• Question: If cuts are made will your job be affected?

    Asked by Bronwyn to Alex, Chris, Mohamed, Rik, Victoria on 11 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Rik Allen

      Rik Allen answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      Hi,

      In my first job there were serious cuts, and I volunteered to leave because they paid me to go. I’d been there 11 years and it was very good for me to move on. My girlfriend (now wife) had only just started, so we left together and moved to a different part of the country.

      It’s always possible that the company I work for decides it doesn’t want to do what I do anymore. I think I’d be able to find something else in the same company, but I don’t think I’d want to, and would move on. I think I could get work nearby, or perhaps Cambridge, or move to the America/Canada so I’d be quite relaxed about it.

      Rik

    • Photo: Alex Shenfield

      Alex Shenfield answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      I hope not.

      I am reasonably confident in terms of my job security. I think (hope!) it would take a fairly drastic turn of events to jepordise my job – we will always need people to train the next generation of engineers!

    • Photo: Victoria Sharpe

      Victoria Sharpe answered on 15 Mar 2015:

      It’s always possible. Cuts come about but you need to see them as an opportunity to try something else

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