[Closed] How ****ed is the industry you work in?

on the up in the games industry just have my first vacancy email in 18 months. It had one position in it.

I am just moving into engines. Constantly changing emissions regulations are keeping the industry busy.

Tax/incentives/worn out vehicles keeps them going out the door.

There's even bookies going out of business at the moment but the business of supplying them with software solutions for various types of numbers betting is doing well as they try and chase the punters for cash

Public sector. Dead! I'm getting out. I don't think people around me can see the writing on the wall. Must be because their heads are burried too deep in the sand.

I'm moving into electrical distribution networks. We're always going to need electricity right?

Cancer. Unfortunately always a client base 🙁

Mrs Higgo is in 'nuclear environmental'.
Sadly she'll be in a job for the next 10,000 years or so.

I'm out of a job as soon as we find a cure for heart disease and cancer.

As ****ed-up as the print and graphics industry is at the minute I do think a lot of companies only have themselves to blame - there's massive overcapacity and work is being done at silly rates just to fill presses, often with artwork chucked in free. IMO we need a good clear-out!

Offshore construction- As we mostly work for Oil & gas, keep on driving those audis to keep me in a job 🙂

Industrial digital inkjet seems to be doing OK.

Company I work for is pretty busy & the company I used to work for can't build printheads fast enough.....

Utilities = captive customer base pretty much.

Banking - going back to slide rule and abacus. That isnt such a bad thing, we've had 20yrs of too many bright kids slogging it out in the City moving money from one place to the next. Next generation is going to have to stay in the real economy, maybe even help make stuff, thats going to be good for everybody.

[simpsons]This is a Golden Age for repo men. One that shall never end.[/simpsons]

Most of my work is related to offshore power: oil/gas/renewables.
There's LOADS of work 🙂

Anyone want a job? We need people...

Stumpy, Industrial Inkjet? I presume you're Cambridgeshire then? I used to be at VideoJet/Marconi Data many years ago...

Teaching is ****ed. There are now far too many teachers, and schools have restricted budgets so many new entrants are not getting proper contracts. Also, supply teaching virtually no longer exists, since most supply is now tackled by in house cover supervisors (usually non-degreed) or even supply cover supervisors (i.e. a person off the street with a clear eCRB who registers with an agency). DT is being cut, art depart,ments are being cut.. anything that uses resources is being cut...

So thanks Goldman Sachs et al. Thanks a lot for your high speed trading gambling con and other associated trickery.

Tanning salons seem to be doing ok at the mo.

Unemployment - it's booming. 🙁

In the world of commercial finance things are very difficult. Massive amounts of work being undertaken by small understaffed teams, no one is making money so no change in sight. It will take years to sort out the mess.

Steel - might not be doing to well in a lot of the western countries, here in India there's massive growth - will certainly keep us busy for a while!

Cheers, Rich

Recruitment - surprisingly OK at the moment, certainly better than the last two years.

Games industry - generally a bit volatile anywhere, but it's been particularly battered in the UK. A lot of people are, quite literally, blaming Canada. The Canadian government gives Vancouver (and to a lesser extent Montreal) studios a massive tax breaks, which means that they can offer more to publishers for less. A lot of the publishers have moved their headquarters there, and even closed a few of their US studios and reopened them in Vancouver.

There's also the issue of big US publishers buying up UK studios, then shutting them down a couple of years later, even if they've produced successful games. Yes Activision and Disney, I'm looking at you.

Defence R&D, very busy and have been for ages.

Architecture seems to be picking up (in London at least) much more staff movement at the moment which is normally a good sign.

Defence R&D, very busy and have been for ages.

That's because one of the main exports of the UK and its child, the US, is war.

Most of my work is related to offshore power: oil/gas/renewables.
There's LOADS of work

Anyone want a job? We need people...

What sort of qualifications are people after in your area? Tehcnical or more project managment based? I was thinking about a sector change, have been working as a project/ program manager with a large engineering firm for around 6 years now.

