Jobcentre bastards!

[Edie]

Yeah, I suppose so, otherwise you'd never be able to save for anything I guess. I just always thought you had to have nothing to sign on.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

I thought it was £3000

 

[stereotypical]

When you're on the dole, what do you actually do with your time?

If I was on the dole, I'd just spend the whole day watching TV and eating crisps. Might post on urban occasionally to break up the day.

Yoga, lift weights, poi, reading (read half the bloody local library), teach myself spanish/website design/origami, watch films, get pissed, go out and get pissed, chat up women, smoke dope, doss about on the internet, go for a walk, wank, listen to tunes, sign on

 

[Hi-ASL]

I'd pribobly just lie about on the couch eating loads of posh, expensive food from Marks and Sparks watching Sky TV as I plan my next holiday and stick two fingers up at all the workers.

 

[scifisam]

My signing on time was 9.10, which meant that I had to pay to send my daughter to breakfast club at school because I couldn't make it otherwise. That was annoying. (But I'm working again now. )

Oh, and my days were always very full, partly because I have a daughter and a band. I also did up the flat and got lots of things done that I'd had to keep putting off while I was working. My particular job applications also took a very long time to fill in and I spent a day a week taking CVs round to agencies and the like. It's really not that hard to find productive things to do when you're not working.

 

[Hi-ASL]

It's also remarkably easy to find pointless things to do. Periods of unemployment are the ideal time for embarking on 'projects'.

 

[skunkboy69]

When you're on the dole, what do you actually do with your time?

If I was on the dole, I'd just spend the whole day watching TV and eating crisps. Might post on urban occasionally to break up the day.

I decorated my familys houses,did volunteer work in a hospice and looked after my kids,school runs etc.Much better and rewarding than working