Thread: Do you feel safe?
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Old 12-03-2009, 06:46   #16
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Re: Do you feel safe?
I'm a contractor, I currently feel safe for the next 3 months but my company (not BT, not quite that bad yet) is just desperatly trying to cut costs and that includes throwing out as many contractors as possible. Some of us work in positions that should not be left empty and at the moment they are just throwing them out... on the other hand there is still work out there so I'm not to concerned when I need to go looking (frankly, I'm looking forward to the change)

I was made redundent 5 years ago and it was probably the best thing that ever happened to me job wise. Looked at the situation I was in and took the oppotunity to move on to better things (contracting).

There are jobs out there and the job centre themselves have said although there is a rising number of unemployed, there are also a lot of people finding new jobs so they're not the same people each month.

Worth having a good hard think about what you want to do and see what you can do to make it happen now. If you view redundency as an oppotunity then you might just suprise yourself.
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