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Nada666

bigboybrother wrote: »

All I will say is that if I was younger (63 and retired) and looking for a job, and someone offered me 40 hours a week at NMW say in Birmingham (180 miles away) I would take it.

There are plenty of cheap digs and having a job and still looking for a better one is much better than having no job at all.

Besides which you would be grossing approx £275 a week, less your digs money and a National Express return ticket for the weekend and be a lot better off than JSA!!!

I'd advise you not to bother applying for jobs that require elementary arithmetic.

Neelienew

Nada666 wrote: »

I'd advise you not to bother applying for jobs that require elementary arithmetic.

Bigboybrother aka Andy McTroll has no intention of applying for any jobs!

osdset

bigboybrother wrote: »

Many JSA claimants are hoping that a job turns up doing something that they would enjoy, paying £20 an hour for 35 hours a week and is close enough for them to roll out of bed in a morning and wander 10 minutes up the road.

I used to have a job like that, but consumed with envy about politicians that have so much more of a better deal, I jacked the job in and went on the dole.

I haven't looked back since, it's a fantastic life! I get to have at least three holidays in Thailand every year, and a week in Dubai. I managed to save enough to buy a five bedroom property in Chiswick, and have just taken delivery of a Land Rover Discovery.

Working is for mugs, just ask any politician.

[Deleted User]

bigboybrother wrote: »

Thanks, it just seems that some people are really too lazy to look outside their 5 mile radius!

Come again?

The furthest job interview so far has been just over 50 miles for me - and that was just one way!
took me to the back end of what I call East London
got one tomorrow - that is only 35 miles Colchester to Brentwood - so 70 miles rtn

Paying NMW, and with the employer stating they had wanted someone within 25 miles preferably originally, forget the up to 90 min travel JSA rubbish, it strikes me employers do give a s*** how far someone has to travel

I just have to treat the journeys as nice days out on the motorway in my old banger in desperate hope of job
well I've nothing else to do and beats staring at 4 walls I suppose, hope it changes your perception

bigboybrother

osdset wrote: »

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Working is for mugs, just ask any politician.

I know it is, why do you think I retired as soon as I could from the Civil Service at 60?

Our weekly income from all sources and benefits comes out at £649 a week and zero Council Tax to pay!!

As you say, it is a mugs game and took me 44 years to realise it.

bigboybrother

Deleted%20User wrote: »

Come again?

The furthest job interview so far has been just over 50 miles for me - and that was just one way!
took me to the back end of what I call East London

Err yes, I live in Tunbridge Wells and worked in Charlton, SE London. Did that for 6 years travelling by car. It wasn't the money that was important, it was the job itself that made it all worth while.

Would I do it again? Yes if I was younger and fitter than I am now. I enjoyed the years staying in digs 4 nights a week and going home on a Friday night to see my wife and kids.

Best of both worlds - 4 days as a bachelor and 3 as a dad & husband.

LunaLady

bigboybrother wrote: »

All I will say is that if I was younger (63 and retired)

bigboybrother wrote: »

Hello, we did in 1968 just for 2 weeks. I'm 62 years young!

You didnt tell us you had had a birthday Andy.

cbrown372

cbrown372 wrote: »

dogboneday seems to have been his March user name there

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?387169-benefits-and-tax

and this is Andy's April user name on CAG

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?389383-Do-you-tell-people-you-are-on-ESA&p=4213638&viewfull=1#post4213638

Parva

If you truly are 63 then there's nothing to prevent you from seeking employment as an Asda shelf stacker or something Andy. Let me predict the outcome, you no longer need to work because you are considerably richer than us (Harry Enfield). You have managed to avoid the new world of austerity; When I was 16 I walked straight in to a printing job and for a further 25 years I progressed through the ranks earning a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes.

You're angry because you're not getting all the benefits you feel you or your family deserves - more likely yourself given that you are under that 65 year old threshold. Anyway I must go as I need to board my private yacht that was supplied by the (non) working people like you. We've all asked to be disabled and put in to that ESA Support Group, it's totally our fault when the working man like you has to finance it. Oh wait, how wrong of me to blame you. It's totally my fault that I got cancer, much as it is with say a child with cerebral palsy at birth. Why should we get extra benefits to try and help us in life, we should all be shoved in a convalescent home with no benefits at all, problem solved eh........

guilds

LunaLady wrote: »

You didnt tell us you had had a birthday Andy.

I spotted that too, how is the drumming going Andy?:rotfl: