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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 10, 2020 12:40:04 GMT
I'm happy to take a back seat and live on unemployment benefit for a year and half, after which it'll be a seamless transition to early retirement and a few years of boating. Boating without paying marina fees! Yay! Have you actually researched the requirements to receive unemployment benefit Foxy? Unless it's changed from when my mate was unemployed a few years back you'll need to be interviewed regularly to prove you are actively looking for a job. I'm not sure it will be that practical moving around the country but could be wrong? Things are probably different here. When I first moved from Helsinki to here, where 'there is no work' (bus driving jobs are as rare as hens' teeth) the Employment Office suggested I visit once every 5 months to let them know if I had found anything. I am registered with them anyway, with my work contract being for 'only school days' school holidays = technically unemployed. There is hardly much point in looking for another job when work ends on the Friday and starts a week later on the Monday. So during school holidays I just send off the form to the private organisation which pays me my Unemployment Benefit. My work contract is a bit of a peculiar one. I didn't think much of it when I started 6.5 years ago, but just 3 months later we were offered the narrowboat, decided to buy it, and the whole boating lark has fitted in very well with the rythym of my job - a strange co-incidence. Over seven years ago the Employment Office, behind my back, without me knowing, phoned to several bus companies in this region. I knew this because a company actually was offering me a job and told me the EO had called to them (they had said no, they didn't have anything). But the EO found nothing for me. I did not take that job straight away* because I was in Kokkola for a truck driving course test / first look - I spent a couple of hours driving a truck around the town with an instructor and was told I was 'in' as it was obvious I had driven larger vehicles before. As it turned out, as the Monday for the start of the course appoached, I had to phone the EO to ask when and where?! To be told "Oh, we have cancelled that for you, we thought as you had a bus licence it would be better if you drove buses," - despite them themselves finding no bus driving jobs. I remember the Witch laughing and saying "It looks like you'll have another 6 months on the dole!", and so it came to pass. This job I have I dropped into in an unusual way too - just happened to be in the right place at the right moment. *that firm folded anyway about 4 years ago - the owner died, and his son said there was no profit in operating public transport and sold it off.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Apr 10, 2020 12:41:35 GMT
The government doesn't classify me as self employed; it's living off investments. I thought you lived The Life of Riley just fishing off your boat, going kayaking, and once a year off to south-east Asia for a cheap & jolly time. For how many years have you been doing this? Why haven't you been working and putting something into 'the system'? As for me - if the government want me unemployed for the unseeable, then after working for over 40 years and contributing to society I'm happy to take a back seat and live on unemployment benefit for a year and half, after which it'll be a seamless transition to early retirement and a few years of boating. Boating without paying marina fees! Yay! More or less right; 7 years. I pay tax, just like those who are working.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Apr 10, 2020 12:45:23 GMT
Have you actually researched the requirements to receive unemployment benefit Foxy? Unless it's changed from when my mate was unemployed a few years back you'll need to be interviewed regularly to prove you are actively looking for a job. I'm not sure it will be that practical moving around the country but could be wrong? Things are probably different here. When I first moved from Helsinki to here, where 'there is no work' (bus driving jobs are as rare as hens' teeth) the Employment Office suggested I visit once every 5 months to let them know if I had found anything. I am registered with them anyway, with my work contract being for 'only school days' school holidays = technically unemployed. There is hardly much point in looking for another job when work ends on the Friday and starts a week later on the Monday. So during school holidays I just send off the form to the private organisation which pays me my Unemployment Benefit. My work contract is a bit of a peculiar one. I didn't think much of it when I started 6.5 years ago, but just 3 months later we were offered the narrowboat, decided to buy it, and the whole boating lark has fitted in very well with the rythym of my job - a strange co-incidence. Over seven years ago the Employment Office, behind my back, without me knowing, phoned to several bus companies in this region. I knew this because a company actually was offering me a job and told me the EO had called to them (they had said no, they didn't have anything). But the EO found nothing for me. I did not take that job because I was in Kokkola for a truck driving course test / first look - I spent a couple of hours driving a truck around the town with an instructor and was told I was 'in' as it was obvious I had driven larger vehicles before. As it turned out, as the Monday for the start of the course appoached, I had to phone the EO to ask when and where?! To be told "Oh, we have cancelled that for you, we thought as you had a bus licence it would be better if you drove buses," - despite them themselves finding no bus driving jobs. I remember the Witch laughing and saying "It looks like you'll have another 6 months on the dole!", and so it came to pass. This job I have I dropped into in an unusual way too - just happened to be in the right place at the right moment. It does seem to be pretty slack in Finland. My mate Janne works repairing and servicing push bikes for most of the year. In the winter he signs on, the buggers off to Bali for 3 months. Well he did, doubt he'll be doing it again anytime soon.
