I notice a lot of peeps in the same boat as me, I am leaving today, redundant, because of Brown & Clowns inability to run a sweet shop.
Just wondering what the mix is on here and what your all doing about it?
Ta,
Steve
You forgot an option in the poll:-
Working and poorer than you!
Cheers
Mike (self employed builder!)
Good luck with the job hunt and hopefully something will turn up soon, for you and all the lads on here in the same boat.
working and poor here too.
We’ve never been more busy in the windfarm business tbh we can’t keep up with the workload. If I were you I’d look at the renewable energy side of things, money is just pouring into it, some of it on a truly mind boggling scale, puts ship & car building to shame and most of it actually uses people, not robots.
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
We’ve never been more busy in the windfarm business tbh we can’t keep up with the workload. If I were you I’d look at the renewable energy side of things, money is just pouring into it, some of it on a truly mind boggling scale, puts ship & car building to shame and most of it actually uses people, not robots.
no self employed option?
you should have put
unemployed and not driving due to lack of funds to put fuel in the car! 
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Originally posted by Guinness
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
We’ve never been more busy in the windfarm business tbh we can’t keep up with the workload. If I were you I’d look at the renewable energy side of things, money is just pouring into it, some of it on a truly mind boggling scale, puts ship & car building to shame and most of it actually uses people, not robots.
Need any foundations digging? LOL!
Mike
im working but sitting on a big student overdraft and loan makes me almost definitely poorer than you.
But with more disposable income
now no work its pants car trade is dead 
so far its 80% working, not too bad really
I thought I'd put working down, but as for the ritcher than thou statement.... I've just bought a house so am technically poor for the next
30 years.
Just trying to buy all the bits I need for my build before the mortgage takes over soon!
Working, new job straight out of uni. Loan, overdraft and lack of a summer holiday isnt good, but Im thankful to actually have a job!
Another heading might have been........ "Retired on a fixed, (though liveable), income, still driving and still putting in go juice"
Ray
I'm Working.
My goal is to stay employed until at least Sept 9th 2009.
Then I will have completed 40 years in the same company and get my Crystal Clock. (Oh GOD.... am I SAD or what!)
However, the intention is to remain employed for at least three more years as I now have two sons at uni.
The Viento is not getting driven enough, and with a pending abdominal operation scheduled for September, it looks like I wont be driving anything much
for a while.
(I have split me guts - ie a Hernia)
OK so its... In Work, but not a lot of spare cash to have fun with.
Just trying to ride out the storm of life!
What about retired.....
What about retired.....
Getting finished on the 30th October, after 20 years.
Andy
Wish they'd let me go, but 30 years service, civil service T's and C's, relatively high salary, I'm just too expensive to make
redundo.
Maybe next year.
I'm working. Been there since leaving school (almost) 20 years ago and had it not been for the dire economic climate/industry in general,
I'd have left at the end of last year when I realised the gaffer was on my back all the time.
I'm bemused how the unemployed (and never have held a job done) folks who I went to school with, seem to have new cars and 60" plasma
screens where's I'm scraping my pennies together to buy shoes for my kids to share.....
Actually, for the first time in my life I'm not skint. I will be when I finally sell my house and buy another house with a huge mortgage!!
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Originally posted by Flamez
What about retired.....
I'm sitting in Amsterdam airport on my way home after three weeks away. Home for two days then away for another month.
We (580 of us) were told today that the project is being cut short and we are all being made redundant in October. It's my birthday tomorrow and
I pick up my Viento chassis on Saturday. I am so tempted to tell them to stick their job and stay home building my car.
Any jobs going Mr Whippy
unempoyed, running out of cash but can just about hold on for a bit longer
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
We’ve never been more busy in the windfarm business tbh we can’t keep up with the workload. If I were you I’d look at the renewable energy side of things, money is just pouring into it, some of it on a truly mind boggling scale, puts ship & car building to shame and most of it actually uses people, not robots.
Working, but not time left to fix the f@#$#$% car!
Put down working, but definately not rich and definately time poor.
Self employed.
Wife employed but nervous about job.
16 years of motgage to go.
1 son starting uni with 2/3 years to go.
1 daughter on gollege course min 2 years with additional uni option.
Working,divorced, mortgage paid off, kids self sufficient, but with a dicky ticker.
Every day is good.
Have a big workshop two motor bikes , one kit car (stm) and thee-wheeler part built.
INT LIFE GRAND
Denis.........AKA Kipper.
Sorry that sounds like bragging, I really feel for any one facing redundance.
think the big r is comming our way at work, with now real work for 6 months now and the shop floor on reduced hours theres still only work to keep
them going until tuesday morning every week!
They keep telling us they are waiting for the banks to come back and tell us how much money they need to save each month but that sounds stupid to me.
If theres no work and your the owners its upto you to make the decisions. But every month i get my pay packet so i am not going to tell them.
another missing option - working and coping, just about.
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Originally posted by David Jenkins
another missing option - working and coping, just about.
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Originally posted by owelly
... where's I'm scraping my penis together to buy shoes for my kids to share.....
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Originally posted by DarrenW
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Originally posted by owelly
... where's I'm scraping my penis together to buy shoes for my kids to share.....
Sounds painful
What recession? I'm as skint as I was this time last year before all this scaremongering started (yeah I'm blaming it on all those t**ts
that kept telling us a recession is coming)
Funny enough though I go on holiday for a week next week and then I walk into a new job. Security doesn't pay amazingly but at least you
can't be made redundant
If I was an unemployed engineer right now I'd be looking quite seriously at moving into the rail industry as it has quite a lot of investment secured over the next few years.
Well that's rail and windfarms.. Wonder where all the adverts are like those "train to be a plumber, cos we need 30 million plumbers by 2011!" are going to?