Well I'm still here, still unemployed.
One of the big problems with being unemployed is social. I sit at home looking for work on the internet and thinking of things I could do if I had some spare money. I would love to do some decorating, several rooms in the house are looking a little tired, but I don't want to spend the money on paint and wallpaper.
So when I do go out, I have no conversation. I haven't been anywhere, I haven't done anything (other than a bit of housework) and I have nothing planned. We aren't having a holiday, obviously, this year. I can't meet up with people for lunch, or for a troll round the shops.
I can't decide if people are avoiding me because I'm so boring, or if I am being paranoid!
I went down to the job centre a couple of weeks ago and applied for job seekers allowance. It looked fine, then I got a letter saying my application had been turned down. I phoned up the office to find the reason and was told that I needed to have paid £5000 per year N.I. for the last two years to qualify. Which is rubbish. Who pays £5000 a year National Insurance? Any way they asked to see my P60's for the last two years (which I had already produced at the job centre). Those where sent off on Tuesday, so I should hear soon.
Not that job seekers is a lot of money, but every little helps. I'm nearly at the end of my savings.
I have a friend who has a shop, I have offered to write a website for him. He's not going to pay me. But it will give me a chance to do some web programming, which I have not really done before, and if the site turns out okay, then I can apply for a job as a web programmer and use the site as an example of what I can do. Now I just have to learn how to program web stuff!
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