To ask how Brexit will BENEFIT you/your job?

[ReasonablyIntelligent]

Off the back of the other thread, I wanted to see if anyone could share how Brexit will tangibly benefit them?

I'm shocked by how many people will be/have been so acutely affected but Leave is very strong, very popular so there must be a flip side?

I'll mention I voted Remain and would do so again, but I'm NOT after a debate/bun fight about it. Just simply flipping the question to try and understand further.

t won't. I work in academia.

Same. Loss of lots of research funding. Loss of colleagues. Huge decrease in numbers of EU applicants this year so jobs are on the line too.

Some research is eu funded but given that the UK are net contributors, we are just getting back the money we have already given to the EU. Once we don't pay this money to the EU there is no reason why our taxes cannot continue to give this finding directly to universities, but we have more control over the amount and the priorities for the type of research that should be funded.

The UK gets approximately 20% of all EU research funding (at least, they did - this has probably dropped massively as other EU partners are now wary of working with UK partners). This is massively more than we put into the pot for the common funding area for research. I don't believe for a single second that the UK government will make anything like similar funding available after Brexit. The UK are also massively over-represented amongst reviewers and panel members, giving us significant influence over how EU research money is spent.

The EU fund much bigger projects than UK funding councils do and allow us to work with collaborators all over Europe rather than restricting us to only working within one country. Withdrawing from the common funding area for research will be a disaster for UK research.

It won't. The tariffs alone on crashing out without a deal will cost us several million pounds. I dont think many businesses will do well if we crash out, only the few that source its raw materials in the UK and sell overseas due to the weak pound. Spending in the UK will fall due to inflation caused by imported goods being more expensive

I run a catering business that specialises in business catering. I've done very well out of catering for panicked, all day meetings.
Husband works in trading, doing extremely well out of the unstable market.
It won't last though, when the economy goes to shit post Brexit, so we're making the most of it!

I've just gone back into the NHS and quite honestly have no idea how it will be affected by Brexit. I find it hard to believe we will get any extra money after Brexit.
Just heard on the 10 o clock news the government has no plan to improve services at the moment.
Business as usual then.

DH may actually benefit, because many of his clients are outside the UK and they will be more willing to spend on his business's services when the pound is weak. So the nosediving UK£ after Brexit may lead to more business.

We both voted Remain. Even if we do turn out to be in the tiny minority who benefit, this is massively outweighed by the disadvantages of living in a crippled, insular country with diminished prospects for our DC in the future. And that's just on a selfish, personal level. When you consider the impact Brexit will have on the population as a whole, voting Leave would have been unthinkable for us on ethical grounds.

I went back to the NHS because private podiatry has taken a massive hit as people are pulling in their belts and not spending money. I haven't worked more than half a day in months. At least the NHS is a steady wage with a pension.

It will affect some jobs but not most. Some jobs will be lost, others gained.
Brexit is not about money or the economy, though remainers are keen to make (baseless) gloomy forecasts about those things.
It is about sovereignty, making sure we govern our own country instead of giving that power to unelected foreigners in Brussels.
Many remainers only seem selfishly concerned with the impact Brexit might have on them personally and aren't willing to understand leavers are thinking about the future of the nation as a whole.

I voted remain. Brexit is liable to raise our families living costs and leave both myself and my DH at risk of loosing our jobs in the short term.
It will affect our families travel possibilities and it will likely have a negative effect on my children’s lives and future job opportunities.

Brexit is not about money

I work in a tourist attraction and it’s never been busier. Low pound bringing everyone from overseas.

I doubt I’ll loose my job but my firm are pretty tight so doubt I’d get more money.

Well I work in stroke rehab so I reckon i’ll be busier than usual. A shortage of medicine will lead to a higher level of uncontrolled diabetes, an increase in people’s blood pressure and cholesterol and an increased chance of having an irregular heart beat. All of those things will mean people also have an increased chance of stroke. So at least I get to keep my job. Then again I work for the nhs so I’m not convinced i’ll have much resources to treat people, it’s already pretty dire.

@LarryTheLurker, can you explain what will be able to do outside the EU that we couldn't do in the EU?

“Brexit is not about money or the economy, though remainers are keen to make (baseless) gloomy forecasts about those things.“

Factually false. Government (not “Remainers”) funded studies show the economy will take a massive hit from any Brexit. The economic aspect of leaving the worlds most successful trade block is very, very real. Please stop making stuff up.

I work part-time in a supporting role in the performing arts. My job will be ok (I'm a small cog) and the company I work for will be ok for the next 15 years until I retire. But leave is going to be fucking abysmal for the arts and within a generation itl'll be broken beyond repair. Heart-breaking, especially for youngsters hoping to go into this area.

A friend of mine works in HR advising business on redundancy, business is booming for him.

Larry: you seem to parrot what you've been reading in the Daily Mail. Give us some examples please!

And how ridiculous to say Remainers are only worried about themselves -far from it.

I work in the arts - touring music groups around the world. We have no idea what the impact will be on our business, but likely to be drastic, as most groups will stop using a UK based company to do the work, due to the additional red tape (at best) tax issues and inability to bring instruments in/out of the UK easily, plus the plummeting value of sterling (at worst).

We're a small company; we will probably go under in less than a year, as the DCMS and the Musicians Union do not seem to be able to help or advise and our business books 2-3 years ahead, so no-one wants to be involved until they understand how Brexit will impact on arrangements and budgets.

Many UK orchestras rely on foreign touring for vital income, and may also fold- the only positive is that they've become cheaper in the European market as the pound plummets.

Many in our industry think that the arts will be massively affected, but no-one has any answers as to how we can plan for the future,

LarryTheLurker will have such fun,
playing kippers all day long!!!

Dh is paid in dollars as his clients are in the US, but we live in the UK, so every nosedive of the pound is worth thousands to us.

Happy days? No. Dh is an EU national so he takes Brexit very personally. I’d cheerfully exchange all the extra cash for a cancellation of Brexit, and for Dh to not have to fill in a frankly insulting application form to stay in the country in which he has lived for decades, and to which he has paid a fuck tonne of cash in tax over the last x number of years.

Oh and my friend in HR would prefer Remain for the sake of his children's future.

It will have no benefits for me, it could be a disaster. I work in pharmaceutical marketing and spend a lot of time in Brussels. I studied European languages. My 20 year career could implode.

It gave DH the push to take a role overseas, he might not have done this without Brexit.
My career is on pause while we are here though.

Probably some overtime in it (police)

Not worth it

@Frequency your posts on here reminded me of this which i spotted last night..

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