Diary Thursday 2nd February 2017

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Wrote this and then forgot to post it - doh! A day of mixed fortunes, starting with my fortnightly welfare signing on session. I had a new advisor today who was pleasant enough but he insists that I now start adding the time factors to my documented job searches. It has always been expected that job-seekers spend 35 hours per week, (5 hours a day seven days a week) though until today just listing the number of jobs sought has sufficed. Now I’m expected to also log how many minutes and hours each activity has occupied. I learned that my voluntary work counts towards this time for up to half the hours required (17 and a half hours maximum) and fortunately today I had two hours of such voluntary work to do. From the signing offices I briefly called in the library and then went on to the nearby University by bus (my travel time is inclusive in my job search activity) to give a talk to social-health and well being students on my cult experiences, alongside a Christian lady and a young Sikh gentleman talking about their experiences. About fifty young students listened attentively and we had a fabulous question and answer session too. I was on first and it was lovely to listen to the co-speakers as well. I hope for more such speaking assignments soon. Back home I did some more job searching and settled to writing like this. Arthur Chappell