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Avoiding gainful employment

 
  

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jeff
17:11 / 21.08.02
Any suggestions?
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
17:18 / 21.08.02
depends where you live, really. if in the UK: sign on. piece of piss.

if in the US... not sure? marry money?
 
 
Ellis says:
17:39 / 21.08.02
Become a student, it worked for me.

For two months.

Man, I can't wait until university starts again...
 
 
jeff
23:54 / 21.08.02
So how much would you be looking at per week if you did sign on?
 
 
Margin Walker
03:43 / 22.08.02
Get a flintlock and relieve passing coaches of their lupins? Hell, I dunno. Don't ask me, I'm still looking.
 
 
the Fool
04:43 / 22.08.02
Come to Australia. Our dole is something you can live off quite happily.
 
 
rizla mission
08:55 / 22.08.02
Become a student, it worked for me.

ditto.
 
 
w1rebaby
10:35 / 22.08.02
How gainful is most employment, overall, anyway?
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
13:05 / 22.08.02
the Fool's got a point. hmmm, dolescum emigration - there's an idea...

Here, dole isn't much, but it does mean you don't have to work. basically if over 25 you get something like £45.70 a week, paid fortnightly, and housing benefit to (partially) cover rent, which is variable between regions...

You're totally fine for three months, you have to go in fortnightly with a job seekers' diary but this basically just needs to say - "I looked in the guardian/local papers/online and wrote some letters" they almost never check. After three months they'll get slightly more intensive, but if you're a first timer they probably won't hassle you much, especially if you're looking for specific types of work based on experience. I was on the the dole for about 7/8 months and it was a doddle...and if they hassle, you can always sign off, temp and then sign on again when your contract finishes, know people who've done this for years... It's not much to live on but you can get all sorts of freebies/discounts etc if you're unemployed, so it's not as bad as it sounds. Lots of people I know are poor but pretty happy on the dole round here...

If you've got any more questions, bung 'em here and I'll try and answer them - there are plenty of people round here who've had a dole spell
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
13:12 / 22.08.02
oh, and another thing:

Cash In Hand Work. oh yes.
 
 
Bad Horse
14:21 / 22.08.02
What you need is a long term debilitating illness that does not stop you drinking and is hard for medicos to pin down. Bad backs are a classic and if you can do it tripping on some paving you can sue the council for your starter fund, if it severe enough you may even get a mobility allowance and an orange badge for your car.

The secret is they base it (used to base it?) on how far you can walk unaided. If you can convincingly sit on your arse for the rest of your life you've got it made.
 
 
suds
14:38 / 22.08.02
plums, i only get £41.60 a week wah wah wah.
it's ok being on the dole but i can't wait to start work next week. i want kitty hats and the tweet album and books.
 
 
Trijhaos
14:46 / 22.08.02
You could always do something that'll get you tossed in prison. Three meals a day, medical care, and a roof over your head. What more do you need?
 
 
the garden gnome
15:07 / 22.08.02
trijhaos, you forgot the availability of potential mates in there too...

ginormous!
 
 
XXII:X:II = XXX
14:02 / 24.08.02
Lick my plums, bitch. wrote: Cash In Hand Work. oh yes.

That's how I've managed to keep my head above water for the last year. No taxes, and I can file for unemployment, too. Of course, my expenses went up accordingly, but this will keep me going for another 2 months, at which point I'm truly FUCKED.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
14:13 / 24.08.02
Become an MP.
 
 
Ganesh
15:31 / 24.08.02
Or a Royal.

*continues to resist the urge to launch into 'my taxes' style right-wing rant*
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
17:49 / 24.08.02
As I understand the sitution in the UK, if you take over a certain amount of LSD you can be declared legally insane and unfit for employment.

The downsides to this is potential institutionalisation, explaining to the less accepting of any friends and family as to why you've been tagged as a screaming nutcase and, should you choose to seek employment in the future, having a history of being sectioned can have a severe negative impact on certain caree options.

On the plus side, free cash and a good time (if LSD is your kind of thing)
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
17:51 / 24.08.02
You could get a job that pays by the hour but not actually do any work. I've been doing that for years. My 'job' is to get high and hang out with hot people. The only real work comes in being charming enough to my boss so she doesn't fire me.

Prison is a decent idea, so long as you plan out what prison you'd end up in. I could stand a Nashville prison with people from Nashville in it. But a Detroit prison? The people on the street here are violent enough that I don't want to even think about the people so violent that the city locked them up for it.
 
 
Jane Doe X
20:41 / 24.08.02
Yeah i'd go for the prison idea. If you get the right prison its a RESORT. Either that or go for some get quick rich scheme like selling leg casts outside of theme parks so people can queue jump with no hassle, by the way that idea is copywrite under my name!
 
