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Deanosri
18-10-10, 06:00 PM
As title says, job hunting really sucks massive b***s! Ive been out of work since the 8th of October and unable to find a job as of yet. Ive never been out of work in 8 years. Anybody else out of work at the moment? Been keeping busy doing bits here and there and tinkering with my motor but my god...........JOB HUNTING SUCKS!! End of rant
10days,theres poor folk who have been jobless 10months!
and your chosen trade is??????
ive been jobless 6 months now, really do hate, few pals say keep my chin up al get something :)
JordyzNova
18-10-10, 06:10 PM
ive been jobless 6 months now, really do hate, few pals say keep my chin up al get something :)
job less is gay i have been out about the same as you its sucksss . . . no money coming in had to sell me car beacuse i cudnt afford insurance. :cry:
Deanosri
18-10-10, 06:10 PM
Something will come up soon hopefully. Ive an interview on 27th for maintenance man on days so Im going to get my head down and try my best. Im a time served maintenance fitter.
Danb1987
18-10-10, 06:15 PM
I'm in the same position mate! I got finished Friday so it's not really sunk in as of yet.
I'm signing on the dotted line tomorrow for the 1st time in my life! Iv rang round loads of companies and there doesn't seem to be work anywhere!!!
job less is gay i have been out about the same as you its sucksss . . . no money coming in had to sell me car beacuse i cudnt afford insurance. :cry:
i cancled insurance, kept car.
and your chosen trade is??????
When you're unemployed, "anything"!
When you're unemployed, "anything"!
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ben talking to a mate tonight - just come out of 6years at uni doing a law degree and had to sign on, he's got an assesment to be a bus driver tomorrow tho
Well at least if he gets nicked speeding in his bus he'll be in a good position to defend himself in court lol
Danb1987
18-10-10, 06:46 PM
I'm in the same position mate! I got finished Friday so it's not really sunk in as of yet.
I'm signing on the dotted line tomorrow for the 1st time in my life! Iv rang round loads of companies and there doesn't seem to be work anywhere!!!
Danb1987
18-10-10, 06:47 PM
FFs double post sorry..
Danny s-p
18-10-10, 06:51 PM
i have been out work for 3 month now i got hit at work by another member of the work place( long story sort he peed of he not on night's and is on day's makes less money so i am to blame ). hate looking for work i loved fix cars and that before i worked there now hate it and i am half way throe a apprenticeship and can't fined any work :-(
I hated being unemplyed, most depresing thing ever. But in the job center if you look at the option there are jobs with codes on them ( LEP ) which is ment top mean if you ask at the job center and your unemployed you get put straight through to interview for that job instead of having to apply for it then wait for an interview.
stupot89
18-10-10, 06:58 PM
When you're unemployed, "anything"!
i was unemployed for 4 months im a mechanic by trade now work in a pop factory:roll:
claire6069
18-10-10, 07:03 PM
i've just found a job after being on the hunt since april, its not what i wanted but its money and its close to christmas lol
jeez - a law degree and he goes to drive a bus?! thats proper pants!!!
jeez - a law degree and he goes to drive a bus?! thats proper pants!!!
i know someone with a law degree, and she is a cashier at the local petrol station....
colleges have been allowing too many students on courses when they know bloody well that there isn't the need for them...
unfortunately the scales will fall from our eyes soon, and the true unemployment figures will come out.. all the people who have been off on the sick cos iot looked better than being out of work, and fail the assessment will get put on the jobseekers list, and the figure will be immense, and if these people had got the jobs that were about, there would be no 'polish problem'
claire, you'll know this.... how many english work on the fields veg picking round your way?? not very many...
there used to be a travelling workforce in this country, they'd pick fruit, veg, hops, potatoes, work seasonally in factories, and make a living. the only people who do this are from eastern europe, because they do just that back home.
claire, you'll know this.... how many english work on the fields veg picking round your way?? not very many...
there used to be a travelling workforce in this country, they'd pick fruit, veg, hops, potatoes, work seasonally in factories, and make a living. the only people who do this are from eastern europe, because they do just that back home.
