Being unemployed...
- Thread starter benjybars
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luka
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i hate working but put it this way. i had a job, 4 hours a night 6pm-10pm, where i was supposed to look after a car park with my stepbrother billy and his mate mohammed ali. we played football, smoked weed, drank beer and endless pg tips, read the tabloids, talked shit, went to the pub or the chip shop whenever we felt like it, sometimes we would go round someones house for the duration of the shift only returning to clock out, and got far far more money than you would get from the dole with none of the attendant stress, humiliation, early mornings etc... there are jobs like this available and surely its preferabble to the dole.
i did that job for 3 years!
i did that job for 3 years!
that sounds rad as shit luka. can you write me a letter of recommendation?
but really i would like to to be more employed than i am currently. lots of free time is great but just scraping by is getting on my nerves. english design firms holler! www.optikom.com
but really i would like to to be more employed than i am currently. lots of free time is great but just scraping by is getting on my nerves. english design firms holler! www.optikom.com
there isnt really any stress being on the dole. its more just about feeling a bit shit. but you go there, the person behind the desk asks you a few half hearted questions, you answer positively back, they dont really give a shit what you say, and then you sign on the paper, and go back home lol. thats basically it. all this stuff i read in the guardian about how jobseekers are grilled when they sign on each week is bizarre to me as ive not experienced any of that.
i just hate not having money, and having to carefully consider each time you go out, or just step out the house (transport prices in london are a joke). am doing a bit of work now, well bits here and there, but the money just isnt enough. for a brief period i was thinking of becoming a driving instructor.
the no of job applications i do has declined too cos i just cant be fucked at the moment but im going to get back on it today/tomorrow.
got some teachings from the dalai lama to read first.
i just hate not having money, and having to carefully consider each time you go out, or just step out the house (transport prices in london are a joke). am doing a bit of work now, well bits here and there, but the money just isnt enough. for a brief period i was thinking of becoming a driving instructor.
the no of job applications i do has declined too cos i just cant be fucked at the moment but im going to get back on it today/tomorrow.
got some teachings from the dalai lama to read first.
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benjybars
village elder.
well you know, unemployment and depression go quite well together i'd say...
nearly applied for a job today. based in Harlow though. allow it.
so bored.
being unemployed in the summer is alright.. just go to the park and play tennis and ride bikes.
at least it's given me the chance to watch series 2 of the wire for the 9th time
I never had any questions asked of me beyond 'how's the job hunt?', but when I mentioned it to my brother (who was also on JSA at them time) he said that for some people they do get questioned quite a bit. As a fresh graduate I think they just had this idea that I must be seriously looking, which I was, although I know there are quite a few who aren't, but then for others they just take a less sympathetic view for whatever reason.
I probably didn't use my time unemployed as well as I could have done, but I think that's partly because I could always feel the need to job hunt hanging over me. If you're disciplined though that's not really an issue - you just do your job hunting for the day and then know you're free to do other stuff.
mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
Think of unemployment as a political choice.
Think of it as freedom to not have to bunk off school.
Think of it as a way of learning self discipline.
Think of how many people you hated telling you what to do, each morning when you wake up.
Think of being in prison.
Think how blessed you are to be able to use internet pornography.
Think of what you would really like to learn if you had the time.
Use it, cos you ain't gonna get another chance til you get your pension.
If you live that long, or if you get one.
Think of it as freedom to not have to bunk off school.
Think of it as a way of learning self discipline.
Think of how many people you hated telling you what to do, each morning when you wake up.
Think of being in prison.
Think how blessed you are to be able to use internet pornography.
Think of what you would really like to learn if you had the time.
Use it, cos you ain't gonna get another chance til you get your pension.
If you live that long, or if you get one.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
excellent points.
i guess the shitta is, as someone said very early in the thread, that the mind doesn't let you relax to enjoy it enough, whereas you really should be!
i guess the shitta is, as someone said very early in the thread, that the mind doesn't let you relax to enjoy it enough, whereas you really should be!
I've pm'd you
benjybars
village elder.
oi zhao, this is a thread for me to moan about my unmeployment, not for you to get loads of well paid, really interesting work!
sod off..
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
What kind of work you looking for? (if you haven't already said)
mixed_biscuits
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Unemployment may allow one to profit from cut prices on self-improvement courses: flower arranging, brick-laying, beginner's Polish etc.
mistersloane
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My post earlier sounds really patronising, sorry, I was so drunk I was just amazed at being able to write in sentences.
Generally it's money worries that always do me in with being unemployed or on low wages. It's horrid so sorry if I sounded patronising.
Do they still do that thing where if you've got a part-time job that pays low wages you can get your housing benefit paid?
Generally it's money worries that always do me in with being unemployed or on low wages. It's horrid so sorry if I sounded patronising.
Do they still do that thing where if you've got a part-time job that pays low wages you can get your housing benefit paid?
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I got housing benefit while working part-time. They made it bloody difficult though, as I was studying part-time as well when I first applied and they took fucking ages to satisfy themselves that this was indeed the case.
You've got to be incredibly persistent, but if you're genuinely eligible you will eventually get some.
You've got to be incredibly persistent, but if you're genuinely eligible you will eventually get some.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Do you think your shamanic mongface prolonged the process?
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
It was probably the combination of pity and terror thereby induced that made them finally crack and cough up the moolah.
And if you are self employed as well. You have to show accounts every six months or so.
benjybars
village elder.
hmm.. dunno really. that's the problem
did my degree in linguistics/spanish and my MA in sociolinguistics.. didn't really enjoy my MA that much tho.. apart from my dissertation where i looked at language policy and the connection (or otherwise) between english language and national identity.
i suppose a job that involved research at some level would be what i'm after... or writing. i quite like writing.
current situation not helped by the fact my friend is over from chile and i'm educating him on the wire.. we're halfway through series 3. started on monday.