uncertain times in the worlds of work and money.
Jobs and Money Extra is a Jersey Evening Post feature aimed at helping to give Islanders the advice, ideas and inspiration needed to make sense of modern life. In addition to articles by JEP journalists, Jobs and Money Extra includes financial and employment guest columnists.
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In both of these areas of vital concern to our readers, new challenges and concerns are arising from changes in the global economic climate as well as in circumstances closer to home.
With each Jersey industry going through its own period of upheaval, job prospects becoming suddenly very different to the familiar patterns, redundancy and redeployment now commonplace and major new employment legislation on the way, many Islanders are starting to think about their careers in new terms.
Meanwhile, the recent stock exchange slump, uncertainty over pensions, changes in the housing market and probable future increases in the tax burden imposed on individuals by the States, mean that they are also facing complex but vital questions about personal finances.
Add in the many issues raised by a steadily ageing population profile and it is clear that we are all in the process of making adjustments to a new world in which we will have to work longer (or, at least, differently), save harder, keep on learning new skills and change our expectations of what each stage of life should bring, while avoiding a bewildering range of pitfalls.
We will try to find the right, Jersey-specific answers to the sometimes baffling problems that beset modern life.
Contact Jo Cummins by post at Features Desk, Jersey Evening Post, PO Box 582, or e-mail at .
All communications must be accompanied by a name and contact details, but your name will not be published without your consent.
This article updated: 2004/10/01 12:18:08
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