PUSHY PARENTS OR JUST ME ?
Today's first rant is probs one of my most hateful things ever which is being pushed into things
now you may add being pushed into the right direction is good for a youth like me. well i partly agree if a youth is doing drugs disobeying the law and so on then yes its a must. however when its people mostly parents PUSHING you into a job you do not want to do it gets f***ing annoying, now i been job searching for the past 6 months due to completing a few years at college and i admit its a lot harder then it sounds and i should of done another college course. HOWEVER my parents want me to apply for jobs which most do not want to and its usually people from India who do them, YES TELEPHONE SALES CALL something i will never do unless i am made homeless. other jobs they want me to do include customer service assistant at some place called MBE and warehouse work at amazon. MBE i refused to do purely because it seems like a dead end job. the warehouse at amazon now then there are quite a few rumors and i have spoken to a few people who have worked there apparently a lot of people there are from an Eastern Europe country not saying where but they make good plumbers and are not Italian, anyway since theres a lot of them and not to many natives there. The "East Eu plumbers" apparently bullied some of the people out by simply only speaking EE plumber language , when the managers aren't around and picking on everyone else. also i must add about 5% stay on after Christmas and apparently they are all good plumbers and cheap.
LOVELY JOBBLY
Now then the job center ooh the lovely lovely job center giving money to drug addicts homeless and jobless for many years so yes I'm apart of them (jobless part) and i must say they are bloody useless and i have no idea why i am being penalized for not finding a job. now you may think "well this guy is just lazy" or "everyone thinks that" but really originally you start with £56 a week and have to do 5 job searchs with proof and everything, i personally think its too low but there you go i did that for about 4 months however a month ago it got put up to 10 job searches out of the blue and that's fine by me however 2 weeks ago it got put up again to 40. YES 40 and they don't like repeating in it now i spoken to a few friends of mine one of which had his put up to 30 around the same time and one who has only had to do 5 for the past year now the diffrence is my friend on 30 and myself have done some sort of work experience He did slave labor at pound land which apparently was shit since it was 6 hours standing at the tiny till area and after 2 weeks his back started playing up he also had no break (when ur on work experience from job center you meant to get an hour break.) I myself have done two work experience however they were only two weeks while his was a month. The person with only 5 since a year ago hasn't done any work experiance and right his jobs down on the night before. one of them also told me that someone they know got away with just giving their shopping list in. SO WHY AM I AND MY MATE GETTING A RAW DEAL the money is crap for so much effort they say you can live on it maybe food wise but you will be on the street.
i'm up the job center end of the week with personal adviser who is a nice person but useless like most of them so i hear so we are gonna have a chat about it.
Anyway another thing about the money to druggies center they ask you to use their site which is by far unhelpful the jobs on there aren't really up to date some have been put up on the dead line date so that says it all. i have a theory that they increase the jobs search till people cant keep up and then cut it but then explain why some aren't on 30-45 jobs like me and my mate, sense is not made. its another also moment but also i was told looking for a job is like a full time job and i should spend 32 hours a week looking.
I must add I have had quite a few interviews but no joy i have tried changing my cv and application forms, covering letters, presentation my speaking skills but they either leave me hanging or reply next day saying I'm unsuccessful
Questions if you bother reading and replying
1. do you think people should be pushed into job like telephone sales while they have spent year studying somthing else
2. Is job center worth the hassle
3. Is 30-45 jobs a week to high and 5 too low (i personally think 15 should be appropriate)
4. Is directgov universal job search shit ?
5. Is 32 hours job searching a week too expensive, boring, too much, too unhealthy if you only use a computer
That's me done till next time BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
