I finally went down to the Job Centre today and signed on to receive my crappy "Contribution-based" Jobseekers allowance. I get a total of £53 to support a family of 5. If I quit trying to be self sufficient and gave up doing discos I would be entitled to over £200. Kinda makes you wonder if it's worth the hassle. Currently my discos mean I work 14 hours a week. If that goes over 16 hours a week in any week then I lose the £53 for that week.
Meeting with the condescending "counsellor" this morning did kind of spur me into action and I spent a couple of hours trying to look for jobs outside of my existing career path. After a couple of hours the futility of it all got to me and Sharon and I decided we should take the kids out for a walk otherwise we'd end up locking them in their rooms (whoa........ not really!).
We're lucky enough to live a 5 minute drive from Castle Ring on Cannock Chase. We took the kids there for an hour and took a load of photos with the little Blink camera. Hopefully I'll get them on the website tomorrow.
