What would you do if you lost your job?

Azureus · 02-01-2012 07:22AM

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 · 02-01-2012 10:47AM

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

sh1tstirrer · 02-01-2012 10:57AM

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 · 02-01-2012 11:38AM

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

greenmachine88 · 02-01-2012 03:10PM

Many interesting replies in here

Eric Cartman · 02-01-2012 03:50PM

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 · 02-01-2012 03:55PM

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 · 02-01-2012 03:58PM

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 · 02-01-2012 04:03PM

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 · 02-01-2012 04:04PM

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 · 02-01-2012 04:05PM

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

What would you do if you lost your job?

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