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Jobseeker's Allowance Megathread ver. The Jeremy Kyle Fan Club

Got lots of alcohol though, on the way back from Glastonbury Festival I found 5 bags of wine, a crate of carlseberg and 10 cans of strongbow, a brand new tent in bag, a nice camping chair, a bag containing three pills of design too faint to read and two awesome hats.
 
Working for the man

The RZA said:
How many posters on here are fully fledged dole scum and how many are locked into the daily grind?

Come on, don't be shy - I'm not here to judge, I'm just a nosey bastard.

The working contingent can even spill the beans on what they earn of they wish.
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I must confess that I work for my money. I have been lucky so far (touch wood) that I have only spent 18 months on the dole in the early 90's. That was a real shit time in my life, having no cash or purpose to my day. In the end I had to move to another county to get a job, ended up getting a job after one month there and have worked ever since.
Being out of work is no good for me as I find if I have no reason to get up each day then I will spend all day in bed and become very depressed.
So whenever I have a day now where I get tempted to pull a sickie I just think back to the days when I would have done anything to have been able to get up early and go to work.
 
ooh i like the look of this thread indeedy..... ive been on all sides of the fence, ive processed the benefit claims, telephoned people to say " im glad to say youve got a pittance to love on" or im afraid ye were self employed so ya can have fuck all" ive been on income support, and sat up the benefits agency trying to sort me claim out, and i work too now, but im off sick, god, thats not a bad idea that isnt, starting to watch jeremy kyle!!
 
I'll be calling on Monday to sign on, need some finances ASAP. Hoping in Scotland when on the dole you can still do a free course, last time I was signing on the TEFL course was one of them and I didn't bother my arse to do it. This time it has to be done. I want to start a new life abroad, if I fail then at least I tried.

Also hoping that me not signing off last time and fucking off to South America isn't gonna be a problem. Not sure how you really explain that.

I'm refusing to turn the tele on though especially not to watch Jezza, when I'm the only one in it's not going on and something productive will be done instead. Here I am sitting in on a Friday night teaching myself Portugese.
 
I'm sick of looking for a job (but I will still continue to) I try every day. Nothing changes, the direct gov site is not even updated, same old shit on agency sites, same agencies ringing me, saying we'll be in touch.

To be told by the guy who signs me that i'm one of 20 people he sees a day (and that's just him, in a busy city centre office) that everyone is in the same situation and has been for months. My hope is fading.
 
TheSpade said:
I'll be calling on Monday to sign on, need some finances ASAP. Hoping in Scotland when on the dole you can still do a free course, last time I was signing on the TEFL course was one of them and I didn't bother my arse to do it. This time it has to be done. I want to start a new life abroad, if I fail then at least I tried.

Also hoping that me not signing off last time and fucking off to South America isn't gonna be a problem. Not sure how you really explain that.

I'm refusing to turn the tele on though especially not to watch Jezza, when I'm the only one in it's not going on and something productive will be done instead. Here I am sitting in on a Friday night teaching myself Portugese.
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Not meaning to piss on your Paella or owt (I'm not being mean before you assume it, more pissed off at the system) but it took me a LONG time of being on the dole before I got offered any sort of course. TEFL's are expensive, you'll have needed to have been signed on a while before that, it wont happen instantly. Maybe Scotland is different, but from my experience on the dole up there, I don't think it is, I think it's worse.

I'm on stage three, and only started to be offered expensive courses.
 
Scotland is different the Scottish Government pay for it (or did 5 months ago) regardless of how long you've been signed on for, I forget the name for the programme but anyone earning under a certain amount (employed or not) can do a course up to a certain value (again forget the amount) for free. A TEFL course was on the list, might have just been a weekend thing so maybe it's not as intensive as it could be but better than nothing for free and it's all I need for teaching in SP. Actually don't even need that amazingly but it means I get paid more. :)
 
Got lots of alcohol though, on the way back from Glastonbury Festival I found 5 bags of wine, a crate of carlseberg and 10 cans of strongbow, a brand new tent in bag, a nice camping chair, a bag containing three pills of design too faint to read and two awesome hats.
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Did you find all that stuff just left inside a locked car yeah?
 
TheSpade said:
Scotland is different the Scottish Government pay for it (or did 5 months ago) regardless of how long you've been signed on for, I forget the name for the programme but anyone earning under a certain amount (employed or not) can do a course up to a certain value (again forget the amount) for free. A TEFL course was on the list, might have just been a weekend thing so maybe it's not as intensive as it could be but better than nothing for free and it's all I need for teaching in SP. Actually don't even need that amazingly but it means I get paid more. :)
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Go for it if you can get it, but TEFL is fucking hard work to get to a decent stage. My mate did it intensively for several months and still struggled teaching English above basic level.. tis definitely a worthwhile thing, but I'm not sure if a weekend would set you up for a career..?

If so, let me know :D

edit: surely bankruptcy would prevent you getting visas etc too? Not to piss on your bonfire or anything.. ;)
 
Being a UK citizen we don't really need visas for anywhere decent anyway. Australia and the States is bout all I can think of....ah well I've been to one of them already and can probably live without the visiting the other. Think bankruptcy only lasts for 5yrs anyway then you're all good again??

On the TEFL thing, the company I'd try and get a job for don't even require you to have a TEFL and they are crying out for teachers with English as native language. I would be teaching one on one to people who already know some English but want to improve for their jobs. I know a guy who is doing it as says it is piss easy, you don't even have to know the local language.
 
Any work I would be doing would likely be a bit unofficial, like just being there on a tourist visa and working on the side. Most people I met were doing just that in S. America.
 
effie said:
Go for it if you can get it, but TEFL is fucking hard work to get to a decent stage. My mate did it intensively for several months and still struggled teaching English above basic level.. tis definitely a worthwhile thing, but I'm not sure if a weekend would set you up for a career..?
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I did a weekend TEFL course. Cost 300 quid. There is NO way i'd be confident enough to go and teach abroad dealing with culture shock, and not having enough of their language myself. Not a chance, not after two days. Maybe that's just me, but I do not think a two day course is enough. The learning work was intense, but not there was not enough practical. We had no practical teaching practice, at all.

If I was to choose that route again, I would choose the several month one, no danger. That also costs. A lot.

I would also like to thank the dole for the extra 2.50 a week they have decided to give us that are called dole scum. New tax year ftw. Making my total weekly income 67.50, cheers, that's really going to help me out.
 
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