I've been unemployed
It was after coming back from the UK after a year and a half backpacking round the world, and I was completely skint. However, being a person of much middle classness, I didn't have the first clue about being in such a situation (I'd heard the phrase "signing on", but didn't have a clue what exactly got signed by whom and where), so just lived in my sister's spare room for a few weeks and went looking for a job every day. Now I learn that I could have been getting free money from the government!!!
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Fri 3 Apr 2009, 12:42, 1 reply)

Good point

I wouldn't sign on unless I was eating out of the bins with desperation.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 3 Apr 2009, 13:13, closed)