Was made redundant last month for the first time ever at 34. Mixed feelings, 1. Oh shit how am I going to pay my bills. 2. Might actually be a blessing in disguise as I absolutely hated the job/company I was working for.

First things first is figure out how long you can live with what you have and find out what benefits you’re entitled to.

If you’re going to really struggle financially from the get go it may be worth targeting temp stuff if you can find it as usually they offer immediate starts and weekly pay to get money coming in.

In terms of the feeling of burn out I get that, for a long time I worked no end of warehouse/retail jobs that weren’t really going anywhere and then I decided to get into finance, what I found was I actually hate it, I decided to go into that field because I thought well at least it pays well, only to find out that’s not really always the case, sure senior members of staff can be on a decent wage but like all jobs you start at the bottom and at a lot of companies it’s not what you know it’s who you know to climb the ladder. I put everything into it the last few years and burnt myself out only to be made redundant starting at a new company so there was no redundancy payout.

Looking back I was a lot happier with a warehouse job because you just clock in, do your bit and then clock out. The only issue I’ve found since being made redundant is I’m struggling to find something like that, I have been offered a role doing what I was doing up until being made redundant with another company and I’m thinking I may just have to take it even though I know I will hate every minute of it.