To ask, what is your job, what is your Brexit plan?

[FreakOfNature]

In the interests of trying to figure out what may or may not happen come next April I thought it would be a good idea to see what all the different sectors currently have planned for Brexit.

To start, I'm a sahm, dh professional role in the forces (think vet, dentist, dr etc). So far he's heard nothing official from the powers that be about how, in a work capacity, he should prepare for Brexit. Typical 'keep calm and carry on' approach

Work in a University - Our VC has posted numerous blog articles stating how badly Brexit will affect our sector. Funding cuts, Research grant cuts, student numbers down. Jobs will be lost over this.

A few Brexit voting colleagues are not happy about his very vocal pro remain stance, but unfortunately they will have to put up with it as they are the turkeys that have voted for Christmas.

I'm an accountant, work for a manufacturing company. Ultimately we're expecting a lot of duty costs and delays through customs but until there's a final deal / no deal there's not a lot we can do to prepare.

I work in a creative industry.
I’ve got my Irish citizenship sorted and have told my employer that I’d like to be transferred abroad, so I’ll probably be leaving sometime in the next year or two. In the past my original plan was just to go for a few years with the intention of coming back to the U.K. as my home base, but now I’m looking to make a more permanent home elsewhere. Ideally I’d like Ireland or Germany but I’ll have to see where I’m sent.

We live in Europe- moved here a couple of years ago, did a house up, have a small business. We are not rich, and were hoping to stay here and live off our pensions.

Brexit will be a personal disaster for us. I doubt we earn enough to pass the financial threashhold to stay here, if we have to sell up and leave I have no idea what we will do. Houses will fall in value as Brits have to leave no doubt.

DH is getting too old to go back to his former physical work and I am too long out of my job to just go back to it.

I can see us back in the UK, homeless and penny less as we try to sell up. We may even have to have our dog pts if the pet passports are done away with - ddog wouldn't cope with quarantine.

So thank you leavers, I hope you choke on your blue passports.

I’m retired due to disability, dh is one of about 20 specialists in excise and duty in the uk working for one of the biggest transport warehousing freight forwarders in the world

He’s barely sleeping with anxiety about brexit workload

the company so far I kid you not hasn’t done any strategic planning and don’t see it as a major issue

Some of the customers (brewers) are increasing their bonded warehouse capacities but that’s about all so far and they often do this anyway pre Christmas

Even the associations he works with seem quite chilled about it

Personally I have a 2-4 month preppers plan ready to tide us over the initial transition period but that’s mainly because we have a specialist diet and our foods will be the least priority in shops

My job was a time traveller, I came from the future originally back to this spot 4 years ago (in relative time) to create a test time line where i influence things to get the worst brexit outcome.

After Brexit I was planning to go back to my future (If i used "the" instead of "MY" there caring Disney overlord lawyers would send their time cops to arrest me for using their trademark in a doomed timeline without express written permission).

I work in town planning and I expect to spend at least part of 2019 saying "I told you so" to all the people who wrongly believe that the housing crisis is all down to immigration from the EU. I'm not party to any plans that have been made within my particular area of local government, but quite honestly I don't think anyone has a clue how it will affect us.

Was chatting to my neighbor this morning. She is Irish and works in London. She will be moving back here in a few months with 300 jobs because her finance company have moved their European office to Fiblin. She is happy and so are a lot of Non British people who are relocating here to work.

We don't even live in the UK and it may well effect DH's job. He's a british scientist and works on some high security, cross EU research projects. He doesn't know if he'll be able to continue once he's a non EU scientist.

Filbin- I mean Dublin

Work in the charities sector (arts specifically) in partnerships and fundraising.

Brexit less a worry than the related economic crash I can see looming. I’m quite good at what I do, so should be okay for a while, but considering options in case.

I work for a small, local organisation and I’m hoping we’ll be fine, but if the economy goes down the pan let’s be honest, we’re all fucked.

I run a tourist business in France. We have dual nationality so we will be fine, but we were slightly worried about how many British clients we would get post Brexit.

We have switched to a largely French based clientelle, and for next year at least the summer months are almost fully booked with British Clients. Something we were not expecting.

PM here. The dream in my heart is to become a professional dancer.

Academic. Don’t think my dept will be affected as I’ve never known any foreign national/EU students. I’ve increased my hours when the opportunity came up recently and part of the thought process was trying to protect myself if the economy tanks.

nicely - maybe you’ll get your wish post brexit

I work in a research dept in a large NHS hospital. Personally my job is pretty safe as I am very experienced. Having been to a couple of conferences since the vote leave pharma and academics are very concerned about the UK’s future in medical research post Brexit. Also our ability to negotiate for price and availability of drugs coming to market is likely to be harmed by Brexit. We will be in the queue behind bigger markets like the EU.

Certain parts of academia and the arts need to realise that the vast majority of the country doesn't give a fuck about how many incomprehensible reports or expensive murals are produced in the country. Academics who are unable to clearly teach in English or unwilling to teach more than a handful of hours a month and whose research work is of low value to actually benefitting society (basically anything outside of STEM) need to accept that their jobs were never sustainable. Similarly classical musicians need to realise that the majority of working class people who couldn't afford to pay for a ticket to see them don't care that the number of classical performances will substantially decrease.

Wow user, that’s a depressing outlook.

I for one am happy to live in a diverse society which is rich in the arts. Everything is important and enriches society, not just STEM.

I'm a buyer in fashion retail. I'm about to have a baby, but as you've all no doubt seen the high street is going down the toilet and will do so even more if people panic and stop spending/cannot spend. Our goods are also made in Europe and paid for in euro so will be interested to see what the exchange rate will be/how importing goes.

By the time I'm due back to work we'll be 8 months into the mess so will just have to see!

user a joy as ever.

It's wonderful to know that you deeply care about the contribution of arts to people's lives. There are a range of arts in this country and regional theatre for instance costs less than going to the pub, but hey why give a fuck about anything that is outside of your angry bubble and that might contribute to society as a whole.
(And it's likely it's the regional stuff that will go).
Btw that arts stuff contributes to tourism, the food and drinks industry etc etc.

I'm supposed to project next year's revenues with my team and would love Bojo and co to compensate against any shortcomings in the tiny chance things don't go spectacularly well from April onwards.

whose research work is of low value to actually benefitting society (basically anything outside of STEM)

Do you actually believe this?

We left UK for a few years, partly to increase savings and partly to avoid Brexit mess until it has shaken down a bit. I am not working currently and may not while we are away. We may or may not return in the next few years but I didn't want my taxes going towards Brexit.