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Originally Posted by Here For The Leftovers

I was looking forward to Christmas this year mainly because last years was depressing as we lost our dog in November last year, so was hoping this one would be more positive.

However I found out about a month ago that my job is being made redundant at the beginning of the year. The firm I work for is going through a big restructure and they’ve lost a lot of money in the last 2 years so by the end of January I could be out of a job.

My boss mentioned that there will be a job within the firm that I can apply for (which I obviously will) and he’s really hoping that I get it but there isn’t any guarantee that I will. I’m just trying to stay as positive as I can for the most part but it’s very hard. It’s been on my mind every night since I found out.

Originally Posted by Here For The Leftovers

Yh it’s really **** timing tbh. I’m not gonna lie tho I did see it coming for a long while. The way that the firm has been run for the last couple years has been dreadful and I’ve sat back and seen how so much money has just been wasted on absolute nonsense. I’m not in a position in the company that can decide these things, if I were to suggest something that would need changing they wouldn’t listen because the people above know best (which they clearly didn’t) and I knew what the end result would eventually be.

I’m kinda unsure whether I actually want to stay or not. On one hand I do because I like a majority of the people I work with and my boss really wants me to stay but on the other hand, if the firm doesn’t turn things around within the next year we will all be out of a job and that’s something that only time will tell.

…ahhhhh, so sorry to hear this, Shaun……It’s so difficult when these things happen because it’s the unprepared thing about them as well so a ‘path forward’ isn’t something that’s there either…what I will say is that I know someone who went through something similar a few years ago…and of course, it was such an anxious time….change is never an easy thing because change brings uncertainties and we’re such creatures of the things we know, even when they’re things that aren’t particularly adding anything to our lives, either…sometimes changes are forced on us and with those changes, what we find is something that is much more suited and work enhancing for us…as you say, you’ve felt quite stifled in your employment and that inevitability that this is where it may all lead to, you were being held back in positivity toward your job….whether or not it’s this job within the firm that you’re applying for or something that hasn’t yet presented…?..this is something that could lead to something that you would never have found if this hadn’t happened because you would have just ‘carried on’…you know…?…that’s no consolation right now, I know…but this right now and what’s happened and happening is not your future/an ending so much as it’s also a path to and a beginning and hopefully a much brighter working life for 2025…you take care……