Short excerpt from a YouTube interview in which host Ndubuisi 'Andy' Egwim asks Vanessa about common mistakes in career-to-medicine transitions. Vanessa highlights the inadequacy of expected NHS pensions — saying projected pension payouts 'don’t add up' mathematically — and links that shortfall to her pursuing entrepreneurial work as a supplementary retirement strategy.
So what are the commonest mistakes you've observed? I mean, from that your advantage of being a banker has come to medicine?
Definitely the pension aspect. I don't think we realize the low level of pensions we're going to get. Just mathematically speaking, it just doesn't add up at all. And it's just not just the energy, generally speaking. It just doesn't add up from a math to point of view. So. Meaning that when I I personally know that I will not get anything interesting as a pension. So I'm working. So probably that's why also the entrepreneurial aspect is coming, because I'm working. I'm like, Vanessa, you know, in 20, if you want to retire in 20 years, you're not going to get anything because it's just mathematically speaking, there won't be much.
