Swinks makes the news

[Replay]

Best work wanted ad ever, something will come of this no doubt

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/2066700/job-seekers-roadside-plea-after-200-applications/?cs=305#slide=1

[ralph67]

Hope you get some work from the sign , i reckon you would get some offers from the news article as well . Keep your chin up mate , good luck for the future

[Pop Bumper Pete]

I hope something happens soon Swinks

[Cow Corner]

I see lots of people doing this.
More and more people are resorting to this tactic to pick up work, it is a sobering reminder of the times we now live in.
Hope it all works out well.

[Crashramp]

Good on you Jady, I wish you all the best.

[Pintoxicated]

Yeah hats off for all your efforts Jady.  Wish you well mate.

[MartyJ]

All the best Jady...

[Freiherr]

Your perseverence astounds me. Bosses should considet that. Good luck.

[Slash]

I agree with everyone else's sentiments, respect for doing whatever you can to provide for your family!!  I hope your wait for work is over very soon.

[swinks]

thanks everyone for your thoughts and support,

tough times in many ways, met quite a few lovely people that have stopped and congratulated me on being brave, being resourceful and having big balls   - tell you it was dam nervous watching thousand of people pass you every morning starring at you, felt a little degraded but just keen to work and look after the family, be nice to get a job and then buy myself a pin for a few weeks time when I hit 44, exactly 4 years after the habit started. So far no job offers in 4 days of doing it but lots of encouragement.

Monday - KOFM gave me radio help convinced that would score me a job in a day (though I felt that wouldn't happen) but stopped after a day as they failed I guess
Tuesday - a very eccentric passionate business guy said he would help and he called the Newcastle Morning Herald and they came out and did an article and published yesterday
Wednesday - newspaper article came out but had a break due to sad stuff but got a call from Sydney's Channel 7 and were prepared to travel and do a interview yesterday but since I had to dash to Sydney they met me quickly for a interview that will be aired in hopefully tonights Seven News (possibly national) - the main story is a guy in Sydney wanting staff but out of 11 scheduled interviews only 2 people turned up, with the rest sending texts or nothing (must not of wanted the job and just satisfying the dole requirments for 10 jobs a fortnight thing). They want to show the contrast that here are dole bluggers not turning up and then people like me want a job but aren't given the chance for a interview.
Thursday - will be on the news
Friday - last stint then having a break as you start to lose hope - I feel for all those people that want a job but just can't land one.

As for the sad news, my mother in law is loosing here fight with cancer and it was her 69th birthday yesterday and the doctor told her on her birthday you have days to weeks to live, so as expected my wife is shattered and hurts us all. Also yesterday I got my first government payment - $1.10 a fortnight as my wife works 19.5 hours a fortnight so pushes us over the threshold, how generous, while the bluggers scam the system, get accommodation help etc,,,,

This also explains my absence here and relieving myself of moderator duties on AP in the last fews days, all just too much going on

[Caveoftreasures]

Something isn't right Jady with what centrelink have calculated.

I would be getting back there yesterday n seeing if someone didn't stuff up big time and then be asking for backpayment $$ which might add up to thousands of dollars from when ? you originally applied.

I have heard of a couple with two kids getting paid about $900 a week (minus about 65 percent of what your wife earns) then u shld be getting about $400 or $500 a week minimum. Which might pay the mortgage etc....it helps. Just check the centrelink site n they actually have a calculator which tells what you could be getting paid weekly.

The rules recently regarding the payout/retrenched monies also changed on 1st Feb as well. I think whilst you are doing these other positive things to get $$ coming in, get back some of the taxes you have paid n get back to centrelink n see what they can recalculate again.

I reckon you will score a job from the TV show. Hope it all works out n great karma goes to great people so I know it will not be long.

They shld have had u smiling in the photo.lol

Good luck Jady.

[Pintoxicated]

Very sorry to hear about your mother in law Jady.  I know I speak for everyone when I say we are thinking of you mate and once again please pass our thoughts and prayers onto your wife and her family.

[andtan]

Chin up Jady,

There must be something good coming around the corner soon

[pinball god]

I'm going to say what I think without putting any funny symbols about my thoughts, but f**k the government which ever are in, they're all the same. Nice to know we don't look after our own kind. Lets continue sending money to those countries that bag us all day long and keep building more weapons to blow us aw one day.

I really enjoy thinking I'm Australian on days like this......... NOT

Good luck mate

Ps looks like the system automatically puts in those symbols but you all get my feelings

[swinks]

 

well the road side stand off paid off, as well as the media help etc as got a call on Wednesday while down in Sydney after the article came out as a recruiter contacted me and said that they have a potential job for me. I went and saw the recruiter yesterday, had the interview today and just got off the phone 30 minutes ago.

 

I finally got a job (7 months and 5 days what a time) as a project administrator for a project home company Dixon Homes and the owner here also has a second business doing property development buying land and putting in roads, electricity, and houses as well as high end houses along the coast. There is scope once I prove myself for pay and career so I am very happy and was able to share with my mother in law as that was here dying wish for me to get a job before she passes (which my wife saw her today believes it may be this weekend sadly - bless her as she was one of those really nice, and generous ones that was always welcome).

So I start next Wednesday  bring on a pin for the 23-2-14