Work Programme

LadyMissA

925dancer wrote: »

LadyMissA, why are you using the tube? It's a very expensive way to get round London when the busses are much much cheaper. Granted it will take you longer and you may have to change but it could save you a lot of money and make it more possible to go agencies.

Sometimes I would get the bus from Finchley to Oxford Street at the weekend because I preferred it to sitting on a hot tube in summer! So 7 miles on a bus is nothing if it makes it cheaper.

I live alone and am just about surviving on JSA, managing to get to interviews etc and even managing to put electric in my meter and eat! Amazing!

I'm even going to half to make a little over a fortnights money last for a month as I finally start a new job on monday and I have had to relocate to London to find employment (incidentally, it took me 2 weeks from posting my CV online and making applications to London roles to be offered a job and I don't have 17 years experience, also, only one agency ever asked to meet me, the other 4 happily registered me over the phone).

I would still have to get 4 busses to the City and back costing £5.20 which is about the same as a tube/train to Fenchurch Street.

Its not 7 miles to agencies its 7 to the provider, oh dear

As far as agencies go you are very lucky then, arent you.

BexInLondon

LadyMissA wrote: »

I would still have to get 4 busses to the City and back costing £5.20 which is about the same as a tube/train to Fenchurch Street.

Its not 7 miles to agencies its 7 to the provider, oh dear

As far as agencies go you are very lucky then, arent you.

115 bus will take you from East Ham to within walking distance of the city. It will cost you £2.60 return on an oyster. Why don't you post the rough location of the provider, maybe someone will know a cheaper route to get there.

I know being unemployed is really depressing but it does seem from this thread that your default answer is "no, because...". Being pessimistic is no crime but it seems like you've made up your mind that no-one can help you and you're stuck here! Ok, so maybe you can't get the help you want, which is interview fares... So get creative! What else would help? Sounds to me like you need some good friends who believe in you and encourage you!

LadyMissA

BexInLondon wrote: »

115 bus will take you from East Ham to within walking distance of the city. It will cost you £2.60 return on an oyster. Why don't you post the rough location of the provider, maybe someone will know a cheaper route to get there.

I know being unemployed is really depressing but it does seem from this thread that your default answer is "no, because...". Being pessimistic is no crime but it seems like you've made up your mind that no-one can help you and you're stuck here! Ok, so maybe you can't get the help you want, which is interview fares... So get creative! What else would help? Sounds to me like you need some good friends who believe in you and encourage you!

I am near East Ham not in East Ham and I know how to get to the provider on a bus thanks.

When you lose your job you lose your friends too aswell as the life you had

DCFC79

LadyMissA wrote: »

I am near East Ham not in East Ham and I know how to get to the provider on a bus thanks.

When you lose your job you lose your friends too aswell as the life you had

ive lost my job but ive not lost my friends, maybe your life changes well i can only speak for myself as everyone circumstances are different

LadyMissA

DCFC79 wrote: »

ive lost my job but ive not lost my friends, maybe your life changes well i can only speak for myself as everyone circumstances are different

I can't go out like I used to do after work or meet up with them hence not seeing most of them in a year

DCFC79

LadyMissA wrote: »

I can't go out like I used to do after work or meet up with them hence not seeing most of them in a year

ive not been out since i lost my job either, well i still go and see a film maybe once a week but ive not been out for meals like i used too, maybe have a dvd night and food. I do have it easier as i dont hae bills to pay except my phone as im still living at home. Even im finding it hard, demoralising, annoying, no sign of the light at the end of the tunnel.

palna

I could be fast track onto the work programe if i wanted to but my advisor, told me not to go on it.

first because i am getting interviews about 1 sometimes 2 a week, but should get more cos i apply to so many jobs.

and secondly he said there probaly put you in any old job and once you on the programee you cant leave it.

donnajunkie

palna wrote: »

and secondly he said there probaly put you in any old job and once you on the programee you cant leave it.

very true.

claire16c

palna wrote: »

I could be fast track onto the work programe if i wanted to but my advisor, told me not to go on it.

first because i am getting interviews about 1 sometimes 2 a week, but should get more cos i apply to so many jobs.

and secondly he said there probaly put you in any old job and once you on the programee you cant leave it.

but surely you could leave it if you found another job?

palna

claire16c wrote: »

but surely you could leave it if you found another job?

yes, just wonder why my advisor was against it, syaing things you cant back out, and plus you getting interviews anyway, pplus im doing admin course through college, 7 weks no idea why so long 3 days a week its admin.