IT Contractor initial contract

[larson]

This is why we have the unemployment problems that we have in this country. You can make that choice and survive on benefits reasonably well whilst perpetuating the myth that all the available jobs are beneath you. You are wrong, if all you can get is a supermarket job you should bloody well take it until you can find something better! This is what the large majority of the unemployed who can't get a job say, along with such one liners as "anything would do me, I just want a job". When you actually give them an "anything" job they invariably turn thier nose up at it and say, **** that man I can't hack it, i'm not taking that tulip, etc. etc..

If I had no contract and bills to pay I would quite happily stack shelves at a supermarket or work on a bar, it is what you do to survive and I would much rather do that than sit at home getting hand outs from the government. Unfortunately it seems that people like me are a rare breed these days, most will happily sit on benefits whining that there is no job for them and expecting somebody to stump up a well paid job where they will tend to do the bare minimum to get paid.

Nonsense, when I was unemployed in the past I was rejected from lower-end jobs as it was clear from (a heavily watered down!) CV that I would be gone quickly, as much as I tried to convince the interviewers.

The actual issue is that we have a significant number of people in this country who refuse to work in the lowest and low-end jobs but those people are not - going by past (if any) work experience and (lack of) qualifications - worthy of any job higher than the lower end of the spectrum. So what do those people do? Invent illnesses, do anything possible to avoid work.

I'm not suggesting I'm above a low end job to see me through the hard times, but I am suggesting that I wouldn't take a full-time, 6 days a week, simple dull job when I simply do not need to. Your circumstances may mean you have to do that. I didn't study constantly since 18 years old to go stack shelves when I have no debt and am not milking money off the government or anybody else! When I was unemployed for three weeks I was constantly searching for work for a month before I knew I would be finishing the role, and kept at it.

How many people do you know who are worthy of so much more, but end up accepting something much lower than they deserve, and end up just sticking with it, end up in a rut? Yeah, I know loads of those people too. So I'll do what I wish to not end up like that, it is a gradual process that these people do not see happening.

[slickcontractor]

If you are out of work with no means to feed or house yourself you will do anything. it is all very well blabbing on about "self respect" but people who roll their sleeves up and get on with grafting a living irrespective of what the work is are the ones who earn respect.

cant argue with that!!!!