 
Ganesh
21:06 / 24.08.02
Potus says:

As I understand the situation in the UK, if you take over a certain amount of LSD you can be declared legally insane and unfit for employment.

Oddly enough, this isn't enshrined in British Law: dullards that we psychiatrists are, we tend to diagnose mental illness according to clinical symptoms rather than 'amount of LSD ingested'.

Of course, you could attempt to induce a permanent psychosis in yourself through prolonged, heavy use of LSD, amphetamines, and so on - and if it turns out you have a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia, say, then you're laughing - or your auditory hallucinations are, anyway. Now all you have to worry about is the likelihood of lifelong problems with paranoia, anxiety, depression and general neuropsychosocial decline. Bingo!

Equally tempting, if you're female, is the prospect of getting yourself pregnant - single mothers have a grrreat time! Then, when you get sick of that, you can always slap the kid around for a while (break a bone or two, maybe), report yourself and look forward to a nice cushy spell in a comfortable open prison.

*sigh*

Or you could maybe stop talking crap and get a job?
 
 
ill tonic
22:37 / 24.08.02
Don't you have a lung, or an eye to spare??? Sell your organs. Or become a human guinea pig.

I can't remember who said it, but the pregnancy idea isn't bad -- become a surrogate mother.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
22:42 / 24.08.02
Now now, Ganesh. Being an ill-informed moron is protected by Barbelaw. Even as we speak the helicopters are preparing an airdrop of food, dope and video games.

I'd just like to point out that people on the dole live in luxury and black lesbians use up all our taxes by buying 12-bedroomed houses in Knightsbridge.
 
 
—| x |—
07:06 / 25.08.02
Do you hate to work for a living? Do you want to avoid the dreaded nine to five world of the zombie drone machine control program? Do you find yourself desiring to own your own time?

Then MODZILLA is for you.

Yes, MODZILLA gives you all you need to avoid anything that has to do with whoring yourself out to make some fat cat rich.

Cleaning the wage slave grime out of your time: MODZILLA punches clocks right in the face!
 
 
paw
14:41 / 25.08.02
my mate told me medical experimentation is a good money maker but theres still a morning shift. if i recall rightly he got up at six in the morning every day for three months and had to go back in the evening for injections. never went insane or died so i guess...says the man who believes that in a world of ebola plague he would be the only person not to get ill.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
15:01 / 25.08.02
I've heard that you can sell your body to science while you're still alive. All you gotta do is sign some contract giving whatever medical school rights to your body after you die, and you get a good bit of cash. I've also heard that you can buy your body back if you're unhappy with the idea of a school getting it's hands on your corpse. I have no idea how true this is, though. But it's kinda neat.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
15:07 / 25.08.02
Or you could maybe stop talking crap and get a job?

Well, sure, if you want to act like a mature rational and responsible adult or something and not be a parasite living off the hard work of others.
 
 
Jackie Susann
22:06 / 25.08.02
'hmmm, dolescum emigration - there's an idea...'

unfortunately, migrants have no/virtually no welfare right for years after arriving in australia. i assume this is true in many countries, since it's such an efficient way of maintaining an underpaid labour pool dependent on absolutely any work they can get.
 
 
Janean Patience
08:43 / 09.02.07
I've just searched Google for the phrase "people on the dole live in luxury" and this is the only hit.

Is that the impression we want to give the world? That we're all envious ants despising the free and easy grasshopper for his art?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
08:47 / 09.02.07
I imagine that the world may not actually be that stupid, although I have been wrong before.
 
 
Olulabelle
09:50 / 09.02.07
I wonder how many people search Google for 'people on the dole live in luxury'? A worrying lot? Did you search Google specifically to comment, or was it just a bizarre coincidence?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
09:57 / 09.02.07
Sweet zombie JEZUZ! You're right! People googling the phrase "people on the dole live in luxury" are going to read that post and assme that Barbelith is a subsidiary of the Daily Mail. They will probably say mean things about us on their Livejournals. Cruel, mean, untrue things.

Is this what we want, people? IS THIS WHAT WE WANT?
 
 
Janean Patience
09:58 / 09.02.07
Nobody needs to Google "people on the dole live in luxury" because it's such a self-evident truth and has been since the introduction of the Poor Law or possibly Roman times. No, the phrase popped into my head while working on something and I wondered where I knew it from.

On further reflection, I think it's from the Young Ones book Bachelor Boys. Can you confirm that, Haus?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:59 / 09.02.07
I believe I got the phrase from the Young One's cash-in book, "Bachelor Boys", in which it is credited to Captain Paranoia... pre-Internet, of course.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:59 / 09.02.07
W00T! Crosspost.
 
  

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