Yes, back to depressing issues. It’s now been more than a month, and again, nothing’s certain. It has been confirmed that I have not been matched to a job – there was this excercise of mashing my team together with another team, cutting down from 8 ftes to 4. Obviously, with me having the least experience and all, I have been ‘disposed’ of. If you remembered my previous update post, yes, my assistant’s job did get assigned to my assistant. All’s well ends well. For him at least.

Any regrets? No. I have no regrets whatsoever rejecting his job. The only problem is that all financial services companies in the UK are now slashing down their numbers and making redundancies due to the dire state of the UK economy. So for every job out there in Financial Services, there are now at least a few candidates going for it. Worst of all is that due to the slash and burn, most financial services companies in the UK have stopped recruitment as well – those that have not made redundancies are adopting a wait-and-see methodology. With good reason.

Anyway. I am still seeking new roles internal and external. Am due for a mini-interview re a possible internal secondment, but am really unsure if I am ready for another 6 months worth of uncertainties to just be made redundant at the end of it. On one hand I will have 6 months to ride the storm out – on the other hand, I am fairly certain that I am able to find another role in a couple of months time – thus getting a new job plus my redundancy payment and bonus. Decisions decisions. I really don’t know whether I should take that secondment if I was offered it…and if I reject it does that mean that I do not get my redundancy payment and am literally being made redundant? All these questions – hopefully it will all be answered by the end of the week. At the moment there is nothing more that I can do other than continue jobsearching during office hours (it now consist of about 50% of my working day activicty). I am visiting all jobsites, career sites, vacancies site and anything else I can get my hands on via the internet. Does not help that my laptop at home has stopped working and I really need a new one!! AAAArghhh…I was initially thinking that I will wait until I am more certain jobwise before purchasing a new laptop…however, if I was really made redundant, I would need a laptop anyway to jobhunt! Either way that is another £400 outgoing that I need to shelf out in the next month.

Things are getting so dire that I am going back to selling earrings ect at arts markets….first one hopefully this weekend!

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