I do all I can, and apply for jobs, 5-10 a day....and employers are rude
I find it hard to believe that you apply for so many jobs for so many months and you are still unemployed! You have applied for probably hundreds of jobs now!
Are you actually qualified or trained to do the jobs you are applying for? Do you apply for jobs out of your reach and hoping to get lucky? There ARE plenty of jobs out there, you must be doing something wrong!
Depending on the agreement with the dole, all people are set a number of jobs that MUST be applied for, otherwise, your money is stopped. When you go to Dole School, which you MUST attend, otherwise your money is stopped, to use their slow crappy, virus ridden computers, with no access to email, as you can't upload your CV to the computer, so must cc in an email from a previous email that you sent and paste copy, but they use the free online versions, so the text is corrupted in the conversion. So has to be reformatted.
These dole schools then check any outgoing mail to potential employers, and ring any email contact to make sure you have applied...
So main jobs available within 60 miles of my area, are nail technician, dental drill repairer, or eyebrow threading? or maybe a 360 degree machine technician.
Apart from that, as posted above if you want to work for the community, in charity, you are not allowed, as not looking for work, but then the dole sends you to work in charity shops 9-5 5 days a week...there is no clarity.
The employers are rude, because you say, I'm a computer/TV engineer with 20 years experience, and I would love an opportunity working in your factory gutting fish, as I believe that the experience would expand my career....
They write back...(possibly 1 time in 10)....are you taking the pee?...the other 9 times they don't respond...But if the unemployed DON'T apply for jobs totally unsuitable...money stopped.
I've actually got a moral issue; my partners brother is in hospital, after a heart attack, but he don't claim dole, as he is too unwell to attend dole school, but fit enough (according to the doctors), fit enough to be job seeking....he's on a life support system, and is due to be farmed off to some carehome, do I take him in, with him having no income? Or allow him to go into some carehome? What carehome? For elderly people? He's 51...If I take him in, then I lose my benefits, and he has no income to buy food, but where else will he go? An old folks home???
Nobody cares..just get on, ignore those worse off, and get on with life. FEKK them, as it don't concern me. Where does he stand?