Been made redundant twice, first time finished on the Friday started a new job on the Sunday spent the money on the family and clearing debts.
The second time was a bit of a shock, my previous employer was renting the building and facilities to my employer at the time, a move would save circa £100k a year which was massive for the company so they relocated to the West Midlands, and made most of us redundant.
Took me a couple of years to find a full time job due to no real career but having jobs since school instead and no degree or training to fall back on. Had a few temporary contracts and a zero hours job during that time which brought some money in but not loads.
Then a couple of months ago had our hours cut at work, which has got me all on edge, so I'm looking at the moment, but a ppi claim has just turned up trumps so looking to start a small business up, in a field I do the odd part time work in, it's fairly seasonal so I will still need a normal job but should make life easier.
I've just been through redundancy, I was in the 'two small kids and a massive f-off mortgage' situation so a quick switch of jobs from one office to another was by best option, thankfully managed to score a job straight away and can continue doing the school run and get to work without impacting work life balance. Main thing is to not wait and get cracking with cv LinkedIn and ask everyone about jobs, including on here ! Don't be shy , talk to any and every personal contact . Good luck. Happy to share any assistance OP
I've three small kids, a wife with no degree/skills/job, no redundancy pay and a £352,000 mortgage @ £1,400/month.
If I begin to talk about encrypted bitcoin accounts, kidnapping rich peoples' dogs, etc. Please ignore as it's the gin talking.
As said above, these situations have a way of sorting themselves out.
But any more talk of "yah I totally cleared the mortgage" then keep Fido inside!
urgh , can i ask what you did in O&G ?
encrypted bitcoin accounts, kidnapping rich peoples' dogs
Jeez, sorry about that. Must be time to sober up.
what you did in O&G ?
I do all the boring shite that no-one else wants to do, namely:
[i]Supply chain, logistics, inventory management, warehouse, procurement, international freight forwarding, expediting, customs clearance, contract drafting, contract execution & management.[/i]
My fluency in Russian and in-depth knowledge of the Kazakh commodity exchange should come in handy behind the counter in Millets
aye well given some of the rates I'm seeing for going out to that neck of the woods for my side of industry (CPS operations) - even if there was work in that area its unlikely you'd want it.
i jumped to Africa for that reason but even thats drying up now "staff training time" atm.
mate from school days is on rotation in one of the 'stans (as far as I know) - has been for years. Russian is very good - not sure what other talents he has!!
QA testing & dev. for performance improvement and loss monitoring..
