People on the dole

dearbarbie

Either that, or an online course perhaps?

BlueNose1984

I was unemployed for almost 2 years, but I just kept on trying and trying to get jobs.

I admit, I was a bit lazy at first as I living with my boyfriend's lot, but when I moved back home £140 a fortnight was not enough to live on. I applied for jobs here there and everywhere with little success. So in April I was assigned on a New Deal Scheme where each week I would see an advisor and we would go for jobs we would find

In early June, my advisor recommened me for a job at their office in another part of the city as a filing clerk. I went to the interview and got the job! She felt this would be for me as I have so much potential and it would be better than shop work.

In 6 months I have gone from filing and archiving into a personal assistant for the managers at this office. This was originally a 13 week contract, but I have been kept on until May 2008 where from then on, they'll keep me on for good. I work part-time, but after the expiration, I will be going full-time.

A lot of hard work can pay off and there is jobs out there

dellymelly

i know what you mean, i used to live in a very built up area and get my kids to childminders, get bus, and go to work easy......... even if it took 2 hours you knew you would get there, but when you live in a very different area, way out of bus routes, train routes, its very very hard and thats if the bus your relying on turns up cos if it doesnt then you have to wait another 2 hours.
every sympathy living in wales, they have industrial estates by the thousand but nobody can get there, apart from people who can drive, or on the bus route.
the flowers by the roadside.. townies dont know the difference its an everyday occurence to them or people just dont care and dont put flowers, wales is a very caring country and you will get a job, best of luck.

anewman

dellymelly wrote: »

the flowers by the roadside.. townies dont know the difference its an everyday occurence to them or people just dont care and dont put flowers, wales is a very caring country and you will get a job, best of luck.

I live next to a main road and have seen a few clusters of flowers. They just tend to get left their to die. Wonder if someone should care to remove them once the flowers have died and been there for 7 months tied to the railings

dellymelly

thats the difference, yours must be wilted,forgotten and dead, in wales they are there for as long as need be and then removed, which is not for months and months. which is the way for welsh people and very nice too, by the way, the next bunch of floweres that you get or give are most likely from wales, cos you take, take, take.

seven-day-weekend

I feel sorry for the OP and can see her problems.

She is only young and has led a very sheltered life and from what she says has had not had a lot of support from her parents and is still getting none.

I think she needs to find lodgings in a bigger town or a live-in-job and when her money comes through she'll be able to afford driving lessons.

Whart a shame her parents are not helping her out.

I hope she has some success soon.

PasturesNew

anewman wrote: »

I wish I could just leave out my degree when applying for crap jobs as it seems to be the case that employers like people they can keep tethered down in a crap job. But a good few years of my application would be blank (no work) if I was to lie.

My dad did that back in the mid 70s. He was made redundant after 25 years as an electronics engineer. He spent 2 years on the dole applying for jobs and getting nothing.

One day he dropped off his qualifications, his letters after his name, dumbed down his past jobs and applied for a job with British Rail. They gave him a job and he spent the next 10 years happy as a sandboy as stationmaster at small local railway stations. So he'd do everything from unlock, to selling the tickets, to sweeping the platform and changing the loo roll.

He retired from there after about 10 years.

Money wasn't half bad either. Well, enough to keep body and soul together anyway.

anewman

dellymelly wrote: »

by the way, the next bunch of floweres that you get or give are most likely from wales, cos you take, take, take.

Hey my girlfriend is Welsh and I'm coming over that way soon

Dw i'n hoffi Cymru :rotfl:

Oldernotwiser

Just Move!

angelflower_2

my last job, i wrote out to 50 different companies in my area and offered to work for free if they would train me and was lucky to get a job. Worked my way up the company v quickly but then I totally screwed things up and had to resign.

Now I am looking for another job which is extremely difficult as due to problems in last job, no one wants to hire me.

However, i am williing to do ANYTHING to get back on track and so am going for a trial shoveling horse poop for 9 1/2 hours a day on min wage.