Things are pretty bad out there nobody seems to be hiring, at least in the accountancy field. In that accountants feel its bad, in that when clients jobs take an hour when they previously took 2-3 days you know its bad.
Anedotally when I was still working as an accountant I worked near the payroll department, it was an absolute apocalypse, we, or rather they kept on running out of pre-printed p45 slips we would have deliveries almost daily and still they would run out of them. I wonder how bad it is going to get as this is presumably just the start.
I have however found a job as a kitchen porter working for a bangladeshi resturant in a small town not far from where I live. They are a nice couple who smile an awful lot, I help out now and again lifting and doing the chopping as well as washing the dishes. Pay? , national minimum wage £5.85 an hour.
Although granted working as an accountant wasn't exactly the highest paid job in the world either, I used to make just under £10 an hour. But its a big fall from grace when I used to earn about £270 a week post tax down to £117 a week. Being under 25, single and renting I am ineligible for any benefits. Although I would probably not take them anyway as it is an admission of defeat.
