Made Redundant today

Lucy1982_2

tigzem wrote: »

Hey Lucy, welcome back! Sorry it's not under happier circumstances... BB has given some fab advice. Hope you can find a great job with better benefits etc. Here's another hug for you :grouphug:...although it's the dodgy one!!! lol

ps - I noticed a while back you're not on my FB anymore, I was going to send u a message as noticed you'd not been around on here for a while x

I should be!! But I have noticed couple of people disappear off mine to. PM me and I'll find you again.

Runnybabbit

Hi Lucy,

I am sorry to hear your news. I found myself in the same position last year and decided to do something completely different. I'd spent the best part of 20 odd years pushing a pen (completely unsatisfying) - however I now work in a Cardiac unit at our local hospital where I'm doing my training.

Sure at first things were bleak and the money is awful, but when I see the happy faces of people leaving the unit, it makes my job so worthwhile and so rewarding.

Obviously I'm not aware of what your job entailed, but I'd like to wish you buckets of luck and hapiness and hope things turn out well for you.
Babbit x

savingholmes

Hi Lucy - Try to see it as a fresh start. Find someone you know who is good at doing CVs and get their help... There are still a lot of jobs out there so don't believe all the negative news on the TV. If you are positive and hard working - then that is what companies are looking for and you have as good a chance as anyone else or better...

Chin up. I left my job end of last year, and got 2 job offers out of 3 and got to choose between them. It does happen...

hypno06

This is the start of something new for you. It will be bigger, better and brighter than before x

Shineyhappy

Hi Lucy,

I did email you but not sure which you will check first.

I know how awful it feels, when I found out a week ago I was ok with it and then the panic and the grief hit and it isnt nice. I felt like someone had died and I was lost and grieving, totally mad I know. I went to see my GP and he gave me sometihng to help me sleep as I had been so uptight I couldnt sleep and he offered to write me a note so I dont have to go back. So if you need help dont be afraid to get it.

How naughty is naughty? Tut tut!! Seriously try not to worry too much I know thats easier to say than do but the shock will fade when you start nosing around for more jobs.

Get a couple of copies of a written reference from your boss and you can show them off at interviews.

You know where I am if you need me and you are as ever welcome to come and visit!

Big hugs

xxx

Lucy1982_2

Morning. (well afternoon)

I amazingly managed to get a good nights sleep.

I have just printed off my cv and will be posting it out in a minute (I thought I might as well start now) I am also about to email someone to get an application form for another position.

I saw a friend from work last night (well I say work....) and apparently everyone was stunned, and she thought my old boss was going to cry on her, which doesn't help me, but as least I know I will be missed.

I am trying to stay positive and in a way I am aiming at monday, not sure if I am looking forward to it exactly, but at least I will be able to do something.

But I have decided that I am going to find a job to bring in some money, hopefully sooner rather than later as I will then still have some redundancy money left and then I am going to have a real think about what I want to do and once I decide I am going to put a plan in action to get to it.

I think I am also going to start another diary here as I feel like I am going to need to write down all my little events and hopefully before long we will be celebrating a new job!

sarah1980

I am so sorry to hear about this. I too have been made redundant twice. The first time it happened i burst into tears in front of my boss (so you're already doing better than me!) and the second time my DH and I had literally that week just moved into a new house.

Second time around I managed to pick myself up pretty quick and set up on my own - thankfully many of the clients from my old company stuck with me when I set up alone.

First time though I did all the things you are doing (agencies, temping, jobcentre etc.). Whilst you're out of work don't forget JSA - that's what it's there for.

Also, have a think about companies you might like to work for, and write to them on spec, enclosing a copy of your CV. I have got 3 jobs this way!

Best of luck, at least you know you will be missed (my bosses on both occasions were nowhere near tears when they let me go!) and you will get a great reference from your old employer.

tessie_bear

well done ..........positive positive positive is the best way to look at it......i got made redundo from a job i hated and it has been the best kick up the backside ive ever had.....things have slotted in to place and i hope they will for u....good luck and please dont be grinchy with xmas.....it may cheer u up

sarah1980

P.S. Christmas doesn't have to be expensive to be fun!! xx

normdeplume

I don't know you Lucy, but I did want to send my support. Hang on in there: one door may close but another will open. Stay positive.