Thanks Susan, hope you're doing really well!
Not doing too marvellously just now. The media started reporting last night that Northern Rock will be broken up and sold this year. I work there and I don't think I can cope with going through the same thing again. We had a year of uncertaintly last time - and could have 8 to 12 months this time. I also need to save a serious amount of cash now, to have a chance of keeping my flat when it happens. I'm taking the pessimistic view that this time, we're all going to be made redundant. It feels safer to do that than to hope.
I'll be looking at a 50% paycut (there is no work up here to begin with, let alone work that pays what I earn). I can just survive like that, if I can find that work quickly enough. Unfortunately, there is virtually no work up here for what I do - and I'd have hundreds of people chasing the few jobs there are.
But I have my health, my life, and I'll be ok. I am quitting LL from thursday though (I have enough packs to finish rtm on my own and I can't justify spending even another £66 on it, not when I am having to work out how to live on £25 a week for food and household goods.).