Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Dire economic situation 1


What am I seeing here you might ask, well what you are seeing is that the UK government gilt market is issuing rather a large amount of debt, this is represented by the blue lines. At the same time from March 2009 the BoE (Bank of England) started its quantitive easing program. That is in essence printing money out of thin air and using this to buy UK government gilts.

This is EXACTLY what Zimbabwe and the Weimar Republic did in the 1990s and 1920s respectively.

This can only lead to one thing:

Don't they know there is a recession on?

Public sector to strike

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Please no way this has to be a joke

End of the day

Although its not exactly fair to post jobs near the start of the day at the end of the day 4 more pages of jobs turned up which are 20 jobs each or there abouts.

So the final count is 76 jobs for today, shame I can't actually do many of them as they require nursing qualifications and or driving 7.5 ton trucks.

So why not look for other jobs


15 miles of Manchester and this morning these are all the jobs that I could find:

This is NOT a narrow search it is the widest possible search parameters possible on the jobs website, 15 miles of my location, any time any hours, temp or perm or contract. The only restriction was on today's jobs in that prior jobs for Saturday (sunday is always a quiet day) .However if I did that, that would be double counting of jobs for each day. So today's score is

6

An awful lot of people say to me on forums why not just apply outside accountancy? as there are loads of jobs outside accountancy, the problem is there aren't as above. Of the above I can probably do ONE of those jobs as they all require qualification, certification of somekind and most importantly experience of that job. All of those qualifications and certifications cost money, money I don't have in effect another tax as they are the sort of certifications that nobody fails hand over your money and you get the certificate.

This also leads to a bigger problem in that if I do not mention accountancy suddenly there is a 7 year hole in my CV 8 actually. In that it took me 3 years to graduate (although I worked as a chef in the meantime) and I have just under 4 years experience and 1 year underemployed.

How am I supposed to explain the massive gap in my CV, who will I get to give me references? I'm pretty sure high school and 6th form college don't remember me, in fact the staff who did teach me even at university which is my most recent experience of education have left or retired.