I'm back!
To be honest, i've not really applied for any jobs recently, because there isn't any. Now, to every true blood Daily Mail reader this sounds like i'm a very nasty dole scrounger, but i want to tell you i'm not. I'm a human being too and this is my story of why and how i'm still on the dole:
I'm in my late 20's, i left school to go to college because i was promised it was the best thing since sliced bread and it wasn't, i should have done a apprencticeship because i'm not academically minded, but i'm not stupid either. I then got on the manual low wage jobs conveyor belt because when i left college i had no money and no real skills due to poor schooling and toilet paper BTEC qualifications and had to support myself somehow. This was in the beginning of the economic boom times in the mid 90's and i was able, at one point to pull in a £14k a year job, good money for a unskilled blue collar worker at the time. Now it's all virtually gone. I sold my house to move to a area where i thought would be better prospects, and i lost my job during whilst looking for another house to buy, so i had to rent and find a job where i can at least have a reasonable standard of living either financially or emotionally. This hasn't happened and it was nearly a year ago since i had a job. I'm soon having to move into a bedsit, paid for by housing benefit. I am on the bottom of the pile now, after once owning my own place and a three year old car, i now rent and drive a banger, which i can't always afford to use. A chunk of this is my own fault, and i readily admit that. But don't look down on me. I will climb back to the top of the pile, and i will get to the top again, be it in one, two or three years.
Don't look down on me because i'm on the dole. Don't post your bile on websites saying that people are like me are dole scum and ought to do part-time bar work or whatever. What sort of job is that?, how could anyone live on part-time wages?. If you're on the dole, then you survive, that is all. I am lucky to have what little i have now and i count my blessings for it.
I don't apply for shit jobs because there is no point in applying for very short term work or part time work under 30 hours a week, because i wouldn't be surviving, i'd be drowning in poverty, and once the temp work is over then it's back to the dole queue, and claiming benefits again, and to be frank, i'd rather get one good job, with proper full time hours, even if it's minimum wage, rather than the dribs and drabs some people want us to do because "it's a job" or you think i'm driving your NI contributions up, well i paid into that system too and i'm using what is due to me in a time of crisis.
It must be great to work in Finance in Kent and look down your nose from the comfort of your new build three bed semi, but not everyone's that lucky. We can't all do very well for ourselves thank you, and it's not about survival of the fittest. If you believe that then you are really binkered. It's about being human, luck, chance, where you live and skill and it's a lottery with few real winners.
Rant Over...
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The problem in the UK, as I see it, is that that much of society sees the victim as somehow responsible for their own misfortunes, as if somehow one's misfortunes can always be controlled. A few can, but the universe is random, unfair and strikes regardless of fairness or deserving cases. I agree that much of what happens is luck and chance and being in the right place at the right time - or the other way round. Those that look down and sneer do not know how lucky they are. I wonder how they would fare if it all went wrong?
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