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[podge52]

How many unemployed peeps are going this year and have you told the jobcentre.

[travelling mr pastry]

i was unemployed for the past few months but i managed to get a new job the other day so ive been pretty lucky

[LusciousLucy]

Signing on this Monday and no I wont be telling them as what money I have of my own is being spent there and what business is it of theirs? I got to figure out how to NOT tell them I am also planning to steward at a ton of fests too...

[Ashaz42]

I'm unemployed by choice. I quit my job 'cause I'm going travelling this summer. Gap year and all.

[LusciousLucy]

I'm partly doing it to get the course I want to do in September for free! Mwaahaahaa!

[travelling mr pastry]

what sort of course is it?

[Paul ™]

Employed just now, might not be on the 18th June though...

[LusciousLucy]

Bio Dynamic Farming...gonna learn to drive a traaacccttoooorrr! Get the tuition fees waived if on JSA

[travelling mr pastry]

LusciousLucy, on Jun 7 2009, 03:45 PM, said:

Bio Dynamic Farming...gonna learn to drive a traaacccttoooorrr! Get the tuition fees waived if on JSA

oh lovely, have they started selling biodynamic food in england? i recently moved to oz and it was the first time id heard of the phrase

[LusciousLucy]

travelling mr pastry, on Jun 7 2009, 04:46 PM, said:

oh lovely, have they started selling biodynamic food in england? i recently moved to oz and it was the first time id heard of the phrase

Just come back from there and that is where I heard about it! Gonna be my ticket back...sponsorship and all! Get in! Traaaaaccccttttoooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrssssssssssssss! BD is available over here but it's gonna get a lot bigger as the world food crisis arrives and sweeps the rest of the world of it's feet and us BD types will be left to feed you all! Hah!

[travelling mr pastry]

oh yeah i remember you saying about living in australia...

[LusciousLucy]

travelling mr pastry, on Jun 7 2009, 04:51 PM, said:

oh yeah i remember you saying about living in australia...

Where you then?

[greendotz]

LusciousLucy, on Jun 7 2009, 04:30 PM, said:

what business is it of theirs?

To be fair it's called job-seekers allowance cause you're supposed to be seeking jobs. It's their business cause they like to know if their (our) money isn't going to time wasters. From their point of view your number one priority now is finding a job, not going to glasto (crazy i know ).

I'm not judging you by the way, if I were in your situation I would most definately go to Glasto, just pointing out that they do need to be strict.

[travelling mr pastry]

LusciousLucy, on Jun 7 2009, 03:55 PM, said:

Where you then?

sydney going to uni. its fun having 2 passports

[Chocky]

Job? Aint got time for that, I'm full-time unemployed - y'know 24/7 f**kin 365, just not enough hours in the day for workin

[LusciousLucy]

greendotz, on Jun 7 2009, 04:57 PM, said:

To be fair it's called job-seekers allowance cause you're supposed to be seeking jobs. It's their business cause they like to know if their (our) money isn't going to time wasters. From their point of view your number one priority now is finding a job, not going to glasto (crazy i know ).

I'm not judging you by the way, if I were in your situation I would most definately go to Glasto, just pointing out that they do need to be strict.

Aah, but you cannot be expected to live on their apron strings 24/7...5 days away from the office surrounded by the sadness of the situation of this ridiculous country...and besides...dont you have to turn up every 2 weeks not every week...that's what i read on the website today!

[grumpyhack]

I'm lucky in that I'm in work as a freelance tutor/trainer so I can pick my times off.  It does mean though that when I choose not to work I also don't earn any money.

I've done quite a lot of work training people who are unemployed and have several friends who are out of work so I sympathise.

Everyone, including those out of work should be allowed a bit of pleasure and what better restorative is there than Glasto.

[travelling mr pastry]

LusciousLucy, on Jun 7 2009, 05:02 PM, said:

Aah, but you cannot be expected to live on their apron strings 24/7...5 days away from the office surrounded by the sadness of the situation of this ridiculous country...and besides...dont you have to turn up every 2 weeks not every week...that's what i read on the website today!

when i signed on it was every week you had to go there and you got your money every fortnight

[pie_and_a_pint]

greendotz, on Jun 7 2009, 04:57 PM, said:

To be fair it's called job-seekers allowance cause you're supposed to be seeking jobs. It's their business cause they like to know if their (our) money isn't going to time wasters. From their point of view your number one priority now is finding a job, not going to glasto (crazy i know ).

I'm not judging you by the way, if I were in your situation I would most definately go to Glasto, just pointing out that they do need to be strict.

Absolutely.  JSA is kept at a subsistence level so it is just that - a level on which you can live, but not pay for holidays etc. Although the majority of jobseekers are indeed seeking a job, there are a small minority who abuse the system and make it very difficult for people who are genuinely signing on becuase they genuinely can't get a job to be believed.  Everyone on JSA is entitled to take an annual holiday, of course, although the jobcentre staff may, quite rightly, ask questions as to where the money is coming from - sadly, while you are claiming state benefits it IS their business (and ours!) to ask where it's being spent!

[Rachie]

first festival for many many years im actually employed this time.