Jobcentres send you 90 miles for job?

bestpud

NASA wrote: »

What a load of crap.

I've been travelling out of my 'area' since I was 16. For the first few years I was doing it and had absolutely nothing to spend on myself. What 'profit' I did come out was taken by my mother for household costs.

The travel is tedious, and sometimes helps drive me to thoughts of suicide, but if I have to do it so should everyone else.

But you had a bed and food etc. Would you do the same if you didn't have money to spend on yourself OR pay your bills?

Living at home is a different kettle of fish entirely!

Marisco

robus wrote: »

I know people that work in Manchester. They stay in a cheap B&B for 5 nights, travelling 320 miles up on a Sunday afternoon, and coming back home after work on Friday night arriving at well past midnight!

How the hell is someone with a couple of kids supposed to do that?? Yes, fine if it's the husband with a wife at home looking after the kids, or vice versa, but it's not realistic for most people is it?? And I presume they are not on NMW then?

ETA, Why don't they just live in Manchester and save all the travelling?

bestpud

robus wrote: »

I don't honestly know what the problem is with this. Many people travel far more than that every day to a job. It is not unusual to pay out 1/4 of your wage in travelling costs.

I travelled by car to Greenwich, London (72 miles each way) for 7 years. Travelling time worked out on average of 5/12 hrs every day + working for 9 hours!!

Then I moved closer to home and travelled 49 miles each way for the last 6 years. Travelling time for that was about 3 hours in total a day.

I feel sorry for some people who think that they should only have to work just round the corner.

I know people that work in Manchester. They stay in a cheap B&B for 5
nights, travelling 320 miles up on a Sunday afternoon, and coming back home after work on Friday night arriving at well past midnight!

You have to put yourself about if you want a job!!

And if you just look at the cost V wage scenario, I would have been better off working at Sainsburys round the corner stacking shelves for 30 hours a week and expecting the government to top up my income with Tax Credits instead of following my career, working hard and not being able to claim Tax Credits.

What is more important, money in your pocket for little effort or try to make something of yourself for less overall money.

90 mins travel is too far my backside!!!

Soo, 25% of income on travelling...

And if rent and bills etc makes up 80% of your income...?

bestpud

Marisco wrote: »

How the hell is someone with a couple of kids supposed to do that?? Yes, fine if it's the husband with a wife at home looking after the kids, or vice versa, but not it's realistic for most people is it?? And I presume they are not on NMW then?

Of course they aren't on minimum wage, but that won't stop people making useless comparisons.

Oldernotwiser

It always surprises me how people who live in areas with high unemployment are far less prepared to travel for a job than those who live in areas with much lower unemployment. I was stunned when I did my training in Manchester to find that there were many young people who wouldn't consider taking a job unless it was near enough that they could go home for lunch!

Oldernotwiser

bestpud wrote: »

And if rent and bills etc makes up 80% of your income...?

There are precious few people for whom this is true though.

Marisco

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

It always surprises me how people who live in areas with high unemployment are far less prepared to travel for a job than those who live in areas with much lower unemployment. I was stunned when I did my training in Manchester to find that there were many young people who wouldn't consider taking a job unless it was near enough that they could go home for lunch!

Now that is equally as daft as expecting people to go miles and miles away! There is a happy medium. If people are going to commute long distances, then it has to be worthwhile to do so. I really cannot see the point in spending a lot on travelling, if all you have is a part time NMW job, and you are going to be worse off at the end of it.

bestpud

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

There are precious few people for whom this is true though.

No but there is quite a few who would be paying more than 25% of their income on transport!

DCFC79

I was told i had to look for work up to an hours travelling time or driving time in my case.

GotToChange

In my area, 90 minutes may not actually get you very far........
Although I live in an area described as rural, distance to closest city is about 15 miles. I can take a shortcut "across" a golf course (not literally) to get to the A57 - main route to M1 - and meet a traffic jam tailing back the three miles to the junction. And there I may sit, moving at snail's pace, for up to two hours...
At the other end of the journey, an equally long tailback to leave the M1 into the city.
The time is not a reliable indicator of distance travelled.
(Just sayin')