In regards to doing well and making record profits, the company i worked for had boomed, we moved to a bigger building had great contracts out in China. Our order book had enough work on for us not to have another order in the next year things looked great. Then all of a sudden orders were being cancelled to the point where we lost HALF of the order book. Cut backs had to be made and i was one of them unfortunatly. All this happened to me in one week! I had no idea, we got told we was doing great not to worry then the week after i was out on my arse!

One of the things that played on my mind though was that year I had finished my apprenticeship and had a 8k payrise, first pay rise was 4k, but i wasn't happy with it i was doing the job of a full Project Engineer and i argued that i deserved it. I got the pay rise. But what i thought is would i still have my job if i didn't ask for it? Yes i would have been the lowest paid Engineer but would they more likely get rid of someone earning more than me doing the same job?? Who knows hey!