I work in the sales office here David -
www.snows-commercials.co.uk.
And thank you
Hope it works out for you, Nick.
I think the best approach is to try & see it as being a glass half full rather than a glass half empty.
Try & look forward to the opportunity of being forced/encouraged into making some (potential) life changes rather than just drifting along as you were..... being
forced into actually doing something you have always wanted to do? - Be it a new line of work, someplace new or even just try & get a job within easy commute (think how much you'd save if you could walk to work & be able to get rid of the daily driver!)
I was made redundant from a job oooh 14 years ago, I'd been in the job 5 or so years & my life (workwise) was what the French describe as:
"[
I]métro, boulot, dodo[/I]" (Literal translation: subway, work, sleep informal meaning: same old routine, work work work)
We took the opportunity to move (to the Lake District, somewhere I'd always wanted to live). OK the pay was much less but we had a really enjoyable couple of years living a stress free life, so in that sense redundancy was a blessing.