£1,000 a month plus something like £14 * 46 sectors = £644
So £1,644 * 6 months = £9,864 pa
Minus (a small amount of) income tax on the sector pay, living expenses and finance repayments.
Welcome to Breadline Britain.
Looks like the only game in town and the logbook will look seriously better at the end of the exercise. I feel desperately sorry that so many hard working, high calibre, go-getting people find themselves confronted with this. In times gone by - not so long ago - you would have had the world at your feet.
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