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sitting at home doing nothing???
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It's called 'looking for a job'! I do it every day of the week for at least 5 hours a day and the laptop doesn't go off till 2am and back on again at 9am. Looking for a job is a full time job in itself and filling in application forms can take 1-2hours at a time then there is the 20 sites I look at on a daily basis which update every hour or more so. There is the time I spend searching online for companies in a certain industry and then looking on their webistes, setting up job searching accounts on their sites etc.
I know if you have a full time job you will not have time at all to do half of what I do!
Oh yes and as for what am I enjoying.........erm nothing as its no fun at all if you didn't know being out of work and not having a life anymore.
Well done to you for putting so much into finding a job,many don't do half the time you do
Unfortunately,like with anything else,those who do not do much at all apart from hang around with their mates,sit on their backsides watching tv or gracing the local day in day out,can give people the opinion that all or most are the same.
But I don't think it's just a question of looking for work when people ask what you do.
I fully agree on the no fun at all being out of work,it does change life completely.It can be good after a certain point and for a while for some.If women are birds and freedom is flight are trapped women Dodos?0 -
So, getting back to the original thread...are you annoyed about people who seem to think that all unemployed people are doing nothing all day? If, like me, you are said person...inbetween job searches, do you feel that it is possible to have a productive day? If you dont, why? Surely a 24hr day can consist off more than looking for work?0
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Like I have said my days are just job searching (even on Xmas day!) and I have no real life anymore so can not do anything else other than job searching as your life stops (well mine has) since losing my job. Can't meet up with mates after work for food and a few drinks as I have no £, can't go anywhere in the day as no £ and should really be looking for work. The only productive days I have are when I really think I have applied for something promising.So, getting back to the original thread...are you annoyed about people who seem to think that all unemployed people are doing nothing all day? If, like me, you are said person...inbetween job searches, do you feel that it is possible to have a productive day? If you dont, why? Surely a 24hr day can consist off more than looking for work?0 -
Like I have said my days are just job searching (even on Xmas day!) and I have no real life anymore so can not do anything else other than job searching as your life stops (well mine has) since losing my job. Can't meet up with mates after work for food and a few drinks as I have no £, can't go anywhere in the day as no £ and should really be looking for work. The only productive days I have are when I really think I have applied for something promising.
If anyone deserves a job..its you, from what I have read on your posts!
Unfortunately, my past is so very different from yours, hence, my chance of employment is pretty much zilch!! At the grand age of 47yrs, I decided to reinvent my life, hence going to college, as I have mentioned on previous threads. Granted, there may be no guarantees in my future as regarding employment, but I feel I have no option but to make a fresh start and hope that between doing counselling and social care course at college and also my care work experience with my gran, combined with voluntary work in working with people with learning disabilities, then maybe I will strike lucky! The care profession seems to value life experience, and doesnt hold so much prejudice over older job seekers!
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May be not, but the reality is with not driving I am stuck to my nearest town 10 miles away,
i agree with you as i am looking for full time work. my internet connection is fast and i scroll past the jobs that have been on there for a roll on job ad for the last six months etc, and in my area there are few left even then if i was limited to direct.g then i need to shave off 24 years as there are apprenticeship jobs taking up 50% of within 15 miles.
I am in a permanent ptime job and want ftime but i really feel for peps who struggle on with nothing. yes it's fab being out of work short term becuase you can catch up on the jobs you've been meaning to do but can't. And the long term lazy umeployed do my nut especially those who have just bought a 2011 car down the street etc and sit on their bum all day and expect itDon’t put it down - put it away!
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In response to stay at home parents and the unemployed watching daytime tv,
I work and also watch jeremy kyle,
I just work funny shift patterns, 7.00 am - 10.00am and then 1.30pm - 4.30 pm
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