Utilities here too. What are people going to do, stop going for a poo?

MWAAAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!

I work with the unemployed, do I need to say more ?

I'm a psychiatric nurse, and sadly, am seeing increasing pressure on beds, the community mental health teams and more and more referrals day in day out. Oddly enough, I got a text message last night from the dealers that I bought my Harley from, saying the Doncaster, Leeds and Manchester branches are all in recievership and closing down. Arse!

Space system software. Cutbacks in spending and more companies on the continent getting geared up with national support is eroding our business. We're fighting.

I'm very interested in the energy sector actually.

NDT's [i]sort of[/i] on the up. We've (and the rival company) got so much work in lately that you have to climb over it to get out of the door, but film costs are up 30% or so (the boss repeatedly tells anyone who'll listen), pretty much destroying the profits.

Our work-load's being increased to try and counter it, the knackered old machinery's repeatedly cobbled together because New costs too much, and safe working practise is largely ignored to save money/time. It's a house of cards I tells ye.

The directors have all got big new cars lately though, so it's probably not all bad.

Lots of people in my business say "the job is ****ed"

I've no doubt people 30 years ago were saying it and 30 years in the future people will still be saying it

Print industry is on its arse and I can only see it getting worse as margins get tighter and capacity outstrips an already reducing demand.

Thankfully just got out.

Rail Industry - FUBAR'ed, I feel like I'm re-arrangging deckchairs on the Titanic but will shortly be displaced from this job to reapply for the same but slightly different position even though we steam closer to the ice!

Moral in our bit is so bad if it was an airliner it would have a four engine shutdown and have just popped out of the clouds to find its in the middle of a mountain range!

bikes.things are pretty tough and have been for over a year...crc and theyre pals dont help,cyclescheme eats 17% of your margin,theyres complete oversupply of brands each wanting a slice of a diminishing market...i cant see where the growth is coming from.in 8 years of having a shop this has been our worst for mtb sales...

maybe working for someone would be less stressful!

MOD 'nuff said 😀

I worked in the steel industry, now closed down and they sold the entire plant to china and rebuilt there.

Worked on a market, and soon to move and be seriously downsized.

Worked in a large psychie hospital, they let all the patients out, to roam the streets, with part time care, and loads of drugs to keep them calm.

Now in my current job, nobody seems to have any money to employ my services, and more job loses amongst my customers every day.

Pharmaceuticals.

Increased unemployment/stress/social deprivatiopn = increased custom. 🙂

Lots of people in my business say "the job is ****ed"

I've no doubt people 30 years ago were saying it and 30 years in the future people will still be saying it

How naive!

Drunks will always need a taxi so I should be fine.

Hi-fi industry as a whole has been a tough place for the last few years. Plenty of companies have shrunk or been treading water. Our company has made some great decisions (and therefore products) though and we've been expanding pretty rapidly through those years 🙂 We've just done a new deal which should see that growth continue so I'm pretty happy.

Town planning. In the two years I have been back in the NW there HASN'T BEEN ONE SINGLE JOB TO APPLY FOR!!!!!!!! (Liverpool, Manchester, Chester etc)

To make matters worse, I decided to apply for a job in Kingston which I was just offered but cannot take as the family don't want to be moved again.

Note to all prospective planners, don't ****ing bother, find something, anything, else to do.

How naive!

explain

Oil sands remediation - yes, I think my job is somewhat ironic..

The one part of Environment Canada that Harper (who is like GW Bush's shadow) hasn't lain the axe to in an effort to get the Keystone XL pipeline built. Infact if it isn't oil sands related, you have to fight *very* hard to get the research cash to do anything but, very different to even 12 months ago.

On the other side of things, my friend who owns a used bicycle business in Hamilton, ON - they only do repairs and sell refurbished secondhand bikes that are *given* to them is absolutely booming, to the point he bought a new premises with cash and is to rent out the top two floors as loft apartments 😀

As for the rest of Canada...things aren't nearly as rosy as the UK broadsheets make out, people have jobs yes, but my god is it all a house of cards waiting to tumble down, [i]everything[/i] is built on credit. It's like the UK in 2004.

