Colin
Member
Registered: 4th Apr 02
User status: Offline
|
Its not a step back though as such, you can go back to IT at any time. If anything your showing how versitile you are by taking a stop gap job when you need one and are not ashamed to roll your sleves up and get on with it!!
I would say thats more attractive to a prospective employer (for a job in the future which you might really want) than saying you've sat at home for 6 months waiting for them to come along...?
[Edited on 16-08-2009 by Colin]
|
M2RTY
Member
Registered: 25th May 01
User status: Offline
|
colin there is such a thing as being over qualified for a job, happens a lot
|
Carl
Member
Registered: 9th May 04
Location: Jimmy Bennett's la la land.
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by kz
Have to admit I don't wanna take any old job, I'm 25 now and feel I should of achieved something  but my whole CV's pointed towards the IT industry, and that's what I wanna do.
I'd take anything IT related, but working in Macky D's? Maybe five years ago if I was desperate. I understand it's different for people that have more outgoings (I only have car, phone and internet really) but I want a career damn it!
There are some bloody good careers to be had at McDonalds! My friend worked there through college etc, he was a bright kid, moved up the ranks, and whilst he was going his degree he did work experience there. He went down to London working around ideas for new products etc, says he used to be sat in meetings with people on silly money, head of Europe McD's type people on mega bucks.
I'm with Colin, I'd have a go at anything, £200 a week is better than 50 over 2, I've done quite a very temp jobs, stuck them out for 1 and 2 weeks and they often felt like a lifetime! Factories, warehouses and data entry.
|
corsa120
Member
Registered: 4th May 02
Location: Northamptonshire
User status: Offline
|
is 50quid a week the going rate on the dole for say someone like me who works full time with mortgage etc etc?
ive never claimed the dole and my job seems ok fingers crossed, picking up alot recently but i dont know seem to hear people getting different amounts
|
kz
Member
Registered: 9th Aug 02
Location: Southend, Essex Drives: Mini Cooper S
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Colin
Its not a step back though as such, you can go back to IT at any time. If anything your showing how versitile you are by taking a stop gap job when you need one and are not ashamed to roll your sleves up and get on with it!!
I would say thats more attractive to a prospective employer (for a job in the future which you might really want) than saying you've sat at home for 6 months waiting for them to come along...?
[Edited on 16-08-2009 by Colin]
Yeah I guess, I do see what you're saying. It's just I'm scared of getting stuck somewhere crappy, as I've been there and done that and found it hard to get out! I had to quit to find another job as I just didn't have the time to find one with working all the time. It's not that I'm in a worse situation money wise now, but then I had to get myself outta debt (which I did) and I didn't have saved up money to loose as it were.
quote:
Originally posted by corsa120
is 50quid a week the going rate on the dole for say someone like me who works full time with mortgage etc etc?
ive never claimed the dole and my job seems ok fingers crossed, picking up alot recently but i dont know seem to hear people getting different amounts
£50 for under 25, £65 for over.
|
shaunmods
Premium Member
Registered: 12th Mar 07
Location: Glascote, Staffordshire
User status: Offline
|
I've never been on it and don't think I would unless I absolutely had to, purely because of the stigma as hammer said.
I don't mind if people are genuinely entitled to it. But I know a lad whos been on it for sometime but not looked for work. What annoys me is he actually earns more than me off the dole, sitting on his arse all day than I do in part time work  and he had the cheek to laugh at me about it! Where is the motivation for people like this to get work?
[Edited on 16-08-2009 by shaunmods]
|
Graham88
Member
Registered: 16th Apr 07
Location: South East Kent Drives: E46 M3
User status: Offline
|
Yeah Shaun that was the same as me when I was working at Sainsburys, my mate earned double what I earnt and I had a job whilst he sat on his arse, thats when the system is wrong.
I've never been on it and never have any intention of using it. I hope everyone enjoys the extortionate amount in taxes I pay.
|
taylorboosh
Member
Registered: 3rd Apr 07
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
quote:
Originally posted by john-d
quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
d. they won it
e. they were given it
f. they stole it
so because someone has been lucky and inherited or won a sum of money means that they arent entitled to what every one else is?
I never said that, the point about them having money in the bank so not getting dole wasnt mine.
I was just pointing out that your 3 assumptions that they must be good with money where as someone who doesnt have savings isnt could be far far far from the truth.
oh i see, my bad 
|
Brett
Premium Member
Registered: 16th Dec 02
Location: Manchester
User status: Offline
|
I'm interested how people on the dole are receiving more than people with jobs? You must have really shitty jobs. They get £50 a week. Even the most crappest of minimum wage jobs would pay more than that.
My mate gets the full everything an unemployed person could get...
