Money – Welcome to my journey through redundancy

The Gig Economy : Utest Software Testing

I’m still trying to make ends meet using the Gig Economy. Following my tour of bus shelters, I thought I’d try something more familiar, software testing. Before being made redundant, testing software had been a large part of my day to day life. It was something I knew I could do, so I registered withContinue reading “The Gig Economy : Utest Software Testing”

Being in the Gig Economy : Shepper

Review of Shepper

Just been placed at risk of redundancy?

Between now and the Governments furlough scheme ending, a lot of people are going to find themselves redundant or in a redundancy process. There are some estimates of the unemployment rate being 7.5% by the end of the year. If you receive the dreaded, email, call, letter or even text message, then the following informationContinue reading “Just been placed at risk of redundancy?”

Two weeks in…..

I’ve been officially redundant for two weeks, so it’s a good time to pause for a second and see where things are. Am I closer to finding a job? Well, yes, but there’s still a long way to go. I’ve completed my CV and its uploaded to all of the usual suspects. I’ve made contactContinue reading “Two weeks in…..”

There maybe (money) trouble ahead….

Tuesday 16th June 2020 Another retrospective post. It took me a while to come up with this plan, but I wanted to mention it towards the start of my Blog, where it was most relevant. Also, as ‘the plan’ uses the amount of money in my final redundancy package, I needed to know that figureContinue reading “There maybe (money) trouble ahead….”