Written by Redundancy is normally a severe blow and represents a premature conclusion to your job. It can damage your confidence and often with a sizeable income shortfall which you will need to replace as soon as you can. Depending on your line of work there will probably be other openings you could apply for but if you are leaving an industry which is shrinking then you could be looking at a long hard struggle to get back into a job and start getting a salary again. Hopefully your employer has found it possible to pay you under some form of redundancy package and this financial buffer will help you through the initial few weeks but no redundancy pot will last for ever, so a broad thinking strategy for getting income flowing again may be called for.
This is when finding Online Jobs or founding a work from home enterprise can come into its’ own. The idea of setting up a business in the usual way, or buying a franchise, might be too off putting. However it may be possible to set up a Work From Home enterprise doing the kind of tasks you have done formerly. Think about why you have been made redundant in the first place. It is normally because your role is no longer there. But it may be the case, rather than your role disappearing all together, it may just be that there was insufficient work to justify your full time position, but there is still some work you could usefully carry out.
So the first thing to do is to contact your previous employer to offer your services on a part time self employed basis. Offer to undertake this work from home as and when there‘s work to be done. This is likely to be an attractive proposition because the former employer is familiar with you and how well you work and does not have to commit to providing you with a full time job, or provide space for you in the office. Failing that, consider your previous employers competitors. It may be that some of them have occasional use for your skills and could be attracted by the idea of you being employed as an ad hoc sub contractor. Put together sufficient number of such small informal arrangements and suddenly you have a viable, full time work from home venture.
