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Stop telling me via twitter to call your bloody status line, note down that there are problems and get them passed to an engineer and bloody fixed. I’ve even given you my partial postcosde!!!

The account isn’t in my name because I live in a frigging shared house. Due to the Data Protection laws I can’t deal with you guys directly.

In the past 2 weeks we’ve managed two frigging days without dropouts. Piss poor if you ask me especially being on a 100 meg connection.

Oh whoop de frigging do you’re increasing speeds at the top end to 120 meg, get the frigging infrasructure sorted out first.

The next frigging correspondence will be to your managing director and I’ll be lighting a rocket up his arse. 

 

Yes Virgin Media is currently winning the match against Productivity. 105 and 118 errors combining to send a belter into the back of the net.

Just when you think Productivity is back in the game a nice bit of foot work by “slow loading” in defence denies the fans of an equalizer.

The fans have had enough already, they’re leaving the ground.

No surprise there, will the fans return next week for the away fixture? The pundits pull a face and give it the thumbs down.

They’d rather go and watch paint dry.

 

Can you believe it? We’re into February already. Just writing this quick blog post before I head off into town to see a housing benefit assessor about my claim.

I took a decision last night to take my life into my own hands and decided after a couple of days watching videos and presentations from a guy called Stuart Ross who is the co-founder of Six Figure Mentors, I decided to sign up and so far I’m only into the “orientation” videos and already I’m blown away by the quality of the videos.

This guy really knows what he’s talking about. I’m one of the biggest sceptics out there when it comes to this kind of stuff, can I really make thousands of dollars a month? 

So instead of dismissing off hand as I usually do, I decided this is the year and took the plunge. This is going to take a lot of hard work and some money, but finally I can see a light at the end of the tunnel and it isn’t a train coming the other way.

 

Yes another rant on Virgin Media. 

You know why Virgin Media sucks?

1. On a 100mb connection, a 30 second video buffers

2. Download speeds at less than 1mb.

3. We live in a so called “dirty” area with inteference, virgin were never aware in about the 5 years the connection has been here, but how can radio masts etc, interfere with fibre optic cable?

4. Constant DNS errors because the routers go down.

Yes you’re still the same old NTL under a shiny new badge.

I’m feeling a little better than yesterday, I just need a lot of distractions at the moment to take my mind off what has been happening around me.

I’m off to my dad’s tonight to pick up a bookcase and I’ll be staying for dinner. 

The job search is still continuing, it is annoying when you click on a job description go to apply for it for a message to come up saying the job has expired, this is one of the downsides of having so many  job sites, all the recruiter has to do is submit one job hit a button and bam it’s aggregated to dozens of jobsites. They don’t actually keep tabs of when jobs are going to expire and wonder why they don’t have enough applications for a particular job.

Being as agencies aren’t so busy at the monent you would think they would take the time to contact the people on their books to see if they are still looking for work. I used to get that a lot, but recently you don’t hear anything, unless you contact them first.

 

I’ve been feeling low for a couple of days now and I feel now is the time for me to lay my cards on the table.

The biggest contributing factor is me not earning money again. It’s not a case of not having a job, I see jobs as a means to an end, as a stepping stone for me to get where I want to be and that’s earning enough money so I can just move and then earn a living working from home, actually doing stuff that I enjoy doing.

I’m not after a career, I’m too old for that now, I’m looking at different income streams for me to get what I want. If it means jumping from job to job in the meantime, then I’ll continue to do that. 

I do still have goals though and the main one is to have enough income for me to work for myself, doing what? Anything that makes me feel happy.

When I no longer feel happy doing something, then I’ll pack it in, if it is a business I’ll sell it to someone else who has the passion. Then I’ll move on to something else.

So any employers out there, don’t think you’re going to get me chained to a desk in the long term. Sure I’m going for permanent jobs, but my idea of a permanent job is 6 months to 2 years. If you want to keep me there longer, then you’ll have to come up with something really interesting. Otherwise I’m on to the next thing that takes my interest.

Don’t try and fob me off with £6.00 to £7.00 p/h jobs especially if I live over 15 miles away, that’ll just about get money in the tank and that’s about it.

I’m no longer going to compromise myself by getting a job that is losing me money to satisfy some false sense of self esteem because I’m leaving the house everyday, nor am I going to do it to satisfy the job centre, sure I’ll look for jobs, but don’t come moaning if I’m not getting any interviews or job offers. I’m not getting the begging bowl out anymore, I’m not going to pimp myself out to the highest bidder.

You want me, you come and get me, I’m here, I’m available. To help you these are my current interests, whether I have the money to pursue these interests or not, that doesn’t matter because I will be in the position one day to fulfill my interests, then I’ll delve into a little background of myself and see if you still have the balls to work with me.

