What is the Longest time you have been unemployed for?

andygb

MrsC3 wrote: »

Never, two weeks off when I left school and started a job. 44 Now and have had 4 jobs, the current one i've been at 13 years.

Reading the other posts - maybe i've been very lucky!

From the age of 16 to 48 I always had a job, gradually working my way up the ladder.
Then I became ill, and during the period where I was being diagnosed and treated in hospital, my employer (of nearly two years) decided to get rid of me.
For the last eight years I have been relying on scraps of work - temp/contracts etc. My last one was a couple of months ago, and I am not counted as unemployed. The problem is, that with all the temp work and gaps between jobs, employers look down on you.

pandaspot

10 weeks but out of choice. Took redundancy from last job, where I was a hb and Ctb assessor for 15 years and now working part time at a housing association which I love! It's made me realise how much I really really hated my last job and I should have left after a year cause I have hated the last 14 years there lol!!! I am grateful for my knowledge of benefits and welfare reform but that's it

Billy-no-Money

I've never been out of work, but I've lived in fear of losing my job for years because I've been working for greedy employers who shave a little bit off the workforce every three months - I certainly don't feel smug, and having seen what my grown-up kids have had to deal with getting established in the jobs market I think the lack of 'proper' jobs for the young is shameful.

GwylimT

I was made redundant nine years ago and I was out of work for 14 months, I was lucky as I have a trade (mechanic) until I could find formal work I was a bit of a mobile mechanic doing odd jobs in the area I lived, I also did a dog walking service and I was our local Avon 'lady'.

I could have found a permanent job much quicker but I'm not the sort of person who would just settle, so I would rather do my own thing until I found a job I would enjoy.