Your typical unemployed day

Amp34 said:
Because any meaningful amount means you lose your JSA claim...

Also unless the volunteering is completely free and close to home you will need to pay fuel/clothing etc from money you don't have.
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Hm, I'd have my doubts about those excuses.

A) Losing your jobseekers allowance over voluntary/charity work seems highly unlikely (unless you're doing so many hours that you have no time left to look for paid work - not a very likely situation though...).

B) If it really is far enough that you need to use public transport/fuel then theres a fair chance you'd be able to claim for that.

Volunteer work is a great idea, since not only does it keep you occupied and out of the house (good for your mental health) but you never know you may meet a potential employer. Or a hot girl ;)

Not saying I'd expect people to do it. Probably wouldn't myself tbh. But just pointing out that your excuses are a bit invalid.
 
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for a good few months my day used to consist of...

get up around 10
bowl of wheetos
start up wow
tea around 5pm while playing wow
wow
12/1am bed.

once every 2 weeks slot in go to job center to sign on.
 
Get up at 7am, have breakfast take tablets for my epilepsy:( at 9am, might go for coffee and browse the ladies;) come back home watch a little tv and check email, at about 6 pm i take my tablets for my depression:(, try and chill out some more at about 8pm more tablets then at 9pm even more tablets for my epilepsy, by this time im rattling and zonked out.:mad:
 
10am - get up, shower, eat
11am - go to the gym
1pm - lunch
1:30-6pm - job search/xbox/browse the interwebs
6pm - dinner
7pm - 11/12 - browse + film/xbox/css/boredom/wish i had a job/wish my bike hadnt been stolen/cry/comfort food/cry/fap


:(
 
seek said:
Hm, I'd have my doubts about yhose excuses.

A) Losing your jobseekers allowance over voluntary/charity work seems highly unlikely.

B) If it really is far enough that you need to use public transport/fuel then theres a fair chance you'd be able to claim for that.
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When I looked into it it wasn't worth me doing it as the 4 weeks I was on JSA would have meant I lost it if doing more than one day a week (I think). That one day would probably have been working in a shop as well, which would also affect your claim.

It was one of the first things I looked into when I went to sign on.

The other issue is that I wouldn't want to work with kids, which sort of destroys most people chances of volunteering. The only other option was to spend on day a month max working with the local environmental charity. If you live closer to places that actually do volunteer work then maybe but for a lot of people the only chance they have is with kids or old people...

Either way I didn't claim JSA from June (graduated) to September, signed on in September and got a christmas temp job in October, received my first JSA cheque in November... (I'd signed off when I got the job). January I was unemployed again and didn't sign on... Luckily I actually had some money from the christmas job and could do things for a few months... Now I'm heading off to volunteer in another country for a month then heading to Uni again to do a Masters (which is why I am now not really looking for jobs). Just means I have another few weeks of doing essentially nothing... :(

Oh and another issue with min wage jobs (at least what I found). It's not necessarily doing the job that is the issue, it's what it (may) mean. Especially for a graduate who has high hopes having just come out of uni, unfortunately at the wrong time, a permenant job like that is soul destroying but also, more importantly, a worrying indication of the future. How many people do you know of that were apparently going to go far but ended up working in a dead end job for a few months, which turned into a few years, which turned into 20...
 
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Especially for a graduate who has high hopes having just come out of uni, unfortunately at the wrong time, a permenant job like that is soul destroying but also, more importantly, a worrying indication of the future. How many people do you know of that were apparently going to go far but ended up working in a dead end job for a few months, which turned into a few years, which turned into 20..
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Bah, graduates should expect their first job to be cleaning toilets with a toothbrush. The only difference a degree makes is that it won't stay that way.

The problem is most students seem to think their first job is going to be something way above that, so instead of doing some good honest work, they go on the dole and complain about how they deserve so much better.

Reminds me of withnail.. "A trained X, reduced to the states of a bum!".

Quit your whining and go get yourself a healthy dose of reality.


/\ Not aimed at any specific person here btw.
 
Amp34 said:
That's what long term unemployment does to you folks... Motivation goes byebye...:(
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Yup, and confidence. Been in/out of jobs for a while now. My day consists of waking up between 9-11, and do whatever i have planned for that day, I try to apply for jobs every day if I find something. Normally i'd only apply for something I wanted to do, and was picky..looking for more of a 'career' starter. Now i'm just applying for anything within IT that I can ideally. It's a start I guess.
 
utajoker said:
for a good few months my day used to consist of...

get up around 10
bowl of wheetos
start up wow
tea around 5pm while playing wow
wow
12/1am bed.

once every 2 weeks slot in go to job center to sign on.
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If you are not joking then I feel sorry for you. I have applied to a few more jobs online today. Tomorrow morning i'm having my 'interview' at job seekers. Best iron my favourite wife beater and have the special brew in the fridge so I can fit in :o
 
I recently graduated and am effectively dossing around each day doing odd jobs.