so true. a few years ago when i was out of reg work i struggled to get any agency work because they classed all english people as lazy, they knew a bus full of 'foreigners' would be there every day and on time. was quite depressing as i was signing on for agencies that had no interest in getting me work
claire6069
18-10-10, 08:47 PM
claire, you'll know this.... how many english work on the fields veg picking round your way?? not very many...
there used to be a travelling workforce in this country, they'd pick fruit, veg, hops, potatoes, work seasonally in factories, and make a living. the only people who do this are from eastern europe, because they do just that back home.
its bloody full of foreigners round here, thing is, foreigners will do anything for money which is why they get all the sh!t jobs that pay poorly and have long hours, its kinda arrogant of us english to look at jobs like that and think 'the polish will do it' lol but its true, and saves our backs lol
I hated being unemplyed, most depresing thing ever. But in the job center if you look at the option there are jobs with codes on them ( LEP ) which is ment top mean if you ask at the job center and your unemployed you get put straight through to interview for that job instead of having to apply for it then wait for an interview.
lep doesnt exist anymore, thank the tories for that....
its bloody full of foreigners round here, thing is, foreigners will do anything for money which is why they get all the sh!t jobs that pay poorly and have long hours, its kinda arrogant of us english to look at jobs like that and think 'the polish will do it' lol but its true, and saves our backs lol
im gonna go aginst the grain here, refugees (their proper name) will work for min wage, £5.93, because at home they get £2 for the same hours work, and at the end of the day, a job is a job. i see it everyday, far too many brits think they are owed £12 an hour for labouring etc because its "thier country". wake up and smell the coffee, its not gonna happen. employers know they only have to pay NMW, so thats all they will pay. o.p, when in the jobcentre, ask for a list of the weeks jobs, and go through and apply for anything you think you can do. do this every time you go in, if the staff say they cant, they are lying, i do this with my customers, works really well. oh and dont think you can turn down a job as its not good enough, all that will happen is the jcp will top your money for upto 6 months.
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ben talking to a mate tonight - just come out of 6years at uni doing a law degree and had to sign on, he's got an assesment to be a bus driver tomorrow tho
labours fault, push 16 year olds into higher ed to massage unemployed figures, and worry later when they are 6-7 years down the line with a degree yet no jobs available. and then your also over qualified for most stuff. students rock into my office thinking theyre owed a £40k job. i love telling them it isnt going to happen and that asda are taking on. my local asda has 5 peeps who i went to school with who did degrees and cant find jobs. makes me lol everytime im there. im gonna miss my job when ive left....
id easy take a job a polish guy is doing moneys money. thiers a farm near me where they only employ polish workers even tho thier used to be a group of hard working locals who used to always go out in anyweather for some extra money. they only employ polish people thier becouse they can take most of thier money back for rent of a caravan and water and electricity and if they dont take a caravan or a place living on a farm they dont get a job.
MK1_Ben
19-10-10, 07:21 AM
I trained as a mechanic, then due to business slowing down lost my Job at the garage I worked at (was a Subaru specialist, so business goes up and down). Was unemployed for a whole 2 months, which I found completely mind deadening.
Now I've got a Job in an office for sales companies (Amazon, alot of shopping TV Channels, etc), However since stopping working with cars 7 days a week, i've developed a new found interest in working on my own cars which works out alright :).
students rock into my office thinking theyre owed a £40k job. i love telling them it isnt going to happen and that asda are taking on. my local asda has 5 peeps who i went to school with who did degrees and cant find jobs. makes me lol everytime im there. im gonna miss my job when ive left....
Of all the people I went to college with, I think I'm the only one actually working in IT. And I don't see a future in it! Unless I decide to go infosec.
job centre jobs are cr*p, they just try and put you in any old rubbish to get you of the dole, sack it of and start your own business like i did, you can work and earn what you like! also job centre smells of cat food and moth balls around here!
i once worked in an office where if you didn't have a degree, you would never progress above a certain level, but they would poach & employ people without them to higher grade jobs..... thus the man in charge for buying major HGV spares product lines was actually a trained marine biologist..... the crap he bought was incredible... i left as soon as i could...
job centre jobs are cr*p, they just try and put you in any old rubbish to get you of the dole, sack it of and start your own business like i did, you can work and earn what you like! also job centre smells of cat food and moth balls around here!
we got our van driver via an ad in the jobcentre, and even though they told us we couldn't ask for an older person who was physically fit, we ended up with a brilliant load of candidates, and had real trouble narrowing it down to 1.
