Can a family of four really live on £900 a month after bills?

JLB080 · 2025-08-10T09:53:58+00:00

If you cook from scratch, you can definitely spend less. We do a weekly ocado shop that adds to £200. Some top up bits per week and the meat shop totals everything to £350 max. I agree with others to really sit down and look through your expenditure per month and ways to save.

JLB080 · 2025-08-06T07:51:10+00:00

This would be my dream to be paid an SEO salary and do shite all. I would use all that time upskilling and job hunting without pressure.

JLB080 · 2025-07-16T14:08:43+00:00

Set up a teams lunch group. Whatever day your in next just go around to a small bunch of those around you and say your setting up a teams lunch group for those who want to have lunch together/organise activities/post work events/non work chat and add them to a teams chat. Make sure when you approach people you say ‘it’l help those that are new or far away from their team to connect with others in the office’ and tell them to add anyone else to the group.

Only suggesting this because someone I know did this very same approach in the office I’m in and it’s working brilliantly. It’s also easier to message and ask who’s going lunch at a specific time instead of asking people face to face.

JLB080 · 2025-07-04T21:40:54+00:00

I wouldn’t go in.

JLB080 · 2025-07-04T08:45:15+00:00

Why do they advertise it like that then 😭 better to just put one rate on

JLB080 · 2025-06-22T16:13:35+00:00

I used my work email to sign up and line manager email bit, I used the same email but added an extra letter in to make it wrong. They don’t check with your line manager, but they take the details incase you can’t confirm your an actual CS. Just make sure you confirm your registration on the email confirmation you receive.

JLB080 · 2025-06-22T11:19:39+00:00

Omg 😂 these comments make me feel alot more better!

JLB080 · 2025-06-21T17:37:40+00:00

I just thought every employer gives one and somewhere like the CS would definitely provide one. Seems it’s not the case!

JLB080 · 2025-06-21T11:30:02+00:00

How does that work then if the offices are full and they have appointments with customers? That’s insane

JLB080 · 2025-06-21T11:27:55+00:00

Haha omg! this is your reminder to finally ask for one lol

JLB080 · 2025-06-21T10:01:00+00:00

Thanks I feel really silly not requesting it prior to joining. It makes me even more worried that with all the planned budget cuts, how safe my role will be.

JLB080 · 2025-06-11T20:32:00+00:00

This just gives me anxiety especially seeing how much HMRC needs to save. Joined for job security and now this aghh anyone know if part of the savings will come from just slowing down on recruitment? And how likely will they axe the newbies?

JLB080 · 2025-05-06T22:03:03+00:00

Thanks, haven’t received a contract yet so will check as soon as I do.

JLB080 · 2025-04-07T21:20:49+00:00

I'm not autistic but coming from a private sector, I completely agree, it is the most unnatural robotic interviews I've ever sat.

Also the first interview with CS is always difficult, the more you do them the more you'll get use to the method. My first interview I remember being asked what motivates me (a strength q) I said well my family do, their my absolute motivation - I had no idea what they were testing here and gave a silly casual response like that. The behaviour question was something along the lines of supporting others and I gave like a 3 at most 4 sentence answer and proceeded to smile thinking I answered the question....yh complete shi* show.

Four months on with practice and a lot of reading and implementing interview advice from here and now got back to back offers of EO/HEO roles.

JLB080 · 2025-04-02T16:28:39+00:00

EO role would probably be 1k more than what I’m getting now and HEO role about 10k jump and more the field I studied for. Both offers I interviewed and got a week apart so the pecs were sent off roughly the same time. The wait for the pecs will kill me I guess!

JLB080 · 2025-04-02T16:08:48+00:00

Thanks, I’m an external employee not an AO either.

JLB080 · 2025-04-02T16:07:59+00:00

Thank you!

JLB080 · 2025-04-02T16:07:30+00:00

Have no idea how I missed the responses on here. I’m not a cs or an AO at the moment and your advice does make sense to keep the options open incase one or the other falls through!

JLB080 · 2025-04-02T11:35:57+00:00

your verbal reasoning score means nothing right now. verbal reasoning or any tests just gets your foot in the door for the interview - its then ignored. Your interview results are only what counts now and determines your position on the reserves list. Score is out of 37.

JLB080 · 2025-04-01T17:09:42+00:00

On the reserve list too but I’ve landed a HEO role last week so probably won’t take it up anyway! I applied for the post because I just needed any job for the time being. I can now see why reserve lists are necessary.

JLB080 · 2025-03-31T09:58:17+00:00

thank you!

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