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David In Indy:
There are so many concerns aren't there? So many different things COULD happen. I have listed 6 of them but there are many more. What concerns you the most?

Feel free to gripe and vent here if you wish. We are all friends and perhaps we can help each other. These are scary times right now for everyone.

My main concerns right now is my job, and a potential global recession which I think is probably unavoidable at this point. Hopefully it won't be as bad as some are predicting. I'm not worried too much about doom and gloom at this point though. But some of you may disagree with me.

Kerry:
I'm a government employee, so I'm not overly concerned about my job security. And I've never been into playing the stock market. Well not entirely, anyway. I have approx 1,000 shares in one company only. I hope they're okay.

I was talking to a friend last Wednesday, who told me that a mutual acquaintance, here in Sydney, has lost approx $800,000 on the stock market.

My major concern is the value of my superannuation. I have been employed by the same employer for nearly 29 years and plan on cashing-in my superannuation at the end of 2010. I hope everything will have steadied by then. Every week, for the past 29 years, I have been contributing 9% of my salary to my superannuation fund. My employer matches that by a further 6%. This combined 15% is invested by my superannuation fund both here and overseas. It's a government fund and they invest cautiously, so I hope my investment will be safe. I guess I'll find out in 2010!
     

optom3:
I have so many fears it is actually quite difficult keeping a lid on them. We have already had my husbands pension scheme go bust after 20 plus years of contributions. We moved here to start again, and I am scared witless that the business will go bankrupt, because if it does, not only will we lose absoloutely everything, but we will be thrown out of the country as well. No business, no Visa.
It is a wave of fear that almost paralyses me.$1.7 million in business and house down the pan and back to England in a recession there, but with no house or jobs.

I am having to literally go hour to hour never mind day to day. Each day we open for business is a another one less to worry about.  I am also having to cope with borrowing money from my parents, which is hard at my age. It means they are now worried about us all as well.

In fact I am just one big worry, full stop.  It gets very wearisome sometmes.Lurching from all the crisis with my son, stop, draw breath and now this. I just want some peace, for a little while !!!

Kerry:

I'm so sorry to hear that, Fiona. I hope everything turns out okay for you in the long run.

Front-Ranger:
I am most worried about my friends, especially those who are in poor health, unemployed, or overspent. Compared to the problems of some of my friends, I have nothing to worry about really.

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