Just been told im losing my Job.. with adam Jnr only being born in Jan and the missus now on half pay maternity leave the world has just given me a right kick in the knackers, i know a few people on here laughed at me going on about my job truth is i bloody loved it and was proud to tell everyone what i did. Im a bloddy mess and have not slept since told last night. I know others are in the same boat so not sure where to go from here apart from the job centre, worst thing to is i havnt been here long enough to recieve a pay out will be looking at one months pay at best, with the missus and baby and mortage to pay that wont even cover that, so i guess this is kind of a goodbye for the time being will be online as much as i can when at home looking for new work, so if anyone knows of any thing going give us a shout as im completly lost as i havnt been out of work since i came back from OZ in 2002.
Keep Smiling Up the Addicks...
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good luck chin up
for those who never got to hear me banging on about my job : http://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/presenters/staff/19/
probably will be deleted soon..
You've got to stay positive, get to some agencies pronto, and do the whole job cente thing. Use your time to do all those jobs / projects you never had time for. It's so easy to become apathetic.
I've been on Jobserve recently and CWJobs - they are pretty useful I think but it all depends on your line of work I suspect
Media sadly.. itv and bbc not having any money has hit us we went from a 400k per year in commision to 100k at best, were mainly a book agents so wollwoths going under and digital book sales have hit us hard big time...
All i can say is good luck mate, and hope you have better luck than me, as without the support of my family, i would be living in a box right now.
know what you mean about broadcast. if we don't renew our sky and channel five contracts in the next few months (even at reduced rates) we're finished.
best of luck, mate.
A few of us on here run businesses and know others who run companies, so it may be worthwhile to advertise what you do, and if anyone has a vacancy they can put that up as well
Sorry to read this news.
Hope things turn out okay for you geez.
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I really hope that you find something and quickly.
If you want to stay in that line of work - I'd email all agencies similar to yours immediately. Even though they're all probably going through similar restructuring, there's no harm in asking. If you love your line of work - I'd target places direct instead of agencies. companies will like to employ people saving the agency fees so why not - what have you got to lose!
My son finished Uni last May and only finally got a job earlier this year in the area he wanted ... it's not exactly what he wants but at the moment having a job at his age and gaining experiene for a CV is like gold dust.
A number of his friends from Uni have still not got anything apart from shop jobs.
Seriously, the only time I've been made redundant (so far) was weeks after we'd had our first child. You're wondering how you're going to manage, but you will. I know how you're feeling, keep your chin up and good luck finding something sooner rather than later.
There are better times ahead...