Been made redundant today

Working with adults with learning difficulties is a big area.

I have worked in the formal education and training field for people who have disabilities which sometimes covered learning difficulties and visual impairment. You need a lot of empathy and patience and be able to take many different approaches to a similar problem for different people. You may also have to learn a lot of different skills and pick up a lot of knowledge and be able to apply what who have learnt time and time again. Its easy to short cut but that often does not really help the person with learning difficulties learn for themselves. There also has been financial cutbacks in this area, because helping people with learning difficulties is often seen as expensive and many organisations see it as an area for cost savings when the financial pressure is on. Decide on possibly areas of more specific help, say independent living, rehabilitation, social care, education and training and particular areas of learning difficulty say mental or physical or sensory. Possibly do a bit of voluntary work at a day centre to get a greater insight. When he works out it can be very mentally rewarding. I look at a lot of jobs and think they are so superficial after I had worked to transform lives.
 
TheFair86 said:
I used to do weddings and found them to be a total grind. Bit of a race to the bottom as well - you're either firm with your prices and lose out on business to 'Our mate Phil who just got a camera', or you knock prices down and devalue your work. It's also very crowded due to the low barrier to entry these days, and people willing to give full image rights, a cheapo album and a dvd and full days coverage for £300-400, do the math on that and its crazy money for the effort/editing time. Also found it just drained my actual love of photography to the point that I use use a phone camera now instead of a 30mp camera and about 10 grand worth of lenses, seems like another lifetime now. Also some crazy bridezillas. Had one that tried to give me a list of 40 photos she wanted - not group shots, but things like "groom looking at watch looking worried as bride running late while best man consoles him", yeah I'll just set that up while we wait...and another that wanted every daisy in a photo editing out - had no idea what she meant at first when she said I should have seen the weeds everywhere. It was literally the spot they had asked their group shots to be taken at, on the day they chose to get married, and wanted me to edit every daisy ot of about 200 photos.

I've been made redundant twice - once when I was a team manager at Barclays, and once when I worked at npower as a Business Analyst. Both times it was the best thing that could have happened to me as got money for training, big fat payout and walked into better jobs. If it happened now though it would be much more worrying due to the amount of people also looking for work that might already have the skills and experience.

If I were you Scuba, unless your financially very comfortable, get any job that has money coming in and then start looking at your options. Easier to get a job when you have a job, and less pressure.
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Solid advice in the last. Paragraph
 
Do you have skills that could be used to teach others in? Technical skills etc? Always a demand for people with such skills to teach stuff to kids/young adults. Good foot in the door too if you wanted to do other things in that field.
Best of luck, keep us posted and as Fair said,b try to get ANY job asap. Definitely easier to get work if you have it .
 
If that place was toxic then it's worth some time out of work. See it as an opportunity and don't be rushed into taking a post yiu don't fancy. From the little I know of you I think you'd be excellent at supporting adults so if that's what you fancy then go for it. Good luck!
 
Sorry to hear that, been in your position before and I found it horrific but it sounds like you are taking it in your stride and see it as an opportunity. After 5 months of worrying every day I got a email a few days ago to say I had got through the selection process and was safe, never known relief like it. 1/3 of my shift lost their jobs which is heartbreaking. The company told 3 of my mates they were redundant and then had to phone them up 2 days later to say they had mucked up and they actually weren’t which is appalling. Good luck with everything, you will be fine, even the most specialists roles have transferable skills and it’s amazing how much you can glam up a cv without lying.
 
Best of luck Scuba, I was made redundant once, and for me it was like being dumped by the wife. I took it very personally for weeks. Try not to do that and take a little time, if you can, to assess where you are and what you want to do for the rest of your life.
 
Scubahood said:
From a company that's pretty rotten to the core and to be honest I'm glad to be out of there. Place is run appallingly, favouritism and nepotism is rife and the only reason I'd stuck it for so long was because I was in my comfort zone with the surroundings and colleagues etc. My mental health has definitely deteriorated in that time however, possibly due to this.

I was thinking about getting properly trained up for something, possibly working with adults who have learning difficulties? I get pleasure from helping people, so was wondering if anyone on here works in that area? Also been told I should start trying to sell my photography but I know that's a very competitive area, especially for a relative amateur.

