Is currently under house arrest!
Well, that’s what it feels like.
The government has given me 52 GBP (still no pound sign on this laptop, it also says the time is 9.01pm) to live on each week. An OK amount, but you have to not do anything to survive on it.
Every morning I walk to the job centre to check on jobs; a good 3 mile walk to make sure I get out of the flat at least once in a day.
But you can’t grab a coffee out and read a book for an hour; you can’t grab a pint or 2 or even buy the Guardian daily. You are left with the option of going for a walk (not a bad thing when the sun is shining and you live in Brighton) or you can sit back at home and try not to eat everything in the flat.
I have applied for jobs; 32 to date. 1 job had 456 applications; another 206! So I keep applying for anything I want to do, can handle doing or anything. The problem I have is that I am over qualified for a lot of the jobs on offer or underqualified for others. In a recession I am double fucked, my skills are in recruitment (one of the 1st things to go in a recession) and I recruit for marketing people (the 2nd thing to go)…..
Anyway, I will keep you posted what happens with work, but if any of you hear of anything let me know. Ideally I want something that will allow me to retrain in a digital marketing/web design/web development type role, get some experience and jump on that plane back downunder.