Always in civvy street. After 35 years employment I took redundancy and was unemployed for 8 months. I had the money and I wanted a rest. I saw a job advertised I could do, but when I went for it, the wage was lower than I expected. The employer asked what I thought of the wage and I told him it was lower than I expected but was willing to take it to get back in employment. I got the job and two months into my probationary he gave me a rise up to what I expected. He told me he had got tired of ‘time wasters’ who took the money but didn’t deliver. I did for 9 years.
mmitch.