And i have no moral support to really offer. Alright, first thing is first, i admit i am an asshole. i have spent months on end with no work, and no prospects of the same, but at the same time to one degree or another i did have two things, my family and my pride. The first big window of unemployment for me was when i had just been medically discharged from the Marine Corps, and by five months later when i had found no work, and had few if any prospects i promised myself i would return to my parents house if by Christmas i hadn't found a job. Then at the beginning of December that year i received a call back, and then a job offer to start with the new year. I lasted 6 weeks before i was laid off for lack of performance. I had been hired as a diesel and hydraulics mechanic and they had me manually assembling oversized bicycle chains for mobile drill rigs. then i spent a couple of weeks job hunting and practically stole a job from a fleet maintenance group to do maintenance on airfield equipment, after 6 weeks there i had everything lined out and scheduled to where a monkey could do the daily maintenance and then they let me go as unneeded. As of Mother's day that year i came home and was handed a job by a friend of my father's driving a shuttle bus at the airport. Then came a little legal trouble that cost me that job and almost a year and a half of my freedom, plus probation. Once i was free of prison it was back to the parents and looking for ANY work i could find, no matter how nasty. i only had one requirement, that i not have to work with my father, because we would have either killed each other or his boss. A year and a half of temp agency placements, 2 weeks here, 6 weeks out of work, two weeks there, another six weeks out of work before finally i found someplace that i stayed at for about six years. This last march they fired me while i was in the process of dealing with my mother's death. A month later i had found another job through the temp agency and am there now. Americans cannot say there is no work, there is just work they are not willing to "lower" themselves to do.
edit: my point being is that i have no sympathy for people who are kicked off their dole simply because they cannot even be bothered to make the false pretense of looking for work by calling companies and seeing if they are hiring, boo bloody whoo
edit: my point being is that i have no sympathy for people who are kicked off their dole simply because they cannot even be bothered to make the false pretense of looking for work by calling companies and seeing if they are hiring, boo bloody whoo