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Credit crunch job poll 

How has the credit crunch affected your job?
My income hasn't been reduced at all. 55%  55%  [ 21 ]
I'm still employed but my income has been reduced. 13%  13%  [ 5 ]
I'm still employed but worried about redundancies. 5%  5%  [ 2 ]
I've been made redundant. 13%  13%  [ 5 ]
I wasn't employed to start with / student / NA etc. 13%  13%  [ 5 ]
Total votes : 38

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E. F. Benson
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My Accountant is an Independent Financial Advisor too.
He never sells me anything like

I wonder if this financial adviser is pi$$ed off because he's not selling as many mortgages, pensions and insurance policies due to the recession?

Don't do this. The guy just gives it like he sees it. Telling people to pay off their loans which cost more in interest than they can earn by investing seems good advice to me.
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Don't do this. The guy just gives it like he sees it.


This is a forum where people post their opinions. It was a thought I had in my head and I typed it. I just give it as I see it :) :roll:

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E. F. Benson wrote:

Don't do this. The guy just gives it like he sees it.


This is a forum where people post their opinions. It was a thought I had in my head and I typed it. I just give it as I see it :) :roll:


Fair enough. As mentioned by another it can seem to get a bit combative during a discussion. Hugs and kisses xxx
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it can seem to get a bit combative during a discussion.


And this is just something as trivial as money. You should see the fallout from a PS3 vs Xbox or Mac vs PC thread ;)

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E. F. Benson wrote:
it can seem to get a bit combative during a discussion.


And this is just something as trivial as money. You should see the fallout from a PS3 vs Xbox or Mac vs PC thread ;)


I was going to say I thought it was quite tame for us lol

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The problem is knowing what else I could do.


Precisely the conundrum I found myself with. Over the past few months, I've found "what I'm good at" ceased to provide enjoyment. I found it a drudge, I couldn't - still can't - "create" anything at the moment. I sit looking at a blank sheet of paper, or a blank screen, and nothing happens. Add into the mix those clients who want to pay a percentage of £3.50 for the one design out of the ten concepts you managed, and whose 8-year-old nephew can do it in Microsoft Word...


Whatever happened to my Nephew Art image?

The problem here being that I have absolutely no current “office experience” and certainly no idea about how to use Excel and Word in anger, which kind of kills the family’s suggestions stone dead. I think their imagination runs as far as what my sister is doing (which is Local Authority admin).

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Photography might be an answer, but that is full of people just like me. I enjoy it for a hobby, but I could never make a living at it. Still, I've put feelers out to my little network, and perhaps there'll be a little work come my way.


I’m kind of feeling the same way. I’ve not been as organised as you (been noticing your Facebook posts), but I guess you are more advanced along that path. I’m entering the “oh, crap” phase and feeling dismal.

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So I've been looking at alternatives I could do that didn't necessarily involve trying to be a creative person. It's why I looked at courier work. I can drive, I can read maps, I know my local area quite well. It will get me out meeting new people, and maybe it'll help clear this creative logjam in my head.

Onwards and sideways!


Yeah.

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Holy Thread Resurrection Batman!

Due to my impending nuptuals, I am about to face a barrage of questions about why I don't have a job. I have just found the perfect expression of why this is.

The following is from the >> Lancashire Telegraph <<

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MORE than 4,000 people applied for just 190 jobs at Blackburn’s new Primark store, it can be revealed.

Bosses at the popular discount retailer, which opens its doors in the new Mall development on July 26, interviewed 680 people after being inundated with 4,130 CVs.

The new store will have 193 full and part-time employees, including management.

The stunning total of applicants is 300 more than the number of people in Blackburn and Darwen who are registered as unemployed and seeking work....

... However, although the number of applications was hailed by bosses, some business leaders have said it should be seen as a warning as it shows how difficult finding work in the area now is.

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There are many excuses, some will go over better than others. You are a prospective Tory candidate and want to see how easy it is to live on the dole so that you can cut it even more. Or that you are considering the role of house husband and being kept by your woman, not best said to in-laws though. :D

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There are many excuses, some will go over better than others.

It's not an excuse - it's how it is.

The North has been f***ed over by the South - again :x

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There are many excuses, some will go over better than others.

It's not an excuse - it's how it is.

The North has been f***ed over by the South - again :x


I may just be badly out of date, but I thought you lived in North Devon?

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rustybucket wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
There are many excuses, some will go over better than others.

It's not an excuse - it's how it is.

The North has been f***ed over by the South - again :x


I may just be badly out of date, but I thought you lived in North Devon?

I did - up until October when my contract ran out.

I'm now back oop narth

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There are many excuses, some will go over better than others.

It's not an excuse - it's how it is.

The North has been f***ed over by the South - again :x

I will agree that the government needs to spend money creating jobs up north. Yes governments have treated the North with disdain for years, it should end.

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The North has been f***ed over by the South - again :x


While there is merit in what you say, it ain't no bowl of roses down here either. :(

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Amnesia10 wrote:
There are many excuses, some will go over better than others.

It's not an excuse - it's how it is.

The North has been f***ed over by the South - again :x


Yeah sure. :roll:

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rustybucket wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
There are many excuses, some will go over better than others.

It's not an excuse - it's how it is.

The North has been f***ed over by the South - again :x


Yeah sure. :roll:

Yeah sure.... what exactly?

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