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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1297107/Please-job-Unemployed-man-bags-job-spot-standing-rain-hours-sign.html

Saw that earlier in the local paper, the roundabout he was stood at is only about 3-4mins walk from my house-anyway

I wish people would take note, all those that claim they 'cant get jobs' - fact is they're happy just being on the system

I watched that fair job mother earlier on 4od, and the woman on there had worked 14months in the last 20years..pathetic, claims she can't get a job and has tried everything,moaning about immigrants stealing all the jobs etc--but then says she wouldn't work for 6 pounds an hour!!!

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that's amazing! he could have wore some nicer clothes. not that it really matters though cause he still got a job.

i watched an episode of the last series with that jobmother woman, one woman got offered a job in poundland, but the wages were so low, she would have had less money working than she did on benefits. :blink:

not everyone who is unemployed wants to be though, i think it's ridiculous of you to say that. there's a lot of people looking for jobs right now, so there's a lot of competition when you apply for a job. and when people have been rejected for so many jobs you can't blame them for giving up, it gets depressing.

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that's amazing! he could have wore some nicer clothes. not that it really matters though cause he still got a job.

i watched an episode of the last series with that jobmother woman, one woman got offered a job in poundland, but the wages were so low, she would have had less money working than she did on benefits. :blink:

not everyone who is unemployed wants to be though, i think it's ridiculous of you to say that. there's a lot of people looking for jobs right now, so there's a lot of competition when you apply for a job. and when people have been rejected for so many jobs you can't blame them for giving up, it gets depressing.

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I'm not in the system and I dont want to go back on again but I have a crazy 15 year old CV that is full of short term contracts and nothing that long term or solid other than the very small area I worked in over 5 years in a number of locations. Its bloody hard trying to make something that all over the place look like someone (me) worth investing in and therefore I dont entirely have the confidence to go for work that is more than just the crappy minimum wage. Catch 22 number 1! I feel at the bottom of the pile with not much of an idea of how to climb out of it.

A call to a CV doctor is happening today and hopefully a boost to the low feeling I am existing in currently but its also a catch 22, I have no absolutely money so cant move out of home to join the rat race and work and try and pay horrifically high rents for a shitty room in the town or city where there is work and/or work 2 if not 3 jobs just to be able to live because funnily enough you cant get any benefits because you are a hard working person trying to get by on £6 an hour and dont want to go on benefits because there isnt any need to, there is no temp work currently because every uni kid is off for the holidays now also trying to earn so cant earn, only doing temp work adds to the silly CV and so on.

You cant find anyone suitable to give career advice and the Job Centre despite all its promises and hard work is not a fun place to go for next to no answers on how to sort your life out. The internet whilst fantastic at having a gazillion jobs at the touch of a button, when you have funny, limited skills, its bloody impossible trying to find anything other than entry level at 30+ years old...I wish I even knew where to start in finding the right line of enquiry to go down. This sad sorry situation the country is in now where not even graduates can get a job even after the 3 years of uni is so harsh now. I've landed on my feet before but after seeing the work situation get steadily worse since returning from Oz last year its a battlefield out there hence why people like the guy in the article has to take desperate measures like the one he did. Good on him.

If anyone has the pointers on how and where to find the more quirkier jobs in life other than the same old lists of Accountancy, Admin, Care, Hotel, Business...please let me know! They must exist but I for one dont have the first bloody clue where to start looking. Gumtree is a risk and usually a waste of time at the end of the day.

I do not want to have to go back to the Job Centre to sign on that is for sure!

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I'm not in the system and I dont want to go back on again but I have a crazy 15 year old CV that is full of short term contracts and nothing that long term or solid other than the very small area I worked in over 5 years in a number of locations. Its bloody hard trying to make something that all over the place look like someone (me) worth investing in and therefore I dont entirely have the confidence to go for work that is more than just the crappy minimum wage. Catch 22 number 1! I feel at the bottom of the pile with not much of an idea of how to climb out of it.

A call to a CV doctor is happening today and hopefully a boost to the low feeling I am existing in currently but its also a catch 22, I have no absolutely money so cant move out of home to join the rat race and work and try and pay horrifically high rents for a shitty room in the town or city where there is work and/or work 2 if not 3 jobs just to be able to live because funnily enough you cant get any benefits because you are a hard working person trying to get by on £6 an hour and dont want to go on benefits because there isnt any need to, there is no temp work currently because every uni kid is off for the holidays now also trying to earn so cant earn, only doing temp work adds to the silly CV and so on.

