Have U been On JMA??

coolpunkskater · 2 Oct 2007 at 11:05

Hi all am being made to go on JMA (Jobseekers Challenge)
has anyone else been on it? and does it realy help you back to work????

helmet · 2 Oct 2007 at 11:21

Looks like the challenge is in the name. MA an abbreviation of Challenge?
Only proven thing to help you back to work is you.

coolpunkskater · 2 Oct 2007 at 11:29

helmet said:
Looks like the challenge is in the name. MA an abbreviation of Challenge?
Only proven thing to help you back to work is you.

LoL it not me stoping myslef going to work its the lack of jobs here its all office work and am hands on work

Cuchulain · 2 Oct 2007 at 11:30

coolpunkskater said:
LoL it not me stoping myslef going to work its the lack of jobs here its all office work and am hands on work

A jobs a job and regardless of whether it's what you want to do it's better than scrounging off the state.

badbob · 2 Oct 2007 at 11:31

Cuchulain said:
A jobs a job and regardless of whether it's what you want to do it's better than scrounging off the state.

lol. I'd rather be on the dole than a toilet cleaner, road sweeper or dust man.

coolpunkskater · 2 Oct 2007 at 11:33

badbob said:
lol. I'd rather be on the dole than a toilet cleaner, road sweeper or dust man.

Been toilet cleaner not done road sweeper and would not mind dustbin man job (sent off App forum to be one) as there on good money

Cuchulain · 2 Oct 2007 at 11:35

badbob said:
lol. I'd rather be on the dole than a toilet cleaner, road sweeper or dust man.

That's probably because you have no work ethic. If I lost my job today, I'd do whatever job was available to support my family.

nikebee · 2 Oct 2007 at 11:37

badbob said:
lol. I'd rather be on the dole than a toilet cleaner, road sweeper or dust man.

Although you'd be surprised that the money is supposed to be quite good for the later two.

Money is money, if you need to survive then any job that pays is is surely worth doing? (Obviously within reason here)

badbob · 2 Oct 2007 at 11:46

And be totally miserable every day in the job. No thanks. Perhaps if my name was Forrest Gump then I would know that is all I could ever achieve.

Stretch · 2 Oct 2007 at 11:51

badbob said:
And be totally miserable every day in the job. No thanks. Perhaps if my name was Forrest Gump then I would know that is all I could ever achieve.

And look what happened to forest.

"He who's stupid wins"

kaiowas · 2 Oct 2007 at 11:52

badbob said:
And be totally miserable every day in the job. No thanks.

If that's what it takes to get back on your feet then yes. You do whatever you need to to keep the money coming in whilst looking for something better.

Picky ******* like you are symbolic of everything that's wrong with this country.

furnace · 2 Oct 2007 at 11:53

nikebee said:
Although you'd be surprised that the money is supposed to be quite good for the later two.

Is it really though? It's one of those things that have struck me as a bit of a myth. Considering the average wage in the UK is £23k, "quite good" pay would have to be more than that, really. Or is it only 'quite good' because you'd expect it to be less - so it seems good in comparison to what you'd expect..?

badbob · 2 Oct 2007 at 11:55

kaiowas said:
If that's what it takes to get back on your feet then yes. You do whatever you need to to keep the money coming in whilst looking for something better.

Picky ******* like you are symbolic of everything that's wrong with this country.

So what is your job exactly? I'd take a wager certainly not a janitor... :rolleyes:

yet expect others to take any job. I bet you wouldn't either when it comes to it.

yup... "Freelance PHP Dev"

Stretch · 2 Oct 2007 at 11:56

kaiowas said:
If that's what it takes to get back on your feet then yes. You do whatever you need to to keep the money coming in whilst looking for something better.

Picky ******* like you are symbolic of everything that's wrong with this country.

Tbh it's not his fault. If the allowance wasn't such a comfortable living then people would have to work. If the “free” money’s available why not take it?

platypus · 2 Oct 2007 at 11:56

Have to say, I'd never be a cleaner/road sweeper/refuse technician.

Stretch · 2 Oct 2007 at 11:58

platypus said:
Have to say, I'd never be a cleaner/road sweeper/refuse technician.

It's not until you've done a "better" job that you realise how good the "bad" jobs are.

furnace · 2 Oct 2007 at 11:59

badbob said:
yup... "Freelance PHP Dev"

Wrong person

platypus · 2 Oct 2007 at 12:06

Stretch said:
It's not until you've done a "better" job that you realise how good the "bad" jobs are.

Well, if I were to lose my job I would have enough money to survive for several months until I found another "good" job. Having spent the amount I have on my education, I think thats fair enough tbh.

kaiowas · 2 Oct 2007 at 12:10

badbob said:
So what is your job exactly? I'd take a wager certainly not a janitor... yet expect others to take any job. I bet you wouldn't either when it comes to it.

yup... "Freelance PHP Dev"

I have a decent job now but I've done pretty crap stuff in the past. During my uni days I worked in various factories doing tedious repetitive line work that would have been better suited to a machine.

When I came out of uni I did manual labour in a pet shop (where I was bossed about by my younger brother who dropped out of school at 16) whilst I looked for a job with which I could start a career.

If I was made redundant tomorrow I'd make damn sure I was in some sort of job by the end of the week. I'm not too proud to get my hands dirty to keep the money coming in.

helmet · 2 Oct 2007 at 12:12

It is a challenge after all to get people to talk about JMA.