Mr Hanson says he is getting by with the support of his family

He lives with his wife Melanie, 48, and 16-year-old son Joseph in Selly Oak - he also has a 22-year-old daughter, Kimberly, who lives in Portsmouth.

Last night was rough. Everything was just going through my head like how am I going to manage, and trying to explain to my son how drastically things are going to change because I'm not going to be earning the wages I was at Rover.

I didn't sleep for half the night, I got up and had a cup of coffee at half three this morning.

I'm going to sit down and try writing my CV today and I've been going through my redundancy advice from the Job Centre but I'm having to read it three or four times before it sinks in.

It does mean I get quality time with my son

I haven't phoned any of the helplines yet as my letter from the administrators says I have to phone up the Job Centre on Wednesday to fix an appointment.

I have a form from Homebase and I need to fill it in and supply a CV. Never having done one before it's going to take some time.

I read out to my daughter's boyfriend what I thought should go down and he went through what to do step by step and it was four times as long as what I had written down - all the bits and pieces of the job.

I phoned a chap I used to work with yesterday and his wife is pretty good with things like filling in CVs so I'm going to phone her later if I need any help, and my daughter's also offered to help.

Insulting suggestion

My son's got an introduction meeting at Bournville College today and I'm going down there with him. I'd have been working normally so it does mean I get quality time with my son. I'm also going to call into the personnel department to see if there are any opportunities.

The uncertainty of the last week has been agony Click here for Mr Hanson's first excerpt

My friends have been phoning up and saying 'how stupid after how long you've been working, why don't you live off the system for a bit?' but I find that insulting, I'm a working man.

Normally we would sit and watch the telly on a Tuesday evening but I will be filling in forms and scouring the papers for jobs.

My family are strong anyway but they have been very supportive.

I'm just plodding on at the moment trying to be positive. Yesterday I was very negative but today I am trying to be more positive, I'm getting there.

BBC News will be following Mr Hanson's progress all this week.