Anyone been down the Job Centre?

PasturesNew

mvengemvenge wrote: »

Well, listen, from what I've known of you so far, you seem a grounded, knowledgeable, sensible person. Have you thought about some sort of advisory work, life skills, etc?

No. Bet that needs a degree and is over-subscribed as people think it's an easy touch job.

I think I'd make an excellent advisor. But maybe I am too black/white and "my way is the only and right way" type when it comes down to it. Also, I'd be worried I'd be sucked into over-helping, so become a victim of the manipulative.... I'm good at helping people with practical help, just that whole emotional side of me just doesn't exist. And I could be picked out by a charletan from 100 paces as they can smell their next victim... I suspect I'd get into scrapes/situations I didn't know how to get out of.

I don't know what Life Skills are though ... to be honest.

Whatever they are, they didn't have them in my day. What are they?

PasturesNew

See ... there aren't actually any jobs for anybody are there... unless you're an exact clone/exact match for something already.

Scarey.

PasturesNew

wigglebeena wrote: »

He created his sad little sock puppet identity just to make a report.

On the plus side, he's in Britain and making things!
Not many can say that now!

mewbie_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

LOL ... and thanked
Mate.


LOL ... again.
Are you a ginger?

Too much personal information for a public site I'm afraid.

On the cliquey thing I got 7 thank yous (so far) for calling the gas bloke a moron. Jesus - the fascism of in group behaviour. And I'm becoming one of the worst. To think I only started on here as a troll to do some winding up of bulls.

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

My problem is I've been laid off so many times I've often had to start at the bottom all the time. And any relevant/meaningful job I did was before the last mini-crash, then I was living somewhere where the job I could do simply did not exist at all (e.g. a ski instructor can't work if they live in the sahara).

So now here I am, fully able, competent, but most jobs I can do/want to do are most likely to say "You haven't done that for 2, 5, 10 years" or "You're over-qualified".

So, try to start at the bottom again? Again... ? Can you spend your life unfulfilled on the bottom because you were unlucky too often? I have been doing this for 30 years now, how long before I just give up ...?

I'll see how things go.

Keeps happening to me too...started at the bottom too many times to remember, start climbing up and then something comes along to !!!!!! it all up again!

I will have to start at the bottom next time too, most frustrating.

SingleSue

mvengemvenge wrote: »

Hmmm, I said this to someone the other day, not sure if you were there, but the local careers office will have a computer programme where you type in your skills/interests and it comes up with a range of jobs suited to you. Never seen it, but I've been informed it's quite good.

I went through that process a month or so ago when I completed my counselling course, it was part of the course to see if you were suitable for going onto doing the next level and pursuing it as your career, the course and the chat with the careers officer (she did have another title but we just called her the careers officer as we felt like we were back in school) was funded by the local council - and not just to benefit claimants, to everyone.

She told me to do my degree....but not in counselling.

clobber_2

I signed on for the first and only time in 2000. I went to the building I thought I was supposed to go to, waited in a queue for an hour or so, surrounded my unkempt smelly people who reeked of fags and stale beer. Being a nice middle class girlie I assumed that was what it was like, and spent my time inventing sympathetic backstories for my fellow claimants and trying very hard to be leftwing about it all.

Got to the front of the queue only to be told I was in the wrong place as I wasn't claiming incapacity benefit, and had to go next door to claim JSA or whatever it was called then. Went next door and it just had normal people who didn't smell bad.


Before the genuine incap claimants get offended, I know you're not all like that. But it has been govt policy for years to move long-term unemployed off JSA and onto incap benefit, which is why incapacity benefit claimants now have such a bad reputation.

PasturesNew

olly300 wrote: »

HAVE YOU TRIED?

Don't try you don't get.

No, but I've never lived near a hospital before ... and right now the vacancies they have going aren't the vacancies I am after. It'd be trying to get a job I was experienced/qualified at 20 years ago... so I'll stick with applying for jobs like I've been doing in the last 20 years first.

PasturesNew

SingleSue wrote: »

Keeps happening to me too...started at the bottom too many times to remember, start climbing up and then something comes along to !!!!!! it all up again!

I will have to start at the bottom next time too, most frustrating.

You at least know where you want to be. I don't even have a base or a clue on location.

geoffky

PasturesNew wrote: »

And there's the trouble.... what if you've no idea what you're interested in? Just lots of bits and pieces bobbing about through your mind idly occasionally?

I could shake you......get out there and do something...plan plan and plan...believe me if you want it you will get it..but it will not come to you..