Contaminated land in the UK is basically dead. I'm working in a bike shop now!

Oil & gas here. Whole sector seems to be booming, e.g. Aker are recruiting 100's in Aberdeen and opening a new design office in London. We are currently recruiting to increase staff numbers by 25%. We can't make stuff quick enough.

Rich, sell me a new hifi system then..?

Utilities, 23 years and multiple owners, all who have come in and stripped us down to the point where we are right royally stuffed, now owned by a very large Chinese firm who seem to think we have done bugger all for the last 10 years..........

Redundancy beckons i fear at some point.........

FMCG big company. Hit by increase in raw material costs. Pay increases are at least still happening, albeit low. No redundancies but quite a few "early retirements". No new hiring really, some temps. Western Europe sales flat, all focus on new and developing markets. So nowt bad really but you're expected to do a whole lot more. Could be a LOT worse comparing to what other people are writing here.

In my previous life as a TEFL teacher in Spain, one of the first things to go was the training budget, so fewer classes and earning opportunities. The academies thought it was a good idea to either not give pay rises or reduce the pay making it difficult to move from company to company. And that looked like a future trend. 😕
I was earing more per hour and working more hours in 2005/2006 than 2011.
For that reason I'm out.

Fragrance industry. The entire industry is booming because emerging economies like China and India and parts of Latin America are demanding more fabric conditioner, soap, detergent, creams, shampoos and shower gels as well as household cleaners and airfresheners. Most of the demand is in China so there is a desperate shortage of synthetic raw materials and prices have increased by 65% on average. Natural events like ice storms have also affected natural raw materials; orange oil has gone up by 550% since ice storms in Florida wrecked the crop.

Our sales are growing by 10-12% a year and my own territory, Nigeria, is absolutely booming, we are breaking records ever month, this month we surpassed the whole 2010 turnover there. We are self-financing a new £3.5m factory with two robotic compounding machines, which will take our production capacity from the present £25m to £100m, all paid for out of cash in the bank.

Is that good enough?

Rich, sell me a new hifi system then..?

Heh, I've got keys to the factory. What do you want? 😉 Seriously though, happy to give you some honest advice on our equipment and can possibly garner some info on other things via the sales guys, feel free to email me.

Food industry is busy, but profits are hard as supermarkets want more profit and food commodity costs are very high. Net result is that the producer and the consumer lose out. The retailers do very nicely thank you. Anyone seen Tesco profits this year!

Still for folk working in factories, its business as usual as many of nations food producers are busy as people are eating at home more.

Apart from thieving robbing b*****s who think that illegally downloading music isn't stealing at all, it' all going swimmingly thanks. In fact, I'd say it is better now than it was a couple of years ago, and I'm having to turn work down, or start working more than three days a week, which ain't gonna happen.

NHS.

Hard to say which way this will go....on the one hand the population's health is getting worse, we have the highest rates of diabetes, heart disease, obesity and hypertension in europe so my job should be safe....on the other hand the NHS is simply unsustainable in its current guise unless people get used to the idea of paying a lot more tax.

LeeW - Member
Defence R&D, very busy and have been for ages.

Every bombing sortie over Libya is about my ward's entire operating budget for the year, so I am sure we will be doing far more with far less soon enough. 🙁 Don't get me started on my stealth pay cuts and freeze on training....

I have a grounds maintenance company, there's always green stuff to mow or cut 😉

Photographic industry ... dire. From a staff of 18 in 2008 now down to 7, and struggling to keep head above water. I know a large franchise is currently under the umbrella of administration which doesn't bode well for a lot of people.

Seems to be the result of part time participants undervaluing what it actually costs to sustain a business in the industry, and that cost is what the clients are using for comparison. They go to them, then come to us to complain and try to salvage something out of the mess !

