How are you ultimately coping with going through a redundancy?

Andrew_Ryan_89 · 27 June 2017 at 9:39PM

Yesterday, starting her 6th week in the job, a colleague of mine was fired. We were in the same team and she only started a few days before me. For a number of reasons, this has got me worried that I will be next very soon. Her dismissal, in my opinion, was highly unjustified. My boss mentioned there was a lack of performance but it came a day after a board meeting where we know he is being criticised on a weekly basis for not hitting targets and making investments (staff, marketing and others) that don't work.

This is my 4th job in 6 years. My first job after university I had for 3 years and enjoyed quite a lot. It was stressful the vast majority of the time and my boss was an idiot, but I enjoyed interacting with clients, solving challenges and so on and only left for an increase in salary. Started the new role, very similar to what I mentioned above, and enjoyed it up until the point I was made redundant.

Scrabbling around for a new role (have a mortgage to pay), I accepted one of the first job offers. Did not like the company, moved on a year later to where I am now. Only problem is, this role is looking like it will also be short-lived the way things are going. I feel that I am in a spiral triggered by this redundancy and for each new job I have lasting less than 2 years, the harder it will be for me to get a new one.

I just wanted to hear about others peoples experiences getting through a redundancy, especially where you were made redundant from a job you enjoyed. Are you still looking? Did you have numerous job until you found the right one? Have you even found the right one yet?