Will my benefits get stopped?

orangeboy1988

Delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete.

Gordon_Hose

Why don't you get motivated and put together a list of what careers you are interested in.

TBH if you don't have a good reason to cancel the appt, you'll probably get sanctioned. Being demotivated isn't really an excuse.

speedbird1973

Basically you're too lazy to get a job.

So long as you loose your benefits then I don't see a problem.

Gordon_Hose

speedbird1973 wrote: »

Basically you're too lazy to get a job.

So long as you loose your benefits then I don't see a problem.

Exactly!

It doesn't take a lot of effort to sit down and think about some careers you *might* be interested in. Think about hobbies and interests, then any careers that may involve them.

If you like going to the gym - personal trainer.
If you like tinkering with your car - mechanic.
If you like drawing - architect/draftsman.
If you like animals - vet.

Etc etc etc etc

It's not hard. You're just admitting defeat before you've even tried.

SarEl

I have to admit that I don't know whether you will get sanctioned or not (but would lay bets on you will be), and I know that it is dispiriting being out of work... but what on earth do you expect anyone to do for you if you have no ideas and no aspiration / inspiration of your own?

You may not have a clue what you want to do, be unmotivated, and not like anything - but you seem to be doing ok at claiming benfits paid for by people who don't necessarily find what they do interesting or motivating, but have this strange notion that they should pay their own bills and not expect taxpayers to do it.

12bdebt3

The most annoying thing is that the OP could literally aspire to anything. They are in a position where they can make any choice they want and get the help they need to follow it up. The tax payers are financially providing this privilege and it is being wasted, great.

If you miss an appointment for an interview they normally cancel your next benefit payment. It is possible you may receive your payments after if you give them a good reason why you didn't go.

One good reason why they should pay you benefits?

Gordon_Hose

Claiming benefits because you're "unmotivated" is a bigger waste of tax payers money.

morganedge

I have some sympathy, personally.
Its not nice not having a clue what to do with your working life.
I've always been jealous of school friends who just seemed to know what they wanted to be 'when they grew up' and have clearly defined goals and knew to path to accomplish them goals.
Nothing 'work wise' has aver remotely interested me and as a result I've spent years working in dreadful jobs that made me dread getting out of bed each day. Its not much of a life.
I wish I knew what I wanted to do, too.
Fact is, im not very good at anything, lol. Im not very clever.
My only aspirations 'work wise' are completely unrealistic and I accept that - for example, I play a few instruments, but I know i'm not gonna become a famous musician!

What was the excuse that you actually used when you cancelled?
You would be better of making up a lie as to why you cant attend. Illness or something.
Telling the truth is often a good way to get sanctioned!

Gordon_Hose

But you could have gone and explained the situation you're in, they could have helped you figure some stuff out, seeing as you can't do it off your own back.

Gordon_Hose

orangeboy1988 wrote: »

What about people who are on incapacity benefit due to alcoholism? Depression? Stress? I assume you hold the same opinion of these?

I WANT to work, I HATE being unemployed, it has been the worst experience of my life and I have been through a lot. You feel the worst of the worst. You feel like scum. When you have this in your head day and night, you do feel unmotivated.

Irrelevant. They have an illness, you're just unmotivated.

milliemonster

Maybe instead of looking at career aspirations at the moment, instead focus on your own self confidence, improving your prospects and self worth and widening your options for the future, your motivation at the moment should be to get back into work to lift yourself from the unemployed back into the employed rather than looking at all the jobs that are advertised and thinking 'well I don't want to do that'

your priority at the moment should be to get back into work, so you are earning, contributing to society and from then on, looking at where this could lead you to in the future. Many of us started our working lives with dreams of the kind of career path we wanted to take but have ended up down a completely different road due to other opportunities that have come our way. You can't just get a career just like that, you have to start with baby steps and finding out what you excel in along the way, which aspects of your job you like and hate and how this can then lead you in a new direction.

So lift yourself out of this demotivated hole you are in, no one is going to come knocking on your door offering you the career of your dreams that you haven't thought of yet. start by just getting a job and then look forward from there