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I’ve just completed four weeks of unemployment. It continues to be very emotional. But I do think that I’m starting to get the hang of it. ...

Day two of unemployment. Going well so far. Yesterday I went out for a celebratory breakfast. The full English. I considered it a rite of p...

You can’t help but absorb some of the bad vibes from around yourself, unless you are a person of iron will. I am not a person of iron will....

It’s possible that I’ve made a very big mistake. I think I may have come very close to getting a new job. A job with more money doing what I...

For the first time since I learned that I was being made redundant I feel that I’m in a better place emotionally. My outlook is starting to...

I hope upon hope that once I am made redundant I can find other employment. I fear for the future. I can’t see that, at my age, I’ll be abl...

Life is like being on a rollercoaster at the moment; a mixture of a few highs and a great many dramatic lows. Work is so painful now as I k...

When we were told at the beginning of last week that the branch of the company I work for was closing it really didn’t come as any surprise...

Last Saturday we had the pleasure of visiting the John Jarrold Printing Museum in Norwich. Spending a fascinating couple of hours there. Th...

For every £1 million that is paid to some fat-cat executive you could employ 40 people at £25,000, 50 people at £20,000 or 66.6 at £15,000. ...

As I’m sure you can imagine I have no truck with nationalists or patriots. I’m with Oscar on that one. The concept of a British identity is ...

Amongst the narrow-minded rich and middle-classes there is a concept of the undeserving poor. The idea that those at the lower end of the in...

To the unemployed person it doesn’t matter what the level of unemployment is as for them it’s 100%. Today’s unemployment figure of 2.62 mill...

Does that make me a bad person? I don’t like capitalism but, as I’m not prepared to opt out of ‘the system’ and live in a ditch, I’ve lear...

You would think that in these lean times buying parts for industry would be a piece of cake. But, I suspect if you were to ask any buyer in ...

I had a bit of an email-banter with a work colleague today that I thought I’d share with you. I’ve removed company identifiers and changed t...

”Work is the curse of the drinking classes” Following on from my previous post I’d like to challenge the notion of work. ...

Last night’s programme The Day the Immigrants Left introduced by Evan Davis had a predictable outcome. Centred in the Fens it took white E...

This recession, this unwelcome manifestation is hitting people in many different ways. I feel for those that have lost their jobs, for those...

Today at work the blokes in the factory organised their own alternative Olympics. See Great Britain keeping it's end up on YouTube by cl...