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 10, 2020 12:56:00 GMT
The Employment Office certainly doesn't chase up the gypsies! Protected species. They are all retired by the age of 16. I had expected to work to 65 and perhaps beyond, more to have some kind of structure to life than for the extra money, and that might still be the case. But life is short, and no amount of wealth will buy you the really important things - yes, of course, it helps to get you into the position for doing those things. All depends what you want, I suppose - my ambitions include things like walking long-distance footpaths, that doesn't cost a lot, and I already have a few tents and sleeping bags and a camera And cycle touring, and the narrowboat, of course (that's too expensive, really, but we'll never get that kind of experience from anywhere else, on our own boat travelling round the country). We have been discussing the possibility of my early retirement over the past 2 or 3 years - and suddenly, BLAM! A form of it is here already with the Covid-19!! I'm sure for many people it's not easy to suddenly slow down or stop entirely, so we're lucky in that we have always had plans/ambitions.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2020 17:47:21 GMT
Some supermarkets are holding open days ... just turn up with I.d. etc and have on the spot interviews ... delivery drivers, shop workers etc.
Puts a bit of bread on the table until the crisis is over ... and gives you something to do ... social life.
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2020 17:56:27 GMT
I can just imagine Ricco working in a supermarket in the current climate - I'd generously give him a day before he physically twatted someone...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2020 18:02:30 GMT
I thought the idea was to avoid supermarkets at this stage.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2020 18:07:05 GMT
I thought the idea was to avoid supermarkets at this stage. As you are here...
Are the UK expert Intelligence Services still going with between 9k and 10k deaths for the virus?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2020 18:09:08 GMT
Yes. This was an Easter special offer.
Obviously the situation is ongoing.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2020 18:16:41 GMT
Whole kegs legs of sheep are also on Easter special offer.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Apr 10, 2020 18:16:48 GMT
I can just imagine Ricco working in a supermarket in the current climate - I'd generously give him a day before he physically twatted someone... Good point, well made. Also, if there are any fit birds there, or pretty well any birds really I won't be able to knob any of them, further frustration. Having said that, I might set myself a little challenge, see how long I can do a job before I get fired. Dogless if you're listening, do you have any links to these open days?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2020 18:37:34 GMT
Morrisons at Bramley (Rotherham) was the one I was looking at but they and the others (Tesco, Asda etc) will no doubt have online ads for stores around the country ... their website and search vacancies. Pickers, stackers, delivery drivers ... and most people seem to cope without inflicting violence ... most Rog
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2020 18:39:56 GMT
I can just imagine Ricco working in a supermarket in the current climate - I'd generously give him a day before he physically twatted someone... Good point, well made. Also, if there are any fit birds there, or pretty well any birds really I won't be able to knob any of them, further frustration. Having said that, I might set myself a little challenge, see how long I can do a job before I get fired. Dogless if you're listening, do you have any links to these open days? I don't really know about this subject but has sex with strangers been banned ? I understand it could possibly be against social distancing guidelines but I thought that only applied to groups of three or more so if you are normal then it should be ok. Could be wrong about that. My MI6 professional conduct guidance forbids this sort of behaviour anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2020 18:42:42 GMT
Working anywhere that has men and women staff affords the opportunity for an enriched social life.
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Post by Jim on Apr 10, 2020 18:54:35 GMT
Good point, well made. Also, if there are any fit birds there, or pretty well any birds really I won't be able to knob any of them, further frustration. Having said that, I might set myself a little challenge, see how long I can do a job before I get fired. Dogless if you're listening, do you have any links to these open days? I don't really know about this subject but has sex with strangers been banned ? I understand it could possibly be against social distancing guidelines but I thought that only applied to groups of three or more so if you are normal then it should be ok. Could be wrong about that. My MI6 professional conduct guidance forbids this sort of behaviour anyway. @riccos gimp suit must be OK, a full body condom.
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