rethinking assumptions: redundancy

Being made redundant, as is happening to many these days, can be a huge and disabling shock if your life-style is based on a regular well-paying job with a pension. 

It's essential to keep checking the things we're taking for granted, and being aware that the only things you can really be sure of are "death and taxes." Older people in the West, who've been through changes like the Depression or World War 2, are probably more fitted to coping with the current changes because they've "been there before".

Time spent in revisiting our underlying assumptions, and in looking at what they're based on, can give us a better picture of the realities we're up against in our own lives. It may not improve our financial situation, but it will improve our emotional state and ability to cope.