jimbobaggies
12-Apr-2005, 18:27
For the last 18 months I have been an equipment maintenance technician, before that a test technician, and process technician before that!
Now I settled into my new job quite easily, but by the middle of last year we all realised the company was going a) tits-up, or b) relocating (due to the fact they had an empty factory in China). The relocation started, and the factory where I work is going to reduce from 1100 to 360 people, and a couple of months ago I had a letter stating my job was at risk, with my leaving date (redundancy) of November 30th!
By admittance, I did say that I wanted to be made redundant, but would have prefered to leave earlier, or next year after I have finished my current OU course, and this now leaves me with a huge case of "cant be arsed itis"!
Cause of the nature of my job, I am building, wiring, and calibrating the equipment to go to china, but am a bit pissed that I have the "keen" engineers (who are keeping their jobs) on my back to get the work completed..... >:(
All I want to do is leave and find another job :(
Now, as I say, I quite like what I do at the moment (and am qualified / experienced to do it), but I do like computers networking etc, and would like the possibility to move into this field, and in preperation for this, I have been doing a BTEC IT: System support course finishing end of May, and an OU Diploma in IT, 2 years, but only started in January.
Anyways, I live in Devon, and any jobs earning similar, or better money as I am on tend to be at least 30 miles away, or at the other end of the country, and my misses doesn't want to move away, and I don't want to work away cause of being away from the kids......
[/end of "get it off my chest" tbh]
Now I settled into my new job quite easily, but by the middle of last year we all realised the company was going a) tits-up, or b) relocating (due to the fact they had an empty factory in China). The relocation started, and the factory where I work is going to reduce from 1100 to 360 people, and a couple of months ago I had a letter stating my job was at risk, with my leaving date (redundancy) of November 30th!
By admittance, I did say that I wanted to be made redundant, but would have prefered to leave earlier, or next year after I have finished my current OU course, and this now leaves me with a huge case of "cant be arsed itis"!
Cause of the nature of my job, I am building, wiring, and calibrating the equipment to go to china, but am a bit pissed that I have the "keen" engineers (who are keeping their jobs) on my back to get the work completed..... >:(
All I want to do is leave and find another job :(
Now, as I say, I quite like what I do at the moment (and am qualified / experienced to do it), but I do like computers networking etc, and would like the possibility to move into this field, and in preperation for this, I have been doing a BTEC IT: System support course finishing end of May, and an OU Diploma in IT, 2 years, but only started in January.
Anyways, I live in Devon, and any jobs earning similar, or better money as I am on tend to be at least 30 miles away, or at the other end of the country, and my misses doesn't want to move away, and I don't want to work away cause of being away from the kids......
[/end of "get it off my chest" tbh]