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@Oldskool 434630 wrote:

Have you thought about maybe window cleaning? I reckon there’s some serious cash to me made. Most window cleaners charge £10 per house. 5 houses a day = £50, then take the rest of the day off. Know anyone with a set of ladders and a bucket?

no and some how I dont think the ladders would fit in my Yarris anyway :p

luckily for the moment I am on incapacity so think that’s a bit more than job seekers but not sure how long that will last as they are scrapping incapacity I think.

@General Lighting 434714 wrote:

aren’t they supposed to be helping you find work?

The gov have pulled this really clever trick where the charity that was helping me and knew what they were doing had their funding taken away and told me to bugger off. They did this with the previous charity as well.

There is no help what so ever the job centre are utterly useless and just direct you to the website. Without specialist help form some kind of disability charity or at least someone who has a vague clue its gonna be hard. I wouldn’t employ me put it that way. Why take the risk when there are so many looking for a job.

@p0ly 434717 wrote:

Yeah the job centre is crap at helping you find a job.

I did have this lovely specialist charity who were used to the exact situation I am in and would help me every step of the way. Until that git Cameron got wind of it.

@General Lighting 434722 wrote:

I was gonna suggest trying to get a job with the mental health charity (as presumably they need admin staff etc) but its no good if they have had their funding removed…..

yeah not much hope there 2bh. There must be people who end up ill like me and are never able to find work again, really hope I don’t become one of them. Have a horrible feeling a life on benefits is what awaits though. And given they are doing all they can to cut them that’s going to be even more horrible than it currently is. oh dear me what a mess. No real solution other than to keep looking and perhaps hope that I find someone who has had similar problems with depression and is sympathetic.

@General Lighting 434728 wrote:

I know a lot of people of my age group who are in that situation unfortunately. TBH I had a close call myself with mental health issues in my teens and early 20s and the market is so ruthlessly competitive it is really difficult, many smaller employers simply can’t afford to be “sympathetic” in todays high pressure business environments! Quite often people who weren’t badly ill before develop mental health issues in the workplace due to the pressures.

The public sector used to be a lot better for being sympathetic employers (especially taking on people after long career breaks) but because of this they are seen as “soft” and subject to cuts, and big companies have also had to make a lot of redundancies.

That said I’d try and get as many application forms as possible, not everywhere does pre employment health screening..

even if they don’t screen I will need to explain why I haven’t had a job in 4 years or whatever it is. Its scary, the more I think about it in detail the more it seems like I have no future. Cant seem to think of any solution other than just getting lucky. Its all deeply worrying.