Diary 7th And 8th March 2018

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Diary Wednesday 7th March 2018 A lot on today starting with mandatory attendance of a jobs fair promoting work in the hospitality industry, with jobs like bar staffing, waiters, hotel porters and receptionists, etc. This isn’t work I seek as the hours would often mean having to get taxis to get home with shifts ending after buses stop running. My welfare advisors demanded my attendance. Not turning up on time would stop my benefits. I turned up but most invited employers didn’t and the few attending jut advised the hundred or so welfare claimants there, including me, to look on their websites. At least in being registered as attending my own welfare benefits were safe. I called in the library for an hour, largely to stay warm and kill time before my next activity, helping with interviews for students hoping to study as paramedics at the University Of Central Lancashire, in Preston. The prospective students were interviewed by two tutors and my role was to be a pretend patient who had taken a bad fall, to see how the students talked to me and dealt with me. I then joined with the tutors to discuss how well each of the five students did. It was quite a challenge for me as well as the students. Diary Thursday 8th March 2018 My second visit to the welfare office in two days, as this was my now weekly welfare hearing, to assess how well my job searching has gone. My advisor apologized for the poor attendance at the jobs fair and ordered me to attend an agency registration meeting there on Tuesday for possible warehousing work before my next welfare hearing next Thursday. Again I used the library to bridge a gap between activities, this time before going to the community centre for a few hours using their computers for job search activity and meeting friends there. With a little shopping in the rain, my day was done. Arthur Chappell