JSA advice

[Awesome Wells]

Yes. I just wanted to sweeten the pill a bit. It's like talking to a relative who's been staying with you for a while but you'd like the room and really, he's quite a big boy and these "projects" he wants to do, they're not really coming on, are they? You don't want to seem like you're kicking them out but it is time he got a job and started pulling his own weight. He can do his "projects" at the weekend and in the evenings, after all, and if he needs a bit of help to get a suit for the interview, well, he only needs to ask, but really, enough's enough.

I love these ridiculous rentaquotes.

 

[Fullyplumped]

I got put forward for an interview for a job I didn't want and couldn't pretend to be enthusiastic about with an employer who asked stupid questions such as what is my goal in life. They then used that answer against me by saying that, essentially, because my goal in life wasn't a career in soft furnishings (it was a shop), I was wasting their time. .

You know, I don't really like my job.

I have to go to bed earlier than I'd like and get up in the morning earlier than I'd like, and dress up in quite formal clothes, and spend several hours a day with a mix of people, not all of whom I'd choose to spend time with if it was up to me. Sure, some aspects of my job are interesting and I learn new things all the time, and I do get to do some things that are socially useful, but much of my work involves gathering bits of information, often from people who find it irksome to provide that information, organising them in a way that tells a coherent story, and presenting the results. But all in all it's quite annoying and I'm not as enthusiastic about it as I used to be. On top of that there's the insecurity of needing to maintain a reputation and levels of knowledge that will enable me to continue to keep the work coming in, along with issues to do with my own continuing physical ability and the consequences of the recession. But doing the job I do enables me to be paid a reasonable income which allows me to do things I wouldn't otherwise be able to so, and which enables me to to make a net contribution to a society and economy which depends on tax revenue and economic activity to function. If I win the lottery tonight I would almost certainly retire. But that probably won't happen, and so it'll all start again on Monday. And it's so much better and easier than what my father and mother, and my grandfathers and grandmothers, and those that went before them, did.

Now my point is that hardly anyone really would choose to be a soft furnishings salesperson or a shared services support officer as their goal in life, but if the opportunity exists to do these jobs, it's not the worst thing in the world.

 

[Fullyplumped]

only the OP can know whether the job's for him. If it isn't then he should be supported in finding something that is. That's how I think these matters should be done. Not just the JC arbitrarily forcing people into whatever is on their crappy list at the time. Their lists aren't even representative of what's entirely available, meanwhile everyone who's unemployed and claiming will be put through their doors and subsequently that same list. All of which puts people like the OP into impossible situations.

Hardly anyone gets to do their ideal job. What we get is a tiny amount of money to keep us going until some work comes along, and then we're expected to do whatever work comes along. There's a minimum wage which is slightly better than the dole. This is the adult world and I think you will find most citizens understand and accept that reality. How long should people be funded by other taxpayers till they do find the job that's "for him?" Isn't it reasonable to expect a person who's still looking to do cleaning work. or working as a waiter, till the ideal job comes along? Or is cleaning and waiting only for other people?

 

[Fullyplumped]

I love these ridiculous rentaquotes.

All my own work, I'll have you know.