People on the dole

TurkishDelight

Graham_Devon wrote: »

If you want a ******* job, why do you say 'oh well i have a fund coming soon'.

Because I have been unemployed for 18 months, and I doubt I will get one in the next 4. Just to clarify, my trust fund is nowhere near enough to live on, but it is enough to get me a cheap car, driving lessons and a relocate so I can get a job.

Scarlett1

TurkishDelight wrote: »

Because I have been unemployed for 18 months, and I doubt I will get one in the next 4. Just to clarify, my trust fund is nowhere near enough to live on, but it is enough to get me a cheap car, driving lessons and a relocate so I can get a job.

I think thats the best way to spend the trust fund (also put some away for a rainy day), it cant be good for your social life either living somewhere remote like that.

TurkishDelight

Scarlett1 wrote: »

I think thats the best way to spend the trust fund (also put some away for a rainy day), it cant be good for your social life either living somewhere remote like that.

It's not, I don't really socialise outside of the internet, cos there's just nowhere to go (pub's almost empty except for some old farmers :rotfl:)

Graham_Devon

TurkishDelight wrote: »

Because I have been unemployed for 18 months, and I doubt I will get one in the next 4. Just to clarify, my trust fund is nowhere near enough to live on, but it is enough to get me a cheap car, driving lessons and a relocate so I can get a job.

In the next 4 months you could have got enough money to pay for your driving lessons just by using your time wisely. As I have previously explained about 3 times.

You seem to just tell me your busy.

Fair enough. Your trust fund could then have paid for other stuff, or made it easier.

As it is, you seem to want to just wait for that. That's what I don't get.

Edinburghlass_2

Plenty of people in hotels are employed between the hours of 10.30 and 4.00 in the restaurant/kitchen/housekeeping/reception, same in retail to cover lunch breaks etc.

However you do have to make the effort and actually go into each and every hotel and/or shop and give them your details "a la gees a job".

This company is obviously still recruiting for a work from home job and all the help you would need is available on here from the successful job starters.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=536017

TurkishDelight

Graham_Devon wrote: »

In the next 4 months you could have got enough money to pay for your driving lessons just by using your time wisely. As I have previously explained about 3 times.

You seem to just tell me your busy.

Fair enough. Your trust fund could then have paid for other stuff, or made it easier.

As it is, you seem to want to just wait for that. That's what I don't get.

And, as I have explained- I am doing everything that I can find, but I have been online a little over a month and I am still finding my feet with it all. I do this stuff, but I do have other commitments as well. And besides which most of the surveys I recieve, I get a good few questions in and then I am told that I don't meet their needs.

Strapped

I think your main problem is your current location. Hence my earlier suggestion re. the company providing accomodation and food. With what they pay on top, you would be able to afford driving lessons each week too. I understand where you're coming from, as I grew up in the sticks in the West Country; I moved away when I was 17 and have only just managed to move back this year (aged 35!) In an ideal world, there would be local jobs for everyone but sometimes you have to bite the bullet and venture off into the big bad world...

Good luck (and get that application form in for PGL, you won't regret it).

Firefly

TurkishDelight wrote: »

OU courses are equivalent to a part time job in hours. quote]


??? Really??? Not the ones I've taken! I've done a level one course and two level two. You tend to spend about 14+ hours a week on them if you're dedicated. I do that on top of a full time job. I wouldn't for a moment consider those to be part time job hours.

If your course is only 4 months then you've got time to book yourself in for two x level two courses starting in Jan/Feb then you'll have part of a degree by the time your inheritance kicks in. Job done, you won't need to lift a finger then!

TurkishDelight

Edinburghlass wrote: »

Plenty of people in hotels are employed between the hours of 10.30 and 4.00 in the restaurant/kitchen/housekeeping/reception, same in retail to cover lunch breaks etc.

However you do have to make the effort and actually go into each and every hotel and/or shop and give them your details "a la gees a job".

This company is obviously still recruiting for a work from home job and all the help you would need is available on here from the successful job starters.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=536017

Thanks but it does say something along the lines of "previous experience is essential" and I really don't have any.

Edinburghlass_2

Have you read the entire thread as I think you'll find that very few people who applied AND got jobs had any previous experience.