People on the dole

bookemdano

well said. You reading this Turkishdelight?

red_devil

getting back to work after a long period unemployed is very hard work if not impossible especially if you are unskilled. Employers like people who have constantly worked and favour the one with the most experience. If you havent been given a chance you wont have any experience will you? Its extremely competitive out there, lots of other people are going for the same job and if you not been working or have very little experience you can kiss goodbye to the job.

Its alot harder to get jobs than people think. Its not a tailor made service you dont go into the jobcentre say you want a particular job and get it. As for the government training schemes they dont not help people find work they are just a way of covering up the true number of unemployed people they take them off the count for a while. Taxpayers pay for those schemes and they dont work, so taxpayers your money is being wasted on New Deal. They are a fiddle thats all. I thought most people knew that. Give the poster what they are saying is quite accurate.

red_devil

a break that should say.

pipkin71

Iom-rf wrote: »

DWP shouldn't pay for driving lessons though, thats stupid!, I paid £26 a lesson, so should everyone else....

Where we are, it's not the DSS who pay for the driving lessons, but places that are used by the DSS to help people back into work - places like work directions. They will pay for driving lessons, new clothes, child care etcetera, with the aim of getting people into work.

Carmina_Piranha_3

not relevant to the OP but people working part time etx. might be interested. i saw a poster on the bus today about adult learning grants. up to £30 a week if you're in college full time (12 hours per week+) on a level 2 or 3 course

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/EducationAndLearning/AdultLearning/Adultlearninggrant/DG_068346

i'd never heard of this, is it new?

IvanOpinion

I was just thinking back .. my first full time job was 60 miles from my house so I had to get digs during the week (significant amount out of my pay packet) .. after a couple of years I bought a house closer to work. 2 years later I then changed job to one that was 65 miles from our house. I could not afford to pay extra for digs, due to the mortgage, and therefore had no choice but to drive 130mile round trip every day ... it took almost 18months to sell the house and I moved back to the town I started from (nearer rest of the family). It is still 32miles from work, but I am happy to drive that.

Ivan

katiekittykat

I left school at 16 with only a few GCSE's (math and science not any of them!)

I managed to get job and i didn't drive!

I couldn't drive til I was 23! It didn't stop me from working.

Sounds to me like you are just making excuses not to work, there is work out there for everyone - even if it is working in macdonalds!

pipkin71

katiekittykat wrote: »

Sounds to me like you are just making excuses not to work, there is work out there for everyone - even if it is working in macdonalds!

I do get the feeling though that the OP has some sort of low self esteem issue - she has mentioned depression on another thread - and although it would seem to many that there is just excuse after excuse, I think it is more than that, and it is more than the issue of transport that the OP needs to tackle, not only in order to get a job, but to keep it too.

Carmina_Piranha_3

i imagine that relocating would be a massive step for somebody who hasn't been to school and has a limited social sphere.

turkishdelight is your parents house rented or bought? would your mum relocate with you do you think? (i think you mentioned your parents splitting up). do you have any cousins, penfriends etc. who might make the move with you so you could work for the same company? i remember when i was a teen a group of friends were all planning to work at butlins as chambermaids.

are there any aunts etc. that you could stay with for a few weeks while looking for a job and a bedsit in their area?

misscomickat

She has to fly the nest at some time.

I worked at PGL one summer in Wales. To be honest I hated it but other people seemed to enjoy it. There are other jobs that provide accommodation, especially hotel and bar jobs.