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Phew, it's been a busy few weeks for me so I haven't had time to post anything.
 
Well, I almost lost my job.  I'm a web developer by trade and spend many fruitful hours attempting to translate what the clients say they want into what they actually need (those of you in the business... you know, yep, you know.)
 
It seems that we will now be suffering the same type of power blackouts in the rest of the UK that have plagued London, those have been blamed on an oil leak and poor planning.  My boss has already made a number of redundancies stating that if the blackouts continue, fuel is too expensive to run the backup generators to keep the company running and he has to cut costs someplace.  Understandably this has made everyone VERY nervous.
 
To keep the wolves from my door and avoid homelessness I've taken on a number of part time jobs, cooking and cleaning etc, my favourite is the Rickshaw running.

 

As fuel prices skyrocket, these rickshaws are slowly but surely replacing the black cab taxi services in Edinburgh, UK.  It is very exhausting but fun work.

My shift starts at 6pm and ends at 11pm and I basically ferry people all over Edinburgh city centre.  I get to talk to an amazing cross section of society, some who are very aware of the oil crisis and the implications, to those who seem to be in denial and assume the government will save us.  I have to bite my tongue when talking to the latter (need the tips) knowing that in a few weeks those people will be in serious trouble if they continue that mindset.
 
Is anyone else worried about their jobs, and what are you doing (if anything) to supplement your income during this crisis?
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Posted on May. 6th, 2007 at 01:17 pm | | Leave a comment | 2 comments | Add to Memories | Share

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[info]lucy1965

Several of the senior midwives have speculated that we may be going back to the days of being paid in food or labor for attending deliveries.
Posted on May. 6th, 2007 11:19 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]megawatt_seller

That explains it. You don't know what sort of impact a local fault in London on that magnitude has on the electricity supply for the rest of the country. Think of it as a balancing act between demand and supply - when London has a power cut, the national level of demand drops something like 10%, that affects the frequency on the system (think AC is run at 50 Hertz? When London trips off, try nearer 51), that puts every industrial unit that relies on AC being within frequency tolerance into risk and NGC have to start tripping off power stations up and down the country in order to get the balancing act back together again.

Glad I wasn't on shift that day. Oh, Jimmy Grid...
Posted on May. 7th, 2007 05:01 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply