Damo, You might as well know now. No one on Gods green earth is going to invest in someones business plan who refuses to work... and your right, car washing isn't a viable long term wage. No one ever said it was. But its still a wage all the same.

I'm meeting a fella from Business Enterprise Yorkshire in Costa coffee on Tuesday morning. I'm taking an iPad with my business plan on and everything. Going to be a right douche aren't I.

I feel like rlthese guysrl atm

If my mate can get to Brazil by giving away cake for donations then anything’s possible in this world.Good luck with your business plan Gav

In the late 90s I took early retirement from LEEDS PUBLIC WORKS DEPT after 25 years service and I thought I would spend a bit of time on the dole and do a few jobs before I get a regular job,I told them I didnt want to go follow my trade at my age in the private sector,they said "oh fine, you will have no trouble getting employment after 25 years at LCC"2 weeks before I found myself a job,they never left me alone asking me what interveiws I had?but it seemed they left alone the longterm or those who never worked.My last job at Leeds uni halls of residence was 7years before I retired,they told me later I was taken on before younger people was because of my employment record and experience and that I gave the impression that I actually wanted the job.I think now there are almost two generations who have been without a job culture and with the loss of all the industries when they would have gone into factories and been trained in the jobs and shown how to conduct themselves in life.Tell me Damo you dont come across as what is termed a chav,but do the people at the dole place ask you regularly how is your job search going?

You're

No real point made really badly. You can't write and you have not much of interest to say based on this. You need to switch off the computer for a few weeks, stay out of the pub and get a job. I've spent time out of work when I left university and when you have sweet FA to do apart from look for a job you actually get out and look for a job. If the alternative is sitting watching Neighbours with you Mum then warehouse work is actually a really fun way to spend the day. I guaratee you that you spend a week unloading lorries or washing cars or whatever, you sit in the pub on a Friday with your mates and feel like you earned your beer.
Forget the blogging crap, the computer is a con - emptying your every thought onto it is not "working" and it won't be a living. Stop wasting your time looking for something on RLfans - it's a forum for people who support Leeds RL to gas about Leeds RL. Do you think you can make a living chatting with your mates? Of course you f******g can't.
Stop moaning about being let down and stop the passive aggressive defence of you "qualifications". Nobody on here put a gun to your head and made you do them, you made that mistake all on your own - we've all made them when we're young, that's what you do when you're young. I did the wrong A levels, took the wrong degree and then made the mistake of not doing a PhD. So what?

The best thing you can do right now is unplug the computer, you're looking for something online that you won't find. You are obviously afraid to do something outside what and who you know. That's why you unload everything on here. You're more comfortable being abused on Southstander than taking a chance and interracting with the real world.
I'm saying this for your own good. I don't think you're lazy, I think you're scared and you've got into a bad set of habits - one of which is that you need affirmation for things you do. It's not enough just to get a job, you have to have people tell you how worthy what you are doing is. This makes it very difficult for you to just do a job and earn some money. Most people work because they need to pay bills and a bi-product is that you don't feel quite as crap about yourself (here's a revelation for you - everyone feels crap about themselves to some degree). You're also in a real victim mentality, which completely blocks you from taking responsibility for your situation.
The scariest thing for you to have to think about is that you're not actually special, there is nobody holding you back and it's actually all down to you - no anti-Damo conspiracy, no plot to keep you out of work so the rest of us can feel superior.

I offered you some sound advice at the beginning of the thread, 9 pages on and you've not listened. You need to start listening to people and learning, but you won't so any of that on-line. Unplug the thing.

Ok – let’s put a lid on this for once and all.

Damo, we all know your unemployed, we all know your know really bothered about getting a job, we all know that your that constant threads about this emotive subject winds everyone else up.

We all get the point now, you’ve had your fun and got all the attention you’ve asked for.

No more about your threads personal situation please, let us try and stick to Rugby League and cakes and stop winding up the majority.

Amen

"We all get the point now, you’ve had your fun and got all the attention you’ve asked for."

That quote explains exactly why Damo will be back on this topic within a matter of months. It appears that any attention is better than none.

As you requested Damo has unplugged his computer in doing so he has been unable to read your good advice. I popped round to his house yesterday and relayed your comments to him. He asked me to tell you to Fuc£ Off!

Job hunting advice 101:

Get off the smack dude. Seriously.

On behalf of pretty much everyone on the forum please could you relay the same message back to him. TIA.

I just want to confirm that this didn’t happen. Peggy has a vendetta against me due to the fact that I’m very critical of charity’s that do more exploiting than helping. Don’t just take my word for uncharitable charities though. Didn’t George Osborne do a speech about them recently?

Do I come across as a typical tory supporter?

I’ll let you all make your minds up on that one.

I agree that this subject winds everyone up including me. I’d like to call it a truce and end it on this note. This involves other people not bumping up the thread when it lingers down at the bottom. This is the last word you’ll get from me on this thread unless someone decides to spread rumours.

Time to draw a line then