Are you tightening your belt?

[VectraMan]

Just noticed Tesco do 0% for 12 months on purchases, which is more useful. Still have to find the minimum payments though.

[BlackenedBiker]

A year ago I would have said that, it does sound plausible. But I have just had 9 months out. I am well qualified for the jobs I was applying for, but there just weren't many of them. In some cases I know that they went to people whom I know were less well qualified than me. I do not know why this was.

The market in my skills had a bad cold and will never fully recover, but as far as I can see is not totally flipped. Yet.

I suppose my working definition of that is that it is still better than any other career that I could now go in to. So it's not great, and the glory days will never return IMHO, but it's still the first choice.

Indeed that would indicate the market being flipped, which we all know it is.

But if it is flipped for over a year, then a good business man needs to find an alternative, whatever that might be. Be it permie-dom, temp job or re-training.

I wouldn't personally want to sit around for over a year. It would drive me crazy.

I hope you have found a gig. If not good luck with the search.