Job offer withdrawn due to coronavirus

purpledove98 · 25 March 2020 at 1:59PM

Hi, I’m a full-time student who was supposed to be on a placement this summer. I’ve just had an email to say that my placement has been cancelled even though I had already accepted the offer. I had been relying on the £3500 I would have earned from this to support myself over the Summer and through my next year of uni. Both parents are high risk so I have to stay in university accommodation. They also do not have the funds to support me as one is now unemployed. My landlord does not have a buy to let mortgage and relies on me and the other tenants as her income. I have asked my university for help but they are unable to help right now as I still have a couple of student loan payments due to me so I’ll only be in financial difficulty from June onwards. I sometimes work through UberEats but I haven’t been able to earn anything from this recently.

Does anyone have any idea as to what I can do now? I don’t think the government have plans to help students over the Summer now all our placements and jobs are being cancelled.

[Deleted User] · 25 March 2020 at 2:05PM

Not what you want to do but there are lots of jobs in supermarkets right now. Stacking shelves, driving delivery vans etc

purpledove98 · 25 March 2020 at 2:22PM

I would love to do that except my university it requiring us to do exams so I won’t be able to work until June and they seem to just be offering temporary immediate start roles round by me so I’d have to leave university to take one on.