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.