I’m waiting for news…not good news. My husband has been told that 10% of people in his organisation will be made redundant. He has a meeting at 10am which will clarify things. He suspects that he will be going.
He’s worried and stressed and also a bit annoyed that it seems to be a fairly short term decision.
I’m not quite sure what the news will mean. He won’t get much redundancy; few people do these days.. There aren’t many other jobs about although there are some. He is skilled and qualified and has experience. It could easily take 6 months to find another job. Although its not as bad as Primark in Bristol which had 14,000 applicants for 400 jobs. There are other things he can do to make money (sell his body??) mainly contracting type work which means nights and weekends providing the work actually turns up.
In some ways I quite like the thought of him not working –I’ll get relieved of the school run, he can look after the house and make dahl. Life could be simplier.
I like to think he might try a different occupation; maybe he could knit yoghurt or something. Although with the school run and the chronic lack of money I’m not sure he’ll be able to come up with something more fulfilling as an occupation.
Money wise I’m not sure how we’ll cope. Assuming he doesn’t make any money at all post redundancy we should be able to manage on a day-to-day basis as long as we are less profligate but its going to be a huge change. We won’t loose the house or have to take my son out of school but I think everything else will be up for grabs. Also managing on paper is one thing- actually having to do it might be another matter.
My husband works in the railway industry which is heavily reliant on government funding. The government have given all the money to the banks. Australia however has a long term plan to expand its rail network and a shortage of skilled designers. We might just be leaving the country. Exciting times.
