Sunday, October 12, 2008

The day I was made redundant


These days we're all worried about losing our jobs, but there is life after redundancy

Michael Sinclair must be one of the busiest professionals in the City right now. He's not a banker, but a psychologist. He deals with people who have been made redundant and are having some difficulty coping. People like me.

As once mighty banks such as Lehman Brothers fall and organisations such as the British Chambers of Commerce predict up to 300,000 job losses across the UK, a sense of palpable fear has replaced the overweening confidence of the bubble years. Who's next? Could it be you?

After ten years working at the heart of the BBC, a small panic gripped me as I realised that, yes, my time was up. I wondered briefly, if melodramatically, whether this sense of being evicted foreshadowed the feelings I might have at the end of life itself.

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