13th November 2008, 06:31 PM
The job situation with us has gone tits up too. Am out of work at the end of the month when my contracts up, and my boyfriends about to lose his job too - we thought we'd be able to weather out the next 6months and hopefully longer as had a PO job lined up.
Ive just had to pull out of this job as it involved moving and we have a morgage. We thought we'd be able to rent out our flat but theres so many houses that have been bought for buy to rent theres no takers. We cant afford to risk taking a house on as even one month of rent and morgage would cripple us.
And thats the problem with archaeology you dont usually manage to secure a constant enough stream of work to pay into any regular savings account and this is going to be a huge stumbling ground for archaeologists. We have no safety net. And all the talk of redundacy pay is almost irrelevent to the majority of fie;ldstaff as most are on short term contracts and wont qualify anyway.
Am thinking the only way to keep our home is to not live in it so will be looking for away jobs (but pref not in britain for the foreseeable future) - have been taking site assistant jobs for months which is **** but its work - although i do realise that the knock n effects of expierience staff who useually work at PO or supervisor level taking digging job makes things even harder for those starting out. Hopefully there will be an end to this but I dont think we will all come through it.
Ive just had to pull out of this job as it involved moving and we have a morgage. We thought we'd be able to rent out our flat but theres so many houses that have been bought for buy to rent theres no takers. We cant afford to risk taking a house on as even one month of rent and morgage would cripple us.
And thats the problem with archaeology you dont usually manage to secure a constant enough stream of work to pay into any regular savings account and this is going to be a huge stumbling ground for archaeologists. We have no safety net. And all the talk of redundacy pay is almost irrelevent to the majority of fie;ldstaff as most are on short term contracts and wont qualify anyway.
Am thinking the only way to keep our home is to not live in it so will be looking for away jobs (but pref not in britain for the foreseeable future) - have been taking site assistant jobs for months which is **** but its work - although i do realise that the knock n effects of expierience staff who useually work at PO or supervisor level taking digging job makes things even harder for those starting out. Hopefully there will be an end to this but I dont think we will all come through it.