Skint But We Get By

Well Friday saw me at my first sign on appointment in nearly 7 years! Seriously why do people who work in job centres think that they can be condescending idiots who look down on the rest of us!! They seem to forget that they are slowly being replaced by online services and if it wasn't for the rest of us they would not even have a job in the first place would they!! You would think that they would be a tiny bit grateful that the misfortune of the rest of us means they have a job!! I mean it isn't really anything too much to ask for is it!! They really are no better than us are they, they are still human after all. Anyway, Wednesday sees me as having to attend a really pointless 45minute employ me session. I have no idea what this even is or what I will have to do for this pointless session. All I know is that it will be of no real benefit to anyone even attending the session as most of us are never actually going to really be employed any time soon for one reason or another....

I always hate doing this bit! I am not even new to the world of blogging, but I am one of these people who get bored of them easily but I intend not too on this one!!  So who am I? Well I'm SKINT!! haha! Seriously though, my name is Natasha and I am a single mum. I am 28 but 29 next month. My daughter turns 5 at the end of this month and as I am skint I have not even bought her presents yet or even considered her birthday BBQ yet! Bad mum I know!  I am currently unemployed and I have been since I was forced to resign from my job when Jessica was a few months old. I was in an abusive relationship and unfortunately have not been able to find work since. No matter what courses I enroll on to better myself, a single mum with NO childcare options who has been the victim of domestic violence and abuse in every relationship she has ever been in just is not employable. I would happily pay for childcare but no one seems to understand that until I actually get a job and some wages i...