13 September 2006 Still in Between Jobs
Last one having ended 10 months earlier and desperately hunting for the next one. I wasn’t exactly unemployed. Unemployment is sort of well more permanent, ask anyone from Stock Street they’ll tell ya, we sort of form a line right down into Nielston road for the good old Giro on a Monday. Ain’t fibbing, I know there is now all that huha about direct payments but figure this one out, why open a bank account when all that is ever going to come in is 28.70 every week or two.
Me thinks Halifax and them big banks wont be breaking down your door with offers of current accounts or my favourite (though I don’t yet have it account) the so called "one account
Chances are you will end up with one of those annoying cash card accounts, which don’t buy in shops or offer you any leeway in terms of a little borrowing. So if you have 98p in the account (which would be lucky as we a talking stock street here) and you want to go for one of those burger King 99p burgers ...forgetaboutitmate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not with the cashcard anyway.
I hate the damn things loath them, if I were Prime Minister the things wouldn’t see another light of day. Which brings me back to when I was in between jobs. Woman at the jobcentre asks what type of vacancy I was looking for, (well I wasn’t looking just enjoying being in between, but she didn’t know that did she?) well I wasn’t going to say factory work or cleaning, learnt that from the last time I was jobless
(Yeah jobless, this time there was no in-between pretence, I had lost a job and there was no way anyone would hire me 30 miles from the beloved street)
Well that is before Kelly 'jobcentreplus eager beaver' decided to lend a hand. That very day I left armed with 3 applications 2 of which looked dangerously promising. Had to twick the CV to escape being hired, a jail term here, an assault charge there and a stint at the young offender’s institute did the trick.
Anyhow to cut a long story short my type of vacancies nowadays are professional jobs, prime ministerial office etc that will keep the offers away for some time, but am watching that prime ministerial office one like a hawk. From the way things are looking for the labour party Kelly might be hauling my fat arse back to work pretty soon. Twicking the CV will probably lend me the job after all it takes is a good liar etc better claim to be an honest law abiding church loving anti war supporter if I’m to see the next two years still in between jobs.
