Life on the bench: in my dressing gown

[RichardCranium]

maybe we should charge certain people if they want to keep spouting their nonsense on here.

Shush! Don't put ideas in the mod's heads!

(And anyway, AtW wouldn't be able to afford to run all his fembots.)

[Bunk]

I don't think Hector will lose any sleep over having to wait for my tax money, so I've decided I won't either. Not before January, anyway!

Forget about it and enjoy Christmas. Hector's probably too busy getting pissed up and trying to pull his secretary at the moment to worry about your tax.

[RichardCranium]

It was a 6 a.m. start. I'm focussed and I'm driven today. My records are up to date, I scanned my email for anything interesting, now I'm hitting the job boards.

I've had a cup of tea and taken the bread out of the bread maker.

I've got ThunderBird to version 3 so it indexes emails so I can search for and find stuff while I'm actually on the phone.

Today I'm feeling lucky.

[Crumlin]

Best of luck

[FiveTimes]

Between the Job Centre and the Council I'm getting £41.87 per day to look for work. Which isn't bad money I suppose for a gig sitting at home, web browsing and firing off emails. Roughly equates to minimum wage.

How are you managing to get £41.87/day ? What else are you claiming for apart from JSA ?

[RichardCranium]

How are you managing to get £41.87/day ? What else are you claiming for apart from JSA ?

Now you ask, I realise I'm not really on that much per day. I fiddled the figures.

I followed the advice in this thread to get Council Tax Benefit and Housing Benefit.

I have added together the Council Tax Benefit (which is a discount rather than a payment), the 25% discount on Council Tax 'cos my wife's in college full time, the Housing Benefit and the JobSeeker's Allowance.

I then divided 14 days' worth of that by 10 to pretend it is what I'm being "paid".

So it isn't really £41.87 per day, but if I tell myself it is it sounds better than the reality.

[bandit_legs]

Now you ask, I realise I'm not really on that much per day. I fiddled the figures.

I followed the advice in this thread to get Council Tax Benefit and Housing Benefit.

I have added together the Council Tax Benefit (which is a discount rather than a payment), the 25% discount on Council Tax 'cos my wife's in college full time, the Housing Benefit and the JobSeeker's Allowance.

I then divided 14 days' worth of that by 10 to pretend it is what I'm being "paid".

So it isn't really £41.87 per day, but if I tell myself it is it sounds better than the reality.

how long have you been benched for now, may i ask?

[scotspine]

I've got ThunderBird to version 3

thanks for the heads up!

[RichardCranium]

Up at 6, cup of tea, everything rebooted and ready to go. And you know what they say:

"It's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird!"

[digerido]

RC

I've noticed your posts since joining up a few months ago and I just wanted to say all the best with the job hunting.

I honestly believe when looking for a role it's a question of timing, right place; right time...

Due to that I to am a firm believer of getting yourself out there in any way possible. Phoning\emailing agents, friends, old work colleuges to see if anything is coming up. Keep it up.

If you get yourself out there as much as possible you'll be in the right place more often than not

Cheers,

Up at 6, cup of tea, everything rebooted and ready to go. And you know what they say:

"It's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird!"