My DP is self employed (building industry) and normally has work racked up for months. He finished a job 2 weeks ago and has another small one starting in 2 weeks but nothing after that.
My work is flat out but I am due in 7 weeks and was hoping to take a month or 6 weeks off, but it looks like that may not happen. Fortunatly I work from home.
We are moving into our brand new house this weekend and while we have kept our mortgage right down by doing most of the work ourselves, there are a heap of jobs that are needed to be done by outside people (shifting dirt, fencing, driveway ect) that we just wont be able to do on one wage.
So while it is not the end of the world, we are certainly going to have to be very careful for the next while.
Heaps of others in the building trade are in the same boat.