Hows your Industry?

[james79]

i work for a large steel construction company and since xmas we have been flat out but before that we had a very poor 18 months

[LeeinVA]

The industry I work in (Construction) is a dead man walking at the moment and the sun on the horizon seems to be dipping fast rather than rising…Subcontractors are ringing daily searching for work opportunities and none of the Architects or Surveyors have much if anything in the pipeline.

 

House building is continuing but nothings being bought or sold, the young can’t get mortgages and the bottom of the housing ladder is well and truly ******. DIY group Focus are in receivership as a result of the lack of confidence and the stagnation in the housing market.

 

Many of the Multi National Contractors are muscling in on lesser markets that they would not normally consider, buying work for turn over just to keep the shareholders happy and crippling smaller regional Contractors. The Governments ( if you can call it that) plan for the Private sector to step in when the Local and Health Authority capital budgets were slashed has failed miserably, as any one with any knowledge of the industry said it would and things are looking very, very gloomy for hundreds of thousands of Construction Employees.

 

I reckon within the next few weeks or months one or two of the really big players in the Industry are going to fold and by this time next year unemployment will be at levels we have never seen in this country before.

 

 

I was made redundant last november the 11th. I have made a career change and now sell insurance, however, i do miss commercial construction. Our economy is **** and we need a complete overhall. The news has been flooded with the latest standings of the US economy. Our residential housing industry is flooded with homes people have lost due to foreclosures. Until the housing industry improves all facets of our economy is sure to suffer.

[LikeitLARGE]

Adey, we retire from the police after 30 years but that does not mean we can all give up work completely.

To go from £40k a year to £13k a year if you still have kids and a mortgage is no fun. That's why so many officers want to stay on. It's quite hard to find good work when all you have done for the last 30 years is locking people up.

 

Harry

 

Harry let go though your reply

 

All other UK workers do 30 years service and then HAVE to carry on as we have to as we do have the option of getting access to our penison,

40K a year over 30 years ummmmm then down to 13K yes I can see the hardship that causes but lets put in plain some workers struggle to earn 13k in the first place let alone from a penison scheme part funded by the the UK tax payers.

And you say its hard to find a job but you only need to find a job of 27K to bring you up to income you are getting in the force.

I guess it pretty hard but ever officer I know looks like they could struggle to find another job due to there fittness levels rather than there skill levels.

 

Adey

[njc110381]

I'm in landscaping. Our work is plodding in slowly but we're not seeing many of the big contracts that we used to. A lot of people are making do with the house they have and having improvement work done so that keeps us running. It means more time quoting to get the same income but hey, it's still an income.

 

Regarding the police, what use is an old copper? Ok they know what they're doing but there are only so many desk staff you can keep. If I'd just nicked something I'd be well chuffed if I had some poor 65 year old bloke chasing me. By that stage of life most people are up on you in the fitness stakes so you'd struggle to catch most youngsters. Poor old Harry struggles to keep up with some of them already and he's got a long way to go before he hits 65!

 

You could keep them on in a desk job but that would cost more than pensioning them off. The police put up with a lot of grief and risk every day so who cares if they retire early?