15th August 2012, 05:38 PM
All permanent jobs are only permanent until they're not. I've been made redundant after 13 months in a permanent job. Once, I passed an interview for a permanent job which was reorganised out of existence a week before my start date - that has to be some sort of record. Thankfully my almost-previous employer accepted my un-resignation and allowed me to continue with them. The most expensive item on any set of company accounts, is the staff headcount. If the beancounters need to cut costs fast, they just strike a few names off a spreadsheet.
These days, no job in any industry is *actually* permanent in the way that my parents' generation understood it.
These days, no job in any industry is *actually* permanent in the way that my parents' generation understood it.