Any words of advice/encouragement would be greatly appreciated :)
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I hope you get sorted very soon mate. I was paid off last month and I started matched betting to make an income (and give myself something to do) and it’s going ok. I don’t see it as long term I want to get back into contracting ASAP but there’s nothing about. Have a look at profit accumulator or oddsmonkey and see if it appeals to you. I realise I’m about to get slated for this but it’s no lose and it passes the time whilst bringing in a few bob tax free. Good luck with whatever you do next.
 
Look at it as an opportunity, considering working with adults with learning difficulties shows that your a caring individual. Go for it , you'll gain huge personal self worth in seeing someone open up or move to another level.
It's the JOB that's been made redundant not you!
 
Jimstewart said:
I hope you get sorted very soon mate. I was paid off last month and I started matched betting to make an income (and give myself something to do) and it’s going ok. I don’t see it as long term I want to get back into contracting ASAP but there’s nothing about. Have a look at profit accumulator or oddsmonkey and see if it appeals to you. I realise I’m about to get slated for this but it’s no lose and it passes the time whilst bringing in a few bob tax free. Good luck with whatever you do next.
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definitely money to be made through matched betting, as long as you’re not the sort to get sucked into gambling it’s a good way of taking money off the bookies risk free. I’ve been doing it for ages. I’d say making a full income from it isn’t realistic without taking risks (multiple accounts), and I’d suggest staying away from high risk slot offers (But hammer low risk and risk free), but it definitely brings cash in.

The golden times for me was when almost every bookie was doing a £25-50 refund if one leg of an acca let you down, and there were spreadsheets to calculate the profit etc, you could underlay where you were confident of a result so you either got a £1-2 loss, £40 profit (most cases) or sometimes over a hundred quid a go with a few undelays. Used to save a few £50 free bets for Cheltenham.

The other was bet365 2up which was amazing, several games where I made over £1k profit. They’ve hobbled the odds now though so much harder to do. I lost my account after putting through 200k in a month and they did a kyc review. Sad times, but made a fortune out of it while the going was good and set up a Sep account using a mates details and a burner phone.

Not for everyone though, and a few find it too hard work. But if bored single mums on net mums can do it, anyone can
 
Don’t take this personally gents, but avoid gambling like the plague Scubs!
Yes, some folk make a living out of it, but for the majority it is a money sink. Not what you need when you are out of work.
Just my opinion and I’m sure there are others that disagree with me.
 
Sorry to hear scubs. Try looking for jobs with adults, there’s jobs where you can do sleep over etc without any qualifications working with adults and then while your on the Job train etc
 
weemoby said:
Don’t take this personally gents, but avoid gambling like the plague Scubs!
Yes, some folk make a living out of it, but for the majority it is a money sink. Not what you need when you are out of work.
Just my opinion and I’m sure there are others that disagree with me.
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Matched betting isn't gambling, its exploiting bookie offers for free bets/spins and using a provided data feed to match up a bet with a counter-bet that leaves you in a positive position due to the free offer. i.e bookie offers you £25 if you bet £25. you bet £25 on team A to win, and bet £25 on team A to NOT win, this leaves you about 50p down either way no matter the win, lose or draw result. But you now have the £25 free bet to use up, and you do the same again, betting the amount the calculator tells you to make approx 80% profit out of that free bet. Repeat continuously - you can rack up about £400-800 in opening account offers depending on time of year, and leverage cash back sites to boost that a bit, then there are existing customer offers released all the time, and offers that are always on for example refunds if your horse comes second. It used to be easy to make £1000 a month, even more if hammering 2-up, but its still reasonably easy too make several hundred quid a month without actually gambling anything.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2010/jul/24/free-bets-bookies

There's even a section on MoneySavingExpert about it.
 
Plenty of work as a support worker especially for men as there's a shortage, the money is poor though, care work should be better paid but can't see anything changing any time soon.
 
Working with the very elderly is a growing area, but it can be extremely difficult both physically and psychologically solely dealing with people at the end of their lives.
 
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