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Preaching to the converted I'd say! Didn't/don't we have quite a few of our lads doing degrees and such at Carnegie?

If Scott Naylor can’t get a job then that just confirms that I’m terminally unemployed. I’m considering printing that article so I can finally convince my new deal advisor that I’m unemployable and therefore should be pensioned off. Not that I want to be but I’m a waste of job centre resources.

On another note I blame competition for the unemployment problem.

Locally Jamie Hanley (standing for Pudsey) recently sent round a propaganda piece which was all about why Labour is better than the Tories. He didn’t have a good word to say about the other parties.

All that’s coming from Jamie Hanley is that if he doesn’t get in Pudsey will go downhill. The feeling I get from this bloke is he'd leave me to starve in the street if I didn't vote for him.

I feel an urge to complain actually.

Who’d vote for me?

I can’t even get a job never mind getting to be an MP. We live in a society that’s obsessed by past experience and I have little to show in that department. I’m more about creating experience rather than living off of it like most candidates will be doing.

Nice excuse.

There are lots of jobs out there, you just probably think they are beneath you and THAT is the society we live in.

The problem is - as I see it - work is out there; just that working might actually impact on Damo's social life.

Damo priority isn't finding any job, he wants a particular job - one which he simply isn't qualified for or simply doesn't exist.

A reality check is required; as a tax payer paying towards unemployment - people like Damo p1ss me off. Why am I working to pay taxes to supporting him; why - because he cannot get off his backside and take any kind of employment - being unemployed should be a last resort not a lifestyle choice.

Damo get off your backside and take any job offered not matter what.

The folks who come over from Eastern Europe seem to get on ok at finding jobs

Back on topic (I could care less about Damo's self pity and "Look at me" post).

It is a bit sad that legends in our game face this life but I have to agree with McLaren Field. It should come as no surprise to them that they will likely not have a living from rugby after 35 years old.

Just remind me again, you had a job didn't you ?

A trial at Asda that you walked out of because you didn't think any further into the future than the six week trial and got into a tantrum because you were on JSA instead of an hourly rate ?

Have you ever stopped and wondered what you'd be doing now if you hadn't stomped your foot and walked out of the trial ? Even on minimum wage you'd be doing a easy job and earning £200 a week and for a lad who lives at home with no outgoings thats £200 a week more than I get.

You had a chance, you blew it out.

I’ve done the bottom of the bottom before so don’t give me that nonsense that things are beneath me. Ok I made the mistake of leaving that job for the stupid reason that I was missing England. But I shouldn’t be punished for the rest of my life for making the wrong choice.

It seems like that I am been punished for making such a choice now though.



That may have been a case last year but isn’t now thanks to not having a season ticket to honour and the novelty of clubbing drying up a bit. I dropped my season ticket this season because I felt that not attending most games would improve my employment chances when in reality nothing has change.

Last game I attended was one against the Bulls. Last night out I had was Friday night I think. Apart from that nigh I haven’t been out for a few weeks.



Care to ask my New Deal Advisor what jobs I’ve applied for?

I’m terminally unemployed and that is that.