Andy was made redundant from a medium-sized QS in September 2008. He says: "My company was working on about 11 commercial projects in the City of London and they all just disappeared. I got the bare minimum pay-off because the company had completely run out of money." Andy, who has a wife and two young children, was relatively lucky: he managed to get a job two months later. Unfortunately, the salary for the new job was about 20% less than he had been taking home for the previous four years. Then, just three weeks into the new job, as he was trying to adjust to 80% of what he had before, his new employer brought in a 10% pay cut. Unfortunately his wife, who also works in construction, was pregnant at the time; she was also made redundant and has remained unemployed.
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