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Time waits for no man...or woman!

29th October 2020

When a lot of us were initially presented with the new concept of WFH we relished it.  There’s no doubt that the opportunity to avoid the daily commute to the office was welcome. Yes, we needed a break from the monotony of sitting in our cars for hours on end every week, from getting ready for work the night before, from queuing for lunch at our local Spar/Centra at lunchtime (oh what I’d give to queue for a Chopped Salad right now…I might even go mad and have a bag of Tayto Treble Crunch!)…but did we really think we would still be here 9 months later!

It’s time to breathe and start thinking about what our next move is

But with this came the worry about job security…again, did we think we would still be here in 9 months?! Suddenly we started to think that maybe this was just the start of worse things to come! But now we’re starting to see people we are connected with on Linkedin starting new jobs, and not because they were amongst the unfortunate ones to lose their jobs during Covid-19, or because they jumped ship for fear of losing their jobs…but because they genuinely realised that the jobs market hasn’t taken a dive off the edge of a cliff but instead yes there are actually jobs out there! God, I hope I haven’t jinxed the recruitment sector now!

Now that we realise our jobs are more secure than they were at the start of the pandemic maybe it’s time to breathe and start thinking about what our next move is. There’s nothing worse than having to look for a job due to redundancy and as they say, it’s easier to find a job when you are i