MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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Mrs DB just been made redundant for the 2nd time in 3 years. She works for a major UK charity in their corporate fundraising and I guess companies have less dosh to give to charity nowadays, and when the charity's income falls they have to make cuts too.
Less than ideal as the same thing happened to her at another charity at the start of the downturn a couple of years back.
And our coats are always on a shoogly peg in our office, depending on how the bank are feeling on any given day.
Dark times ahead I fear, although the positive spin is that at least Mrs DB can get a much needed change of scene, and get something that will maybe fit better with our daughter going to school soon - might be a blessing in disguise but it is hard to see the upside right now.
Im looking for staff for a three week job - low wages, need to be able to come to my office near Abingdon in Oxfordshire.
Email me if thats of use.
loads of stuff about if your prepared to work.. and travel. wanting to work around kids though is a definate disadvatage as there are 10 million mums out there wanting 9.15 till 2.30 jobs..
Hope something works out for Mrs DB and that your shoogly peg stabilises... Not much advice from me, but plenty of empathy.
Indeed, there are quite a few jobs out there and the more flexible you are both in hours and location, the more chance you have of finding one quickly.
Tis crap eh...
My wife in same boat. Gave birth to our first child 8 weeks ago and the week after she got home from Hospital her boss visited the house to explain that she was effectively being made redundant. Part of recent Lloyds/HBOS 14000 jobs [s]loss[/s] restructure.
They'll honour her mat leave to cover their backsides but basically no job to go back to, redundancy effective of August this year!
Trying to persuade her to look at it as an opportunity rather than a disappointment but she was quite upset.
Stick with it dazzlingboy, it's all you can do really isn't it...?
Yes not much for it but soldier on. As you say - plenty of work out there so we're trying to be positive and take it as an opportunity to try something new.
OP - perhaps she could look for a job in a marketing/PR/fundraising dept for a school - they all seem to have people employed to do that stuff and has the obvious perk of school hours.
In fact my wife got such a job after being made redundant when pregnant (she got the job when the girls were 10 months - not ideal but perfect job so she couldn't refuse it).
I would have thought your partner's experience would mean she is very well qualified for a similar job.