3rd February 2011, 01:47 PM
My other half is in the same position - over 20 yrs experience, unemployed since August (barring a couple of weeks in Oct/Nov), applying to any unit asking for diggers and getting nothing back. Since I have a more stable job, it's marginally less of a problem financially - though if it goes on too long it'll become one - but at the moment it's more about his feelings of being on the scrapheap after all these years. He's also tried the 'transferable skills' route but most employers don't really seem to care, probably because they assume he'd be off the minute an archaeology job came up, which isn't necessarily the case.
You can always tell a Brummie... but you can't tell him much