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.

This as well.

Maybe you should aim your negative comments at some of the low life good for nothings that would rather spend their time in a pub, spending our hard earned tax when THEY should be applying for jobs. I also don't see the point of applying for jobs that are completely unsuitable for you, if you have a qualification in tourism but their are no jobs going you wouldn't apply to become a computer programmer would you? Yes there are many jobs on the market vacant but the vast majority are skilled jobs. If Damons project gets him a job then it was well worth it, if it helps get others jobs then it is a fantastic success and you should be applauding his efforts. With the right help this project could be very successful, the fact the YEP and other organisations have picked up on it says it is a project well worth attempting. I for one will be helping Damo in getting this project off of the ground and I wish him the very best of luck!

Perhaps you missed the bit where our Damo admitted being drunk when calling into the job centre?

Good luck if this idea gets you into fulltime employment Damo, but as for investing.....I'm out!

Haha, yeah true. That doesn't surprise me - I also remembering him turning up to college an hour + late, when asked the reason "I wanted a coffee from McDonalds" - good old Damo.

Well done young man . I really hope some of the people that have abused you on here hang their heads in shame and dig deep in their pockets when they read the bit about the Aspergers diagnosis . There are a lot of people on these boards that think you are a bit special(needs) . You may or may not be , but if you are , you are our special person .




DAMO .... We love him because he is special .

Fantastic Damo. Your career beckons. Just watch those apostrophes

Cheers for the support Rick

With regards to Aspergers it’s a very misunderstood condition. The worse aspects of the condition tends to come out when people who are diagnosed are facing too much crap in their lives like unemployment in my case.

However having coming across various people with Aspergers (including those in jobs) I’ve concluded (this isn’t a professional opinion) that the condition becomes pretty much non-existent if the person diagnosed are living a reasonable life. For example I can go months on end without even thinking about the condition because I’m not surrounded by people and things that constantly remind me that I’ve got it a majority of the time.

Last week I popped along to Leeds Asperger Adults and some of the stuff they were suggesting adults should do was insulting. The first suggestion was that we could go to an Autism friendly cinema screening to see Happy Feet 2. Now everyone in the meeting has done fine (I’m the youngest there by far) going to the cinema in the past. Besides isn’t Happy Feet a kids film? Also I wouldn't want to watch a film where people are allowed to make as much noise as their want and move around all they want. It's as if these things encourage people with disabilitys to act like that rather than civilised.

Then they suggest we go on ‘autism friendly’ day trips like bowling and whatever. It’s as if we’re totally incapable of organising these things ourselves. I only went back to the group because it was hard to keep in touch with people since I decided to leave last year. I’ve met some great mates there and I hope to keep in touch. But as I said in the meeting I don’t want to get involved with autism politics.

I feel that overall there’s a vested financial interest for some people to treat adults with Aspergers like kids. There’s big funding like the big lottery fund to encourage this. A majority of people I’ve met with Aspergers don’t really use the services on offer because there shoddy and unsuitable. When I raised these points in the meeting I was faced with dramatics by the powers that be and those who are mollycoddled by the powers that be. There was only around 10 of us at that meeting and that’s in a city full of people with Aspergers.

Finally I’ve learnt in life you’ve got to choose the right battles to fight at the right time. At Present I don’t have the resources or the right support to take on the vested interests in the Aspergers community.

On the other hand I’ve got the right skills, resources and support to carry out what I’m carrying out with regards to the unemployment stuff. Plus I’ve got the personal backing of the deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to round it all off. I acknowledge that I’m only one person and I can’t do everything at once!

Thanks for the on-going support mate and the website is looking mint!

People should check out his stuff - Thanks for the well wishes mate

If going into the job centre drunk is a crime then press criminal charges against me

I'm confident that by next week I'll have some funding so I don't have to go through psychological torture every time I happen to get one of the jobs worth’s as an advisor. Thankfully most of the time I get advisors that have modern values/morals.