However, I am job hunting and have had a few interviews over the past months and have another on Monday. Shame they've mainly been in finance when I'm really looking for oil & gas jobs :(.

I am looking for a temp job at the moment to give me a little spending money whilst I'm at home and have actually got someone coming round to the house tomorrow to talk be a about a catalogue delivery job - we'll see how that goes.
 
seek said:
Bah, graduates should expect their first job to be cleaning toilets with a toothbrush. The only difference a degree makes is that it won't stay that way.

The problem is most students seem to think their first job is going to be something way above that, so instead of doing some good honest work, they go on the dole and complain about how they deserve so much better.

Reminds me of withnail.. "A trained X, reduced to the states of a bum!".

Quit your whining and go get yourself a healthy dose of reality.


/\ Not aimed at any specific person here btw.
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Problem is once you've had a year out of uni without a relevant job you're pretty much screwed if you want to get into anything specific. Yeah if you did media studies and wanted an office job then a couple of years after you'd be fine getting a job. Those in the scienced and engineering, totally different (this coming from discussions with some fairly high up people in these industries).

Not saying you shouldn't get a part time job (I got one) but that if you are trying to get into a specialist job you really need to push to get that job as quick as possible as if you have no relevent experience in the year between graduating and the next batch graduating you're pretty much screwed...

However to be perfectly honest I had kind of hoped after uni I wouldn't end up in exactly the same type of job I left to go to uni (specifically cleaning other peoples sweat of of gym equipment...).
 
sh4rk said:
I recently graduated and am effectively dossing around each day doing odd jobs.

However, I am job hunting and have had a few interviews over the past months and have another on Monday. Shame they've mainly been in finance when I'm really looking for oil & gas jobs :(.

I am looking for a temp job at the moment to give me a little spending money whilst I'm at home and have actually got someone coming round to the house tomorrow to talk be a about a catalogue delivery job - we'll see how that goes.
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Good luck finding an O&G job, it's what I've been trying to get into for the last year... Things are apparently looking up though (but then that has been said for around 2 years) and there are jobs out there, they are just very hard to find as there are usually only about 1 a week or so being put up (for graduates anyway).
 
Amp34 said:
Good luck finding an O&G job, it's what I've been trying to get into for the last year... Things are apparently looking up though (but then that has been said for around 2 years) and there are jobs out there, they are just very hard to find as there are usually only about 1 a week or so being put up (for graduates anyway).
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Yeah it's not great, hence I've had much more luck applying for finance/analyst/consultancy jobs, but my real passion/drive is for the O&G industry.

I was unfortunately mucked around by a company so didn't/couldn't apply for jobs until the middle of February, at which point most positions had gone. Also it was slow progress finding and applying for jobs in the last semester of my final year which didn't help.
 
Amp34 said:
Problem is once you've had a year out of uni without a relevant job you're pretty much screwed if you want to get into anything specific. Yeah if you did media studies and wanted an office job then a couple of years after you'd be fine getting a job. Those in the scienced and engineering, totally different (this coming from discussions with some fairly high up people in these industries).

Not saying you shouldn't get a part time job (I got one) but that if you are trying to get into a specialist job you really need to push to get that job as quick as possible as if you have no relevent experience in the year between graduating and the next batch graduating you're pretty much screwed...

However to be perfectly honest I had kind of hoped after uni I wouldn't end up in exactly the same type of job I left to go to uni (specifically cleaning other peoples sweat of of gym equipment...).
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Wow Amp34 I must say your experience and insight match exactly with mine as you may have noticed in other threads I always agree with your posts regarding job hunting.
As I mentioned before if you are a fresh graduate especially a science/engineering graduate you are immediately blocked and damned. Also I so much hear about degree skills being transferable especially technical degrees; but to me it is b##l****. My engineering degree (aerospace) hasn't helped me one bit in looking for like airline jobs, officework, cad design, mechanical engineering design jobs etc. I wonder if I can go staight in accountancy jobs with engineering degree or if I need to do another accountancy degree?:(
 
Wake up at 3pm

Get ready very slowly

Turn on pc and browse / maybe game a little

Go out with other unemployed friends

Return and browse / game some more until stupid time in the morning

Bed
 
I spent most of my day today cleaning my cars, I also drove my dad a couple of times for his job (collecting a car from its MOT).

I got what could be a fairly promising job prospect yesterday, I won't get my hopes up though.
 
Play games all day, watch series&films all day and fapfapfap, what I used to do in the past during school holidays.

I agree though, work oddly makes you feel very happy, I wouldn't know what to do even without my basic TNT post job... In the holidays anyhow, still got uni in the mornings.
 
8am get up
9am-12pm Gym (walk there and back so 3 hours :( )
12pm Lunch
12:30pm-5pm Wonder where it all went wrong
5pm-6pm cook me mar some decent tea
6pm-sleep Wonder where all the motivation went

Fell asleep at 6pm today for some reason so can't sleep now :(
 
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