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wanna come off shore mark? if so iv'e a number you can call and have a chat its a trainee role but starts at £17,000 2 weeks on 2 off
giss a job... go on...
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Medical retirement sucks. Unless they find a miracle cure I am already on the scrap heap. As said above, tightening the purse strings, live within your means and get by. You can't take it with you so enjoy what you have.
poweredbypies
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I feel lucky I have a job at the mo. Work 34 hours a week (actually at work now) only do 3 days as well. I am in the middle of a 17 hour shift mind.
silverclaws
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Very few will employ me, Asperger's you see, employers don't want to know, so it looks like voluntary work until I get my confidence back, then perhaps try again, try to start my own enterprise again. I tried last year, but failed, surviving on no food as the money for food was buying materials didn't work. But the Joke centre are strangely very understanding, which is odd.
But so much time off, boredom is the killer, and I am so bored I even quit smoking for something to do.
But so much time off, boredom is the killer, and I am so bored I even quit smoking for something to do.
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I know the feeling, Silverclaws. Job interviews are a disaster, so I've been unemployed for years too.
However my current employer was specifically looking for someone like me and let me prove my capabilities instead of talking about them.
However my current employer was specifically looking for someone like me and let me prove my capabilities instead of talking about them.
silverclaws
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Interviews are no problem, every interview I have ever had, I got the job, it's after the problems come when employer discovers what being an aspie means. Mind I have always taken jobs well below my abilities.
But it says something when the joke centre is not being nasty, is it the state of the employment market or they know damned well I am stuffed in terms of job applications as fine yes, aspie diagnosis answered lots of questions and helped me get out of my depression, but the diagnosis is a death sentence in terms of job applications and one has to declare it, contractual agreements always ask if one has anything which might affect their performance in the job, sign as not having, when it is found out, which it will be, that is a sackable offence. Been there on that one.
There are some employers that specifically seek aspies Goldman Sachs is one of them, but I am a mechanic and metal worker, not a number cruncher and if anything has to do with dressing smart, well, that is me stuffed.
But it says something when the joke centre is not being nasty, is it the state of the employment market or they know damned well I am stuffed in terms of job applications as fine yes, aspie diagnosis answered lots of questions and helped me get out of my depression, but the diagnosis is a death sentence in terms of job applications and one has to declare it, contractual agreements always ask if one has anything which might affect their performance in the job, sign as not having, when it is found out, which it will be, that is a sackable offence. Been there on that one.
There are some employers that specifically seek aspies Goldman Sachs is one of them, but I am a mechanic and metal worker, not a number cruncher and if anything has to do with dressing smart, well, that is me stuffed.
LGF
There's plenty of people in the same boat - even over there...
I consider myself lucky... although most of my weeks are 55 - 60 hours but paid for only 40, I am relatively safe as there is currently too much work in my industry... and no I'm not a debt collector.
Unfortunately, it's a time for battoning down the hatches and cutting ones cloth accordingly...
There's a ticking timebomb waiting to go off when interest rates have to start increasing. It will make the recession in the early nineties look like childsplay. There are thousands of households across the country that can just about manage on their fixed term mortgages at the moment, bung a couple of percent on their next fixed term (if they can get one - with the equity they have in the property) and payments will go up considerably.
And they are the lucky ones... if you cant grab a fixed rate, you'll end up marooned on standard variable rate! Proper up the creek without the proverbial...
Sorry if this has depressed anyone...
There's plenty of people in the same boat - even over there...
I consider myself lucky... although most of my weeks are 55 - 60 hours but paid for only 40, I am relatively safe as there is currently too much work in my industry... and no I'm not a debt collector.
Unfortunately, it's a time for battoning down the hatches and cutting ones cloth accordingly...
There's a ticking timebomb waiting to go off when interest rates have to start increasing. It will make the recession in the early nineties look like childsplay. There are thousands of households across the country that can just about manage on their fixed term mortgages at the moment, bung a couple of percent on their next fixed term (if they can get one - with the equity they have in the property) and payments will go up considerably.
And they are the lucky ones... if you cant grab a fixed rate, you'll end up marooned on standard variable rate! Proper up the creek without the proverbial...
Sorry if this has depressed anyone...
greenstiles
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When i got let go after xmas, i thought, ok panic stations go get any old job to help pay the bills (the wife works thank god, she has had the up n downs with work too)......but had a long chat with wife. Recession is happening and it is better for me not to work now and volunteer with as many charities as poss and accept the free training on offer in the county to volunteers (about 15 related day courses !!! so in a year i will have had enough actual hands on and training to put myself forward in the world of, homeless, mental health,drug/alcohol ready to grap a job in that area.......and because all of those things are on the increase, there seems to be vacancies a plenty if you have some experience etc.
So we have just applied for tax credits as our wages this year have taken a tumble.
Working it out, i /we paid our income tax and VAT last year (and before) so if they want to gve some of that back to us this year, i'm not going to say no or feel like a sponger.
Come the end of the year i should be re-trained to do a job that i could not before, so that's time well spent i say.
Money is / has been very very very tight at times, but were looking long term, so short suffering is ok.
So we have just applied for tax credits as our wages this year have taken a tumble.
Working it out, i /we paid our income tax and VAT last year (and before) so if they want to gve some of that back to us this year, i'm not going to say no or feel like a sponger.
Come the end of the year i should be re-trained to do a job that i could not before, so that's time well spent i say.
Money is / has been very very very tight at times, but were looking long term, so short suffering is ok.
silverclaws
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Greenstiles, good thinking regards the voluntary work, yes, the training is useful, if you are good with people. Myself regarding voluntary work I will be seeking to help get my confidence back after five years out of work, I am hoping to find mechanical work, where the only thing I need to talk to and otherwise communicate with are inanimate objects, machines, as I will soon annoy people if I am put with them. The only thing that is of a concern, is all my past certification is out of date, and although I can do, I no longer have valid paperwork, so wonder if I will be allowed to do perhaps the only thing I can do, fix machines.
But otherwise, am single no kids and no property, oh yeah and permanently skint, but I know how to live to cheap.
But otherwise, am single no kids and no property, oh yeah and permanently skint, but I know how to live to cheap.
