best agency for easy/brain-dead work?

BillJones

mattcanary wrote: »

I know - I have a lack of self-belief too.

Yet mixed with a strangely superior, patronising atttitude...

mattcanary

BillJones wrote: »

I've said what I'd recommend, which is improving their skills.

As to where I get the idea that they want to scrape along the bottom, they are looking for "brain-dead" work. Does that not implyt, to you, a certain lack of ambition?

And before you decide to get the wrong idea, this has nothing to do with what they morally "ought" to do, it's simply a statement that if this is what they aim for, that they will likely live a poorer life than they otherwise would. If they are happy that way, that's fine, but I don't get that impression.

I also don't get why so many on here seem happy to suggest that people should aim low. If you read the other parts of the forum, it can leave you one small misfortune away from utter misery.

Actually for once, I don't entirely disagree with this.
Only so many "good" jobs to go around though.

devilivus

BillJones wrote: »

I've said what I'd recommend, which is improving their skills.

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What skills specifically? He appears to write fairly well.

mattcanary

BillJones wrote: »

Yet mixed with a strangely superior, patronising atttitude...

It's easy to be like that on a forum.
I'm sure you could back me up on that. It takes one to know one, after all

fufu_banterwaite

morganedge wrote: »

No.
I've tried before and I was awful. I have a very bad memory for starters and got everything wrong on busy shifts. I kept messing up on the till, too. I didn't last long!

I'm hoping there's something out there, and that someone will suggest an idea, maybe for a course, and say:

''Oh you should take a course in xxxxx. My brother took a course in xxxxx and qualified in a few months, and it landed him a nice job in an office where he just sits at his PC and mainly works writing emails/updating customer info etc, and he gets more than minimum wage''

What I am intrigued about is you say you have never earnt more than 16k, but you are not claiming benefits and living off of savings from your previous employment.

You seem to have been unemployed for a long time now - how have you managed to eek out the savings for so long? You can't have saved that much on these miniscule salaries you talk of?

Also be honest, how much do you proactively do to help yourself find this elusive course aside from continually posting on here the same kind of question and then poo poo-ing anyone who has a suggestion?

fufu_banterwaite

mattcanary wrote: »

It's easy to be like that on a forum.
I'm sure you could back me up on that. It takes one to know one, after all

Matt - Morgan does have a patronising attitude, I think you should stop picking on Bill who is actually trying to help here.

mattcanary

morganedge wrote: »

No.
I've tried before and I was awful. I have a very bad memory for starters and got everything wrong on busy shifts. I kept messing up on the till, too. I didn't last long!

I'm hoping there's something out there, and that someone will suggest an idea, maybe for a course, and say:

''Oh you should take a course in xxxxx. My brother took a course in xxxxx and qualified in a few months, and it landed him a nice job in an office where he just sits at his PC and mainly works writing emails/updating customer info etc, and he gets more than minimum wage''

Maybe buying cheap goods in bulk and selling them on?
Maybe on Amazon or Ebay? Or in person at a car boot sale or something similar? Do you have a car?
I'm tentatively researching this at the moment.
I went to a general auction in my area yesterday.
Some things were going really cheap. Two boxes of books went for £4.00 (about £5.00 with fees added). Okay, I know generally secondhand books don't generally sell for much at all nowadays. But in this particular box, there were some really interesting looking old books about cricket mainly. I believe specialised books can still sell on Amazon for half-decent amounts of money, sometimes.
Would only need two or three of these books to sell to start making a profit. The two boxes must have contained about 30 books in total.




Ok, maybe this is a rubbish idea and wouldn't suit you. I'm still researching this type of thing myself
You can also claim Working Tax Credit if you work 30 hours + a week as well (if you are single without children), to help top up your income if you do this kind of work.


Don't have to buy at auctions - could be at places like car boot sales, etc. too.

morganedge

fufu_banterwaite wrote: »

Matt - Morgan does have a patronising attitude, I think you should stop picking on Bill who is actually trying to help here.

I have a patronising attitude??

mattcanary

fufu_banterwaite wrote: »

Matt - Morgan does have a patronising attitude, I think you should stop picking on Bill who is actually trying to help here.

Bill is one of the most patronising posters I have seen anywhere.
You know I was replying to him. A very poor attempt at humour, from you.


Bill was replying to my post, not Morgan's.

fufu_banterwaite

morganedge wrote: »

I have a patronising attitude??

No, Matt does.