My Current Interests

• Property – I have been interested in property for several years, never had the money to fulfill this aim of mine, whether it be being a landlord or setting up a letting agency, buy and selling property, I’m keen.
• The Stock Market/Forex Trading - Another interest of mine, not actually dabbled, again due to lack of money. I have attended a couple of Knowledge To Action seminars (as alluded to in previous posts), but the cost at the moment is really prohibitive from £1,997 to £13,000 (yes 13k) + VAT. Yes I plan to do these one day. But of course because of the costs would mean this is a few years away.
• Social Media - I love it, cannot get enough of it. Do I wish I could go out and earn money talking about it? Sure I do, but I don’t feel I have enough knowledge and I’m a lousy speaker in front of strangers. I’m like a rabbit in headlights. But I’m sure I’ll get over that given the time. 

Have I piqued your interest in me? Now this is where you need the balls to work with me, I’m not for the feint hearted.

Personal Background

No I’m not going to do a “Chunk” from the Goonies and regail you with everything from when I was born, it wouldn’t make a very interesting story. So I’m going to skip straight to 2007.

One day in particular which was a very dark day for me 4th October 2007, the day I filed for personal bankruptcy. What made it even more gut wrenching was my mother paid for the court fees, I wouldn’t have felt as bad if I could have afforded to pay the costs myself.

At that time even though I didn’t outwardly show it, I felt really bad just staring into space waiting for the clerk to come back to me to tell me my bankruptcy had been approved by the judge. 

After we left the court my mum, her fiance and me went our seperate ways, what made it worse was that my mum felt let down that years of burying my head in the sand had come to this.

My mum refused to speak to me for months, which was completely understandable.

A huge weight came off my shoulders for a while, as I knew the OR (official Receiver) would be dealing with my creditors.

What my mother and other people didn’t know at the time was that I had literally given up, I’d stopped tidying my flat a couple of years before, only hurriedly tidying it when mum came round to see what was happening. My flat basically looked like a bomb had gone off in it. I won’t go into much detail but it would have made an interesting episode of “How Clean is Your House”.

I’d stopped paying the service charges, ended up with a pre-payment electric meter because I couldn’t pay off the large electricity bill in their time scale.

After that point things still didn’t get any better, flat still wasn’t being tidied, service charges still not being paid, problems with the pre payment meter.

Again things came to a head in February 2009, my mum was fed up of the state of flat, then she was landed with a £1,000+ service charge bill, that I had been promising to pay for over a year, she decided she wanted me out of the flat and she was going to sell it. 

I had squandered a golden opportunity, by now I could have paid my mum off completely for the flat and I would have had a nice place to live or to rent out and I would have been well on my way.

So in February 2009 I ended up in shared accommodation where I have been to this day.

There have been some short periods of employment, which have all ended in one way or another.

So I’m once more sitting here looking for ways to make money. Thankfully my bills at the current time are low, I only have to worry about the rent and feeding myself.

Rounding Up

So now that I’ve laid my cards on the table, do you still want to work with me?

As I said I won’t work for pennies, I still need to pay the rent, feed myself, put fuel in the tank of my car and put money aside to fulfill my interests posted above.

It may cost you in the short term, but you get me back on my feet and I promise the rewards afterwards will be great. I never forget the people who help me out. 

If you’re interested then e-mail me:

richard.arblaster @ gmail.com

Or call me: 07562 979308

Please no time wasters, no offers of get rich quick schemes that I have to buy in to, I know that don’t exist.

 

 

It looks like I’ve been stricken with a bout of insomnia, I felt really tired earlier, yet I’m still up at 2.24am.

Just filled out my job search log, ready for my return to the job centre on 31st January.

I hope that me posting this will finally tip me over the edge to sleep.

I was hoping that this year would be the year I would be able to stop chasing money and actually relax. As I said in one of my first blog posts of the year, 2012 was going to be a good year.

I think I must have cursed myself with that comment, now I’m going to be chasing money even harder as I search for gainful employment again. 

I do know what I want to do, but everytime I seem to be within touching distance, the rug is pulled from underneath me. So once again I’m taking jobs to pay the rent and try to save money so I can implement my plans.

 

If you want me to invest in you, don’t just put a photo up, put a description in your profile about yourself. So I can at least follow a link or know a little bit more about you before I hit the buy button. 

Mine just gives a brief description about me and a link to my twitter account, which I think is enough to give you a little background about me.

I’m thinking how I can put a positive spin on being unemployed again? 

I was informed by my agency yesterday that my current assignment has come to an end. The agency are going to phone me back with some feedback at some point today.

Instead of feeling angry I just move on to the next opportunity. What’s the point in becoming angry, it isn’t going to change the fact that the assignment is over, why stress yourself out over it?

Fingers crossed the agency I’m with will be able to come up with a new assignment for me as quickly as possible. However this doesn’t mean I’m going to be sitting back waiting for them to call,

I’m starting to put feelers out already for jobs until I’m in a position that I can ultimately start working for myself, sure my plans have now drastically altered because of the position I now find myself in. 

This time around I’m not going to spend nearly 2 years unemployed.