Good on yer D!!

Well, if that ain't a kick in the collective nuts for all those sanctimonious, thatcherite bottom-wipes who've made sundry disparaging remarks over your lack of employment over the years and pontificated that you should be sweeping the streets or flipping burgers at maccas and be bloody thankful for it as well. Of course, the supreme irony being that those disparaging remarks came mainly from those who spend inordinate amounts of time telling anyone who might listen just how important they are, how important their cosy little sinecure is whilst spending even longer amounts of time logged into rlfans at work, bludging a wage and producing nothing of value. They've never done a hard days work in their lives and they've certainly never done anything that benefits anyone else apart from themselves and their immediate family.

Well done and good luck with the project.

RESPECT DAMO!

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Sincerely good luck to you.

Great work as ever, hold his feet to the flames.

Won't be long before Emma Harrison will be beating a path to your door.

Am I missing something or does this not smack of Napaoleon Dynamite's 'talents'? What talents are you going to podcast that could lead to somebody getting a job?

I get images of kids doing bad sci-fi cartoons and holding them up to a camera, hoping to get a job as newsreader on the back of it.

Damo, I've had the odd disagreement with you about your posts on employment and benefits culture in the past. Either you've changed a bit or I mis-judged you, for which I apologise.

Good to see you turning your creativity (?!?!) to something other than lists of reasons Leeds are better than Saints.

Hope you get the backing you need.

Girls only like guys who have great skills. Like bow hunting skills.

To be fair though, at least some of this has to be about getting kids something they can get involved with. That alone looks better to me when I look at job applications than just sitting around waiting for things to happen. I agree that these kids are going to need some guidance on content if it really is going t enhance their career prospects, but surely it's better to be involved in this sort of project than sit around getting bored and depressed doing nothing?

Also featured in the Beyond Guardian Leeds blog beyondgdnleeds.wordpress.com/ Good luck finding work

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Great news Damo...all the best!

I know it shouldn’t be but this is the most pleasing comment so far. We should even fine tune this comment along the lines of ‘This is project is a kick in the collective nuts’.. to put as a statement on the soon to be established website. However I don’t want to have an all consuming lifelong grudge against these people otherwise I’d be ranting online all day without getting any work done. The people who’ve really made a point over the years are a very few thankfully. Although there’s many who’ve made the odd comment in the heat of the moment before - just as we all make comments in heat of the moment.

Thanks for the well wishes and respect to you too!



Cheers pal



Thanks mate.

I’ll be doing my best to see that Emma Harrison honours are stripped (in my own time and won’t be focussing on it too much) for the way she has abused the unemployed. I’ll also be lobbying (via my local MP hopefully) within government to make sure she’s not allowed to enjoy any future success that this country may have with helping the unemployed. She doesn’t deserve to jump on the bandwagon after all the bad she’s done.

Since we’re on the topic. I think the job centre has lost it’s way thanks to all these parasites like a4e been around. But I have faith that the job centre will become a decent organisation once again as the staff I’ve spoke to agree with what I say and would like to go in a direction that benefits those who want to find work and not those who want to spend a life on benefits.

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I will respond to others later as I’m pressed for time at the moment.

I’ll be leaving the talent side to people who are a lot more talented than myself. I’m currently in negotiations with a mate in Italy -
Good to see you turning your creativity (?!?!) to something other than lists of reasons Leeds are better than Saints.

I must be missing something also. All I can get in my head is 100 jobs applied for. I hope that is incorrect, because 100 in that time period in this climate, is sheer laziness. People out there, especially the ones he's trying to make out he want's to help out here, who have been applying for thousands of jobs without success. Your story looks embarrasing to those.

I would suggest that if you're applying for "thousands" of jobs, you're probably not being selective enough. There really is no point in applying for something you're blatantly unsuited to, and I can't believe there are literally thousands of job descriptions that most people would read and genuinely say "ooh, yeah, that sounds like me."

When there’s people more qualified, more experienced than myself applying for thousands of jobs and not getting them, then what hope have the likes of me got? That’s the mentality I have when applying for jobs. Fine I have been lazy (in comparison to some people) in my job search but my laziness is justified by what I just said.

I’m not willing to spend a lifetime on the dole applying for three jobs a week. Life is too short and no one should have to go through that for long periods of time.