What would you do if you lost your job?

greenmachine88 · 02-01-2012 12:51AM #1

What would be your plan of action?

jonnyfingers · 02-01-2012 12:52AM

Get a new job.

hondasam · 02-01-2012 12:52AM

stay in bed until lunch time everyday.

sean1141 · 02-01-2012 12:53AM

greenmachine88 wrote: »

What would be your plan of action?

Look for a new one.

Johnny Foreigner · 02-01-2012 12:53AM

greenmachine88 wrote: »

What would be your plan of action?

Go on the dole.
Or emigrate.

Stained Class · 02-01-2012 12:55AM

Find something better to do with my life.

JustAddWater · 02-01-2012 12:55AM

Post on boards 24/6

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

UDAWINNER · 02-01-2012 12:58AM

Sign on for the good life that is the dole.

Kadent · 02-01-2012 01:01AM

spend a year working with some voluntary aid organisation overseas

02-01-2012 01:02AM

get another one

Killer Pigeon · 02-01-2012 01:04AM

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

Kadent · 02-01-2012 01:18AM

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 · 02-01-2012 01:21AM

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

I got a good pay off btw.

imitation · 02-01-2012 01:22AM

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 · 02-01-2012 01:40AM

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 · 02-01-2012 01:52AM

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 · 02-01-2012 01:58AM

If?

The Scientician · 02-01-2012 02:44AM

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 · 02-01-2012 02:58AM

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

Johnny Foreigner · 02-01-2012 03:00AM

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 · 02-01-2012 03:05AM

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 · 02-01-2012 03:08AM

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 · 02-01-2012 03:10AM

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 · 02-01-2012 03:11AM

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

paulosham · 02-01-2012 03:19AM

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 · 02-01-2012 03:42AM

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 · 02-01-2012 03:50AM

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 · 02-01-2012 04:55AM

Join the people before profit party,

[-0-] · 02-01-2012 05:04AM

Have a **** in my bosses cup.

LH Pathe · 02-01-2012 05:12AM

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 · 02-01-2012 06:31AM

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.

What would you do if you lost your job?

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