job centre demanding I look for full time work as have no children

JustOnce

lovinituk wrote: »

No, not at all. I'm just a hard working someone who has been in almost exactly the same position as the OP but I didn't resort to crying on the internet because the tax payer wouldn't fund my hobby.

So it's bitterness? Bitterness at not enjoying your own daily grind?

lovinituk

JustOnce wrote: »

So it's bitterness? Bitterness at not enjoying your own daily grind?

Not even close! I run my own successful company so do pretty much what I want, when I want. I got to this point without crying about the tax payer not funding my hobby.

wiltsguy_2

happenstance wrote: »

Reach a national level then dedicate much of your free time to it then you might make the switchover to pro.

i meant by the taxpayer

shegirl

JustOnce wrote: »

I was the same. I waited until my savings were below the threshold and started my claim. I swear the lady in the job centre was shocked as I showed her statements from several bank accounts, shares etc.

Just you have to remember the people here are true working class, many not far from being non-economic contributors themselves so they buy into the IDS hate. Yet ironically, they love politicians despite having paid for their duck ponds to be cleaned.

Another bridge dweller :rotfl:

wishus

Hey, Happenstance.

I think it might not be the answer you need to hear, but it might be best to keep looking for full-time work as well as part-time, and just go for it if you get a bite from any employer, even if it's not what you want to do, or the right number of hours.

I understand you have been building the dream job up while you were still employed at the part-time job you recently lost. I take it your desired profession is not earning you much at the moment, or the costs are exceeding your earnings. However, it's something you feel you have a chance at success at, if only you could find the time.

I would like to offer you some words of encouragement, but I would also say do not ignore the good advice regarding obeying the criteria for receiving JSA, if you continue to choose to do so.

I currently have a full-time job, plus a secondary income stream that I earn outside full-time hours, but which is currently not enough to live on by itself. I also have a hobby that I would like to build up, but which currently costs me more than I earn from it (but is fun, and sociable and a nice contrast to jobs 1 and 2). When the second income is built up, and my debts/mortgage reduced, I should be able to quit job 1. Fingers crossed, I will also be earning more from the hobby, so that this can become my second income stream instead. My current second income stream began as a hobby, too.

To be able to work for myself is a dream, but an achievable one. However, it's not going to happen overnight. If I were to find myself suddenly made redundant from job 1, it would be a real struggle and I would have no choice but to try to replace that income. If that were to happen further along in my plan, it might be that part-time work would suit my situation better, but unless it happened right at the end of my plan, I'd have to cut my cloth accordingly. And that would be in time as well as money.

Just consider that you have 168 hours in a week. You need to 56 sleep, a few to eat and you may need 40 or so for a full-time job, but the rest are all yours.

JustOnce

shegirl wrote: »

Another bridge dweller :rotfl:

You would be surprised actually. What I am is someone who says things how they are. Usually I would apply a filter in how I say things, but seeing as this site has such a pack mentality I see no reason why i should. Most of you are trolls but you just stick together. Makes it no less troll like however.

FBaby

Surely if you are looking at turning pro, you should be looking for sponsorship! I'm sure if your career is promising, you will manage to find someone prepared to sponsor you for more than £200 a month and then you even get to train more.

That's the problem when you make up stories trying to pretent to be clever, the fact that you are not means your story doesn't hold!

lovinituk

JustOnce wrote: »

You would be surprised actually. What I am is someone who says things how they are. Usually I would apply a filter in how I say things, but seeing as this site has such a pack mentality I see no reason why i should. Most of you are trolls but you just stick together. Makes it no less troll like however.

I very much say things as I see them - I don't bother with "filters", what's the point. I would happily say the same things to someones face as I post here. I'm certainly not part of any pack. I don't know any of the members of this forum. If the majority don't agree with you, me or the next poster then they will say so. Anyone who can't handle that probably shouldn't be using internet forums. I have the skin of a rhino so don't give a hoot what people say or think of me and/or my posts.

JustOnce

lovinituk wrote: »

I very much say things as I see them - I don't bother with "filters", what's the point. I would happily say the same things to someones face as I post here. I'm certainly not part of any pack. I don't know any of the members of this forum. If the majority don't agree with you, me or the next poster then they will say so. Anyone who can't handle that probably shouldn't be using internet forums. I have the skin of a rhino so don't give a hoot what people say or think of me and/or my posts.

I find people are more polite in real life than online. I guess because in real life, I am phyiscially intimidating; I'm over six foot tall, covered in tattoos and am fairly broad (and fighting in a cage is my main hobby - and also ex-military), so I guess it's just comical as I can't imagine receiving the responses I've had on here before, being said to my face.

Not that people have reason to be concerned, but you know, bullies and all that.

Bogof_Babe

happenstance wrote: »

You shouldn't of edited what you originally put, was spot on.

Shouldn't have...

I take it that in this high powered job you had a secretary to deal with your correspondence?