Dutch pancake
My mate Vanny is Dutch by birth but his family moved to NZ when he was just a toddler. However he still holds a Dutch passport and as a citizen is eligible live and claim benefits there.
A few ears ago after a relationship breakup he decided it was time to go and see a bit of the world and his first stop was the old country.
Vanny decided that a bit of extra cash would help with his sightseeing of tulips and windmills as well as providing him with a new pair of clogs. As opposed to going to all night dance parties and indulging in substances illicit in most other parts of the world.

By trade Vanny is a mechanic , in fact he was workshop supervisor before he left.
In Holland they have quite an efficent job center , when you register they take your details and match you to all the avalible jobs on the computer. (this was back in the late 1980s so very impressive then). If anything suitable comes in you are contacted straight away to arrange an interview.

However Vanny realised that as a mechanic he had a fair chance of landing a job immediatly . This would severly cut into his Heiniken drinking sorry canal appreciation time. So when in the central Amsterdam equivalant of the Jobcenter and asked his occupation he replied..........











"High country shepard . You know looking after sheep over 3500 feet above the snow line in the mountains."

Rarther oddly there were no vacancies for a high country shepard in the greater Amsterdam area. Despite this Vanny still recieved his job seekers allowance .
As it turned out he got a nice job in a Porsche dealership about a month later once the hallucogenics wore off.

Although his time living in Holland did come back to haunt him when he got arrested on drug importation charges (aquitted)but thats another story.
(welgar, Tue 7 Apr 2009, 15:19, 2 replies)

I love how you measure time in ears.

I might start doing that.
(Burt Burt, Tue 7 Apr 2009, 15:48, closed)

JobCentrePlusSuperMegaHyperBoostPipe version:
Applicant: "High country shepard . You know looking after sheep over 3500 feet above the snow line in the mountains."

(moments pause)

Drone: "We have vacancies for welders in Aberdeen."
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Tue 7 Apr 2009, 16:53, closed)