[IceFire]

My job is somewhat insulated...for now.  But I know allot of people who are fearing for their positions at various companies.  Its starting to become a dire situation.  I was thinking of a return to school but with virtually no prospects after graduation from a 1 year program I think I'm going to wait until things get better or my job gets eliminated.

Prof, right?

Not a prof but I do technology training with profs amongst other things.

[darkone]

No layoffs yet where I work but there was a hiring freeze and they suspended raises and bonuses this year. I got layed off in 2002 but got another job within a month. Tech isn't that bad to be in most of the time. A lot of the time it is the way people represent themselves and the sector they are trying to find a job in. It will pickup. Only thing I don't like about recessions are that companies use it to hire a bunch of people at dirt cheap prices. So when the economy does recover you are getting under paid for your services and have fun time trying to get it adjusted to the market average.

[Black Wolf]

I got dropped a few months back, am returning to Uni, and already managed to pick up a job at the bartending at the uni Tavern here. Also have applied for another job at the WA Museum, I think/hope I'm in with a good shot at that.
I'm hoping that another year at uni will insulate me, and put me out at a better time, but if it doesn't I'll hang on to bartending, try to get a vac job at the end of the year and go back for a year of postgrad geophysics. Fortunately, the government'll pay for it more or less indefinitely, so all I have to worry about is supporting myself

The mining industry in WA is in freefall - by it's nature it's a cyclic thing - boom and bust - but nobody I've spoken to can remember it crashing so quickly from such a height to such a low as we're in now. It was only a year or two ago I remember hearing we had a 20 year mining boom on our hands. Damned optimism.

[Charismatic]

Fortunately, the government'll pay for it more or less indefinitely, so all I have to worry about is supporting myself

Financial aid\ grants?

[Black Wolf]

Fortunately, the government'll pay for it more or less indefinitely, so all I have to worry about is supporting myself

Financial aid\ grants?

HECS. Interest free loans that only get paid back when you earn enough money, ad that any citizen gets without having to go through any kind of application process. Just tick a box on a form and you're good.

[Dilmah G]

The mining industry in WA is in freefall - by it's nature it's a cyclic thing - boom and bust - but nobody I've spoken to can remember it crashing so quickly from such a height to such a low as we're in now. It was only a year or two ago I remember hearing we had a 20 year mining boom on our hands. Damned optimism.

And those bastards said clear skies for the next twenty years...

Well that's what happens when everyone left right and center drops everything and lines up at BP asking for work

[Charismatic]

Fortunately, the government'll pay for it more or less indefinitely, so all I have to worry about is supporting myself

Financial aid\ grants?

HECS. Interest free loans that only get paid back when you earn enough money, ad that any citizen gets without having to go through any kind of application process. Just tick a box on a form and you're good.

Who gets this? How? Lol it sounds good.

[Dilmah G]

Well everyone does regardless really, kind of eliminates the need for a "College Fund".