Redundancy Was the Pivotal Push I Needed
Thoughts from a time of change
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5 min readMay 3, 2024
£30,000 didn’t seem much of a send-off given that they no longer wanted me, and I’d been at the advertising agency for over seven years. I’d even had to haggle to reach that neatly rounded redundancy sum, the maximum payable to a UK citizen before tax is due. The rule is the same today; it hasn’t moved a penny.
