Dolescum made good
morning all!

I sepnt 10 years on the dole. It started of intentionally and then i kind of got stuck. Then i got a job and am now earning like a proper capitalist arsebag. Thats the jist of the story but i shall elaborate for anyone avoiding work below, those of you with stuff to do can ignore the rest :)

So. After hating school i left and ended up on the dole. I lived in the lakes so i pretty much did a lot of walking, canoeing, hitchhiking painting and the like. I dont really get bored so the usual dole habits never took, hell, i saw the outdoors almost everyday :D

I learnt loads of tricks for filling time and sorting the dole. one of the best being to move location every 6 months. "just moved here to stay with a freind. I'm trying to find work but i need to network and see what there is" job done, preassure off, money comes in. and i got to see and live in a lot of unusal places (dont ever live in carlisle. Honestly its where the twisted violent village types go when they have been throw out of their twisted violent vilages.)

Anyway, i spent my time getting better at the art marlarky and then, due to actually wanting some money to buy nice things with, i started pushing freelance work. Which by some fluke lead me to work in a R&D lab for new mobile tech. I now however work in a college in an innovation lab and things are looking great. Yayy! there was a point i thought i'd be poor forever and some stressful teary nights but a lot of that was preassure from others. i was pretty happy reading in parks but society thinks i should be taking some lone parents job rather then happily living off thier tax :/

The last time i lost my job i discovered Second Life (no. i am not a sex pest :p ) and gave myself 6 months to investigate if it really was the Metaverse from Neil Stephensons SnowCrash. Running places now (new steampunk pirate city just opened). Wel worth eating up my savings as far as i see it. i dont make a lot but its how i got the job i do now.

Being dolescum is fine as ya do stuff and dont let others idiocy drag you down. Who the hell needs work to make them feel like they matter ffs. Unemploment is the time to finish the webcomic, learn new software, retrain, fuck about, learn to unicycle and the rest not wank and play flash games ya dolts!
(DreddPirateBob has watched every scifi film ever on, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 12:13, 1 reply)

I hope you're happy.
I'm sitting in an office (notice the avoidance of the word "work" there), and it's my tax money (so the Daily Mail told me) that is keeping you living whilst you avoid a job.


You could at least have a wank.
(TheColonel, Wed 8 Apr 2009, 12:34, closed)