[shillelagh]

Ive been made redundant once 3 weeks before my 21st birthday ... i started a new job on my 21st birthday. I admit it i was lucky ... It was 1988 and there wasnt a recession.
Was brought home by my boss and and he said he was sorry to let me go. He was ill and he died a couple of months later. It made me realise that a job is not for life ... like it used to be and anyone could be got rid of. Redundancy can make people look at life different .. find a job they want to do and retrain, go to college or university or get another job. Thing is because its the recession and jobs are going everywhere that getting another job is hard .. firms who are wanting employees are going to pick the best, the ones who need least training, or even the cheapest. Especially if they can get government money to pay some if not all their wages.