We were also hit very hard in the decline in retail lending, ok I know it had a lot to answer for in the first place but if people can no longer spend, its the end supplier that suffers.

By comparison the same business model being applied in Australia seems to be booming (with resultant job offers as well).

Music single sales are up since last year, not so sure its anything other than a change in trends!

people are still getting married with alarming gusto and regularity.. 🙂

Aircraft manufacture, it's going well, loads of orders this year, unlimited overtime with no prospect of it ending because the build rates are going up, glad if it to

Oil and Gas Industry, manufacturer of Flowline / Valves / STT's / SSV's / Manifolds (Mud and Gate)

Desk jockey for large s**t loads of work, as mentioned before cant make it quick enough

Sales / Technical Support specifying and costing, quoting RFQ's for the Middle East / Asia and South America

Anyone know of any interesting jobs going within the industry ?

I work for the Probation Service.

Thanks to the recent spate of urban late night shopping, the future is looking pretty good.

Recycling waste electricals. Can't expand the company quickly enough to keep up with demand. From a zero start 4 years ago to 50,000 tonnes of waste a year and 180 employees. Plus we export most of what we recover to China!

Happy days.

Occupational Health and safety consultancy is fine, especially as I tend to deal with all the very dangerous and weird stuff that most industries don't know what to do with. 😕

Oil + gas booming for now. More engineering vacancies than applicants from what I can see.

the nhs??? ****ed! I blame the fatties!

satellite aerial and cctv.
once the digital switch over is done i will need a job.

anyone in west yorkshire hiring?

I'm in aviation. It was one of the first to go into recession but equally has been one of the first out. Looking fairly rosy for the short term, anyway.

I'm also in aviation, but not the same outfit that Flaperon works for.

It never looks too great to me and even when the times are good you know it won't last for very long at all.

The outlook can change very quickly as the industry is very exposed to so many external influences. Not saying other industries or not, but they seem to hit quicker and deeper for the airlines.

Paper making...toilet and tissue, very very busy with demand out-strippin supply, still chasing costs but seems very stable. Share price even bucked trend over the last few weeks in the States and remained static.

Villainy.

Remains steady.

Aerospace Manufacturing. Generally pretty good. Although the (defence) project I work on is no longer looking so rosy as it once was, and the dept is re-deploying people.

& the company I used to work for can't build printheads fast enough.....

Kato the job IS ****ed. 😉

site/ project management for drywall, ceiling and fit out firm in London - the company i work for had a bit of a lull 4 months ago but most of the project teams have been overloaded for the past 2 years and next year looks just as busy.

To Cardiff & Swepler (and anyone else interested)
I work for an Engineering analysis company in Hexham (shouldn't take you too long to find me). Mainly do FEA and CFD work with a bit of design stuff too. If you're interested, email is in profile...

If you don't fancy the analysis stuff, I know IHC EB in Riding Mill, SMD in Wallsend, Duco in Walker, CTC in Darlington are all crying out for people...

I don't think its that bad binders in the creative industry, yes we have had to adapt to times so we are doing more Facebook tabs, apps and the like and a little less traditional print but its just as busy. I guess if you are pure print then things could be harder but that is as much to do with advancements in technology as hard times economically.

ir_bandito

Cheers, will drop you a line over the weekend, my neck of the woods too, i work for a company in Team Valley which have the first three initials of a month, shouldn't take much figuring out who I work for

Cheers

Swelper

The company I work for (big Yank corporation)supply analytical equipment to the pharma, chemical, NHS and universities etc, it went quiet a couple of years back but all the sectors we sell into seem to be stable enough and our business is growing. Not had a pay rise in three years mind, so not that great really I suppose.

My work is rehabilitating offenders outside of prison. There seems to be no shortage of clients and no lack of enthusiasm (from Dave and his mates) for the idea of keeping offenders out of prison.

Win win for me, and I like my job. Goes with out saying the pay is crap.

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