Housing benefit = £65 x 4 weeks (council flat, not some penthouse apartment).
Council tax = £80
JSA = £50 x 4 weeks
= £540
You don't get bills paid for regardless what people think. He has to pay for gas/elec and any other luxeries like sky/broadband (which he doesn't have) out of these things.
How is that better than someone could earn, even on minimum wage? TBH, although living for free, he struggles a hell of a lot to pay for everything including feeding himself and transport on buses, etc.
They don't live the life of luxury for free like people seem to think. Ok, there are scammers out there who are claiming disability on top, but that's a different topic all together.
|
Marc
Member
Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
User status: Offline
|
I'm not a fan if I'm honest. I'd worked for 8 years then they made me fill in 10 forms and a few phone calls as they didn't believe I qualified for it. Yet some lazy bastard out there will be given a cheque no questions asked. 
|
kz
Member
Registered: 9th Aug 02
Location: Southend, Essex Drives: Mini Cooper S
User status: Offline
|
I was really against joining it when I first got made redundant. But my mates kept saying ffs you pay all this TAX and for what, get some of it back! You're entitled to it! Then I thought yeah TAX does piss me off actually, it doesn't feel like I'm gonna be scrounging off other people, just that I'm getting my money back 
|
Ian W
Member
Registered: 8th Nov 03
Location: Wirral, Merseyside
User status: Offline
|
I was on it a few years ago when I was out of work. No problem with people on it as long as there happy to have a look for a job which seems split about 50/50 with the layabouts who want to live for free.
|
M2RTY
Member
Registered: 25th May 01
User status: Offline
|
you NEED to do it or your NI contributions are messed up
|
kz
Member
Registered: 9th Aug 02
Location: Southend, Essex Drives: Mini Cooper S
User status: Offline
|
Walked into town to go there today, got told to go home again as I need to phone first point...
But I have done and now have an appointment for tomorrow. Gonna be fun!
|
Ben G
Member
Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
User status: Offline
|
my missus was between jobs when she moved down here.
didn't get fuck all money off them for the 2 months she was out of work.
fucking idiots the lot of them. she went to all their silly meetings aswell, even the one where they made her (me driving) travel 15 miles away to a job centre even though we have one 2 minutes around the corner from the house.
idiots.
|
Ben G
Member
Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
User status: Offline
|
oh and it wasn't like she didn't try to get the money. she had to send letters off (about 5 in total) only for them to say she isn't eligible to claim money.
the fuck is the point in paying national insurance and tax and all that stuff when you can't get anythig back when you lose your job?
|
will_doyle
Banned
Registered: 25th Nov 08
Location: Exeter
User status: Offline
|
the dole
the money is shit but the hours are fucking fantastic
|
JonnyJ
Member
Registered: 23rd Sep 05
Location: Scotchland
User status: Offline
|
Wow. Only took you 18 days to think of that cracker 
Mazin
|
Cosmo
Member
Registered: 29th Mar 01
Location: Im the real one!
User status: Offline
|
the doyle
the posts arent funny and he is not all there
|
Anty
Premium Member
Registered: 19th Mar 08
Location: droitwich
User status: Offline
|
its shite, i get 124. p 2 wks
|
kz
Member
Registered: 9th Aug 02
Location: Southend, Essex Drives: Mini Cooper S
User status: Offline
|
I got paid £18 
|
Anty
Premium Member
Registered: 19th Mar 08
Location: droitwich
User status: Offline
|
y 18 quid?
|
Cosmo
Member
Registered: 29th Mar 01
Location: Im the real one!
User status: Offline
|
y nt he gt pd 18 qd?
|
J da Silva
Member
Registered: 10th Apr 03
Location: The FACTory
User status: Offline
|
i fnk 8teen qd iz rite w4nk.
|
richc
Member
Registered: 24th Mar 07
Location: Ilkeston
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by loafofbrett
I'm interested how people on the dole are receiving more than people with jobs? You must have really shitty jobs. They get £50 a week. Even the most crappest of minimum wage jobs would pay more than that.
My mate gets the full everything an unemployed person could get...
Housing benefit = £65 x 4 weeks (council flat, not some penthouse apartment).
Council tax = £80
JSA = £50 x 4 weeks
= £540
You don't get bills paid for regardless what people think. He has to pay for gas/elec and any other luxeries like sky/broadband (which he doesn't have) out of these things.
How is that better than someone could earn, even on minimum wage? TBH, although living for free, he struggles a hell of a lot to pay for everything including feeding himself and transport on buses, etc.
They don't live the life of luxury for free like people seem to think. Ok, there are scammers out there who are claiming disability on top, but that's a different topic all together.
Has no kids?
Bang one out, £1200-£1300 a month
|