You cant find anyone suitable to give career advice and the Job Centre despite all its promises and hard work is not a fun place to go for next to no answers on how to sort your life out. The internet whilst fantastic at having a gazillion jobs at the touch of a button, when you have funny, limited skills, its bloody impossible trying to find anything other than entry level at 30+ years old...I wish I even knew where to start in finding the right line of enquiry to go down. This sad sorry situation the country is in now where not even graduates can get a job even after the 3 years of uni is so harsh now. I've landed on my feet before but after seeing the work situation get steadily worse since returning from Oz last year its a battlefield out there hence why people like the guy in the article has to take desperate measures like the one he did. Good on him.

If anyone has the pointers on how and where to find the more quirkier jobs in life other than the same old lists of Accountancy, Admin, Care, Hotel, Business...please let me know! They must exist but I for one dont have the first bloody clue where to start looking. Gumtree is a risk and usually a waste of time at the end of the day.

I do not want to have to go back to the Job Centre to sign on that is for sure!

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I'm not in the system and I dont want to go back on again but I have a crazy 15 year old CV that is full of short term contracts and nothing that long term or solid other than the very small area I worked in over 5 years in a number of locations. Its bloody hard trying to make something that all over the place look like someone (me) worth investing in and therefore I dont entirely have the confidence to go for work that is more than just the crappy minimum wage. Catch 22 number 1! I feel at the bottom of the pile with not much of an idea of how to climb out of it.

A call to a CV doctor is happening today and hopefully a boost to the low feeling I am existing in currently but its also a catch 22, I have no absolutely money so cant move out of home to join the rat race and work and try and pay horrifically high rents for a shitty room in the town or city where there is work and/or work 2 if not 3 jobs just to be able to live because funnily enough you cant get any benefits because you are a hard working person trying to get by on £6 an hour and dont want to go on benefits because there isnt any need to, there is no temp work currently because every uni kid is off for the holidays now also trying to earn so cant earn, only doing temp work adds to the silly CV and so on.

You cant find anyone suitable to give career advice and the Job Centre despite all its promises and hard work is not a fun place to go for next to no answers on how to sort your life out. The internet whilst fantastic at having a gazillion jobs at the touch of a button, when you have funny, limited skills, its bloody impossible trying to find anything other than entry level at 30+ years old...I wish I even knew where to start in finding the right line of enquiry to go down. This sad sorry situation the country is in now where not even graduates can get a job even after the 3 years of uni is so harsh now. I've landed on my feet before but after seeing the work situation get steadily worse since returning from Oz last year its a battlefield out there hence why people like the guy in the article has to take desperate measures like the one he did. Good on him.

If anyone has the pointers on how and where to find the more quirkier jobs in life other than the same old lists of Accountancy, Admin, Care, Hotel, Business...please let me know! They must exist but I for one dont have the first bloody clue where to start looking. Gumtree is a risk and usually a waste of time at the end of the day.

I do not want to have to go back to the Job Centre to sign on that is for sure!

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The incentive ? To provide for your family yourself and not ask the tax payer to fund your existence ?

Our society is a mess... You expect people like me to go out and work, miss my family during the day, so others can sit back and stay at home with their kids...

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The incentive ? To provide for your family yourself and not ask the tax payer to fund your existence ?

Our society is a mess... You expect people like me to go out and work, miss my family during the day, so others can sit back and stay at home with their kids...

Here is a radical idea... If you can't afford to have kids wait until you can ? and try getting married and committing to each other before breeding left right and centre.... I know its a bit out there like...

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Fecking hell - don't let that Halo slip hon!

I don't think there are really that many people who have kids that expect to have to spend the rest of their life on benefits. I'm sure its a fairly small minority that do, but its easy to find them all as they are bunched together in estates. Keep them down, keep them in their own little insular society yet, ostracise them yet expect them to work their way out of deprevation, poverty, lack of education etc.

Then to top it all off there are companies out there offering money to these people to buy all those things they would love to have but can't afford, at extortionate interest rates, just to make sure they are kept even further down in the mire.

Even though we have a welfare state, and even though if you don't work you can get benefits to keep you at a certain standard of living, the way we treat people is really no better than in victorian england.

I do think your view is extremely short sighted.

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That's great, I'm happy you are happy. But in the real world, with folk who can only earn minimum wage and take home £150 a week, but can get £160 benefits a week, what should they do? The cost of childcare alone would eat all that up.

Your point reinforces my first point ; that it's incredibly easy for those with to sit here and judge those without.

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