What would you do if you lost your job?

greenmachine88

What would be your plan of action?

jonnyfingers

Get a new job.

hondasam

stay in bed until lunch time everyday.

sean1141

greenmachine88 wrote: »

What would be your plan of action?

Look for a new one.

Johnny Foreigner

greenmachine88 wrote: »

What would be your plan of action?

Go on the dole.
Or emigrate.

Stained Class

Find something better to do with my life.

JustAddWater

Post on boards 24/6

The other day I'd probably look for a new job

UDAWINNER

Sign on for the good life that is the dole.

Kadent

spend a year working with some voluntary aid organisation overseas

get another one

Killer Pigeon

I'd die out of the shame of being on the dole.

Kadent

Kaden wrote: »

spend a year working with some voluntary aid organisation overseas

I've spent the last two weeks considering giving up my job so I can do this. So if you lost your job you can have mine.

Callipo

relaxed and got the tax I paid for the last 10 years back.


I got a good pay off btw.

imitation

Become a pirate on the high seas, living a life of adventure and leaving a string of illegitimate children at ports across the world.

Stained Class

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

I'd die out of the shame of being on the dole.

I wouldn't! I've paid into the system for around 25 years now. Time to get something back.

Kaden wrote: »

spend a year working with some voluntary aid organisation overseas

Good idea in theory. If it's in Africa though, you abolutely know that all your good work will be eventually undone by the natives.

imitation wrote: »

Become a pirate on the high seas, living a life of adventure and leaving a string of illegitimate children at ports across the world.

This sounds like fun though!:D

DarkJager

My last time on the dole was luckily enough before the World Cup 2010. Great weather, got to watch every match and had a new job started the day after the final

The main thing you have to do is check the job sites every day without fail. Have the CV ready (multiple versions if you have experience in various roles) and send them off for anything you think might suit you.Dont get in to a routine. Do something different every day or you will develop a routine that will make it hard to break away from.

Dealing with the social welfare will make you want to kill someone. It took almost 3 months to get my first payment from them, they don't seem to understand that companies chasing you for money are not interested in the delays provided by these incompetent arseholes.

YouTookMyName

If?

The Scientician

I lost mine the Thursday before Christmas. After this week working I've got a couple of weeks lined up elsewhere. After that I'm going to either find a job, go on the dole, or emigrate as the last resort. I really don't want to move abroad. I've lived here all my life and I've worked at least part time since I was 14. I'd like to start my own business at some stage but I really don't know if I have the wherewithal. The way things are going if I ever do start one it'll be in some other country.

Galwayguy35

I would start looking for a new job straight away. I would work at anything that paid the minimium wage.

Johnny Foreigner

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

I'd die out of the shame of being on the dole.

Shame?
I paid tax into the EU social fund for 15 years when I worked.
I feel no shame in claiming dole now I am unemployed.
Why would I? That is what it is there for.
I feel no shame that the Fianna Fail Government under Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen has ruined the Irish economy and made the unemployment rate 15%.
I have been applying for jobs for the last 2 years.
I feel no shame in being on the dole.
The only other option would be for me to emigrate.

woodoo

I'd become the town dosser. Goings for walks during the day and relaxing on benches outside the shops watching the world go by. Then i'd wander home for the dinner. I'd hang about the bookies during the week too.

Downlinz

I'd probably enjoy it immensely, I'm the type of person who doesn't like a rigid structure in their lives, I don't have a family or partner to support and have enough self confidence to believe I'd get employment again before long. I'd enjoy the heck out of my freedom again, it'd be like school summer holidays.

woodoo

DarkJager wrote: »

Dealing with the social welfare will make you want to kill someone. It took almost 3 months to get my first payment from them, they don't seem to understand that companies chasing you for money are not interested in the delays provided by these incompetent arseholes.

You were not the only application they were dealing with. Unemployment has almost trebled since 08.

TangyZizzle

NOT go on the dole. I'd be mortified linin' up with the unwashed to collect my weekely allowance. *shudder*

paulosham

Stained Class wrote: »

I wouldn't! I've paid into the system for around 25 years now. Time to get something back.


Good idea in theory. If it's in Africa though, you abolutely know that all your good work will be eventually undone by the natives.

WTF?

Stained Class

paulosham wrote: »

WTF?

It's true. Things can seem grand for a little while there, but the natives always find time for a bit of an awld civil war from time to time...

Other senario; A dictator takes over, backed by some foriegn superpower & creates a no-go area for himself & his people.

Either way Africa is a bad investment for any normal individual.

If your running a Superpower country or a large Multinational company, you might do alright out of it though.....

DarkJager

woodoo wrote: »

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You were not the only application they were dealing with. Unemployment has almost trebled since 08.

I'm talking more about the staff than the wait time. Biggest bunch of useless ***** I've ever had the misfortune to deal with and the most deserving of joining the ****ing queue if the PS ever gets reformed. And the biggest joke is they have this person called a "deciding officer". He or she is a walking ****ing definition of irony.

Richard Hillman

Join the people before profit party,

[-0-]

Have a **** in my bosses cup.

LH Pathe

Stuff. I would actually do stuff. Work was the most counter productive, inane bollix for me personally. Great for the companies overall though I'd imagine.. as a combined effort. But when I put when I put my personal sanity and interests before money - few bodies in the deep freeze; one in the bath I gotta get to work on... Cos lemme tell ya, that's what really pays.. Little thing called Job Satisfaction.

Pace2008

Well, it's not a conditional question for me as I lost my accountancy job this year when my company outsourced their finance department to Asia.

I I used part of my redundancy payment to change direction completely and get a place in university doing something I'm genuinely interested in - science - and I'm loving it.

Blessing in disguise Best of luck to any of you who find themselves in a similar situation.

Azureus

I'd keep busy and actively look for another job/try and upskill as much as possible. I get bored very easily, and even if I dont work at the most motivating job at the moment it gets me up in the morning and it pays my bills-I dont envy anyone in that situation.

Chuck was taken

I've got family in Australia, so I'd go bum off them...

sh1tstirrer

imitation wrote: »

Become a pirate on the high seas, living a life of adventure and leaving a string of illegitimate children at ports across the world.

Then you would realize that with modern technology that you would be quickly tracked down and have a hefty maintenance bill waiting at the nearest port

DoneDL

Definetly emigrate even if it was for a few years, trouble is I am too old and have a family.

greenmachine88

Many interesting replies in here

Eric Cartman

come up with an idea for an IT startup, get some sort of funding for it, live off it for a few years in the hope it becomes successful, grow and sell weed on the side

Dudess

I'd get a job, just like that - out of thin air.

Eric Cartman wrote: »

grow and sell weed on the side

Seems kinda "Occupy"...

CricketDude

I was made redundant 13 months ago now. Got a nice big payout, had a great Christmas, went looking for a job the week after new year. Had a new higher paying job within the week. Redundancy is underrated

sapere_aude

This happened to a friend of mine just a few months ago. She was understandably devastated and it really hit her self-esteem immediately

Was really impressed with her attitude though... instead of having a big gap on her cv where she was just job-seeking and drawing welfare, she did voluntary work in an office for a NGO which sufficiently impressed her interviewers a few months later for her to actually be promoted to a position more senior than she'd been in when her firm shut shop.

In short, don't stay at home and stew - do something useful if you can. If nothing else, the routine will keep you feeling useful

Eric Cartman

Dudess wrote: »

I'd get a job, just like that - out of thin air.

Seems kinda "Occupy"...

using tax payers money to buy drugs seems kinda 'occupy' generating money from such an enterprise is a bit more capitalist

Nolanger

Beat the crap out of a tosser I worked with a few years back.