Off for interview today. so hopefully this maybe my last day of unemployment for the last 6 months..
we got our van driver via an ad in the jobcentre, and even though they told us we couldn't ask for an older person who was physically fit, we ended up with a brilliant load of candidates, and had real trouble narrowing it down to 1.i have got a good job from the job centre once, and then the company went bustlol , the jobs they have there at the moment are complete poo! , so i thought , sod working for anyone again and be your own boss, its the way foward!!
job centre jobs are cr*p, they just try and put you in any old rubbish to get you of the dole, sack it of and start your own business like i did, you can work and earn what you like! also job centre smells of cat food and moth balls around here!
sweeping generalisation of the week....
they dont try to put you in anything, they offer jobs that may be of interest, and match you to the 3 jobs you specify on your job seekers agreement.:thumb:
claire6069
19-10-10, 09:02 AM
i have got a good job from the job centre once, and then the company went bustlol , the jobs they have there at the moment are complete poo! , so i thought , sod working for anyone again and be your own boss, its the way foward!!
totally agree!! the main thing i hate about office work is when you're stuck inside, the suns shining and you're not allowed to enjoy it!! its even worse when theres nothing to do and you have to make yourself look busy! own boss ftw, work when you want, have breaks when you want and take no crap off no one lol however, for me, unless i win the lottery, this wont happen :( only thing i'd ever run a business for is a livery yard or riding school and i dont have the money to buy the land, build stables and sand schools and buy horses :(
sweeping generalisation of the week....
they dont try to put you in anything, they offer jobs that may be of interest, and match you to the 3 jobs you specify on your job seekers agreement.:thumb:ok.
I'm going to be a bit controversial and say if I was in charge there would be no dole - you work or you don't eat - end of.
There's not that many ppl that are happy with our jobs and how much we earn, so thats not an excuse - you go to work to work, if it's fun then you are lucky.
+ rep prey. it makes me lol, as when my dad had to claim in 83, he got £38 per 2 weeks for him, mum, and 3 kids. no extras no top ups. and we were ok. its too easy now, fingers crossed when it all changes to universal credit, it will be less cahs, and more strict...
I quite happy with my work tbh, work 152 12hour shifts per year for £28k.
But let's be honest the mass influx of eastern Europeans has ruined the job situation for ever, gone are the days of someone getting a job for a few weeks for extra cash, or seasonal work.
Employment agencies are only interested in signing up Polish etc, prime example of this is a mate went into the agency that supplies where I work with personel, got told there was nothing available, then two Polish chaps start on my shift, they had been in the country 2 days !!!!!! WTF :mad:
claire6069
19-10-10, 09:34 AM
I'm going to be a bit controversial and say if I was in charge there would be no dole - you work or you don't eat - end of.
There's not that many ppl that are happy with our jobs and how much we earn, so thats not an excuse - you go to work to work, if it's fun then you are lucky.
im afraid its not always that clear cut!! what about single mums for example? once your child reaches school age, the jobs you can do are really limited if you're in a situation like me and you literally have no one to fetch them from or take them to school for you so you can do a 9-5 job, it doesnt work as easy as 'job or no food', you cant do cleaning jobs because who looks after the child at 6am and 6pm so you can go do that? and realisitically, what employers nowadays offer hours of 10am - 2pm to fit around school?? i'm having to drag alfie out of school at 1pm so i can go to work for 2pm, how is that fair on his education and how bad do you think that makes me feel towards alfie and how bad does it look to the teachers??
i appreciate where you're coming from in terms of people living off the state but i do think, no offence, its a bit narrow minded as well!
unfortunately, the successive governments of this country have given so much as election pledges over the years, that it is all but impossible to take it back. the nationalised industries were job dumps for the unemployed, and had huge overstaffing, rover group failed as did the rest of our heavy industry because they were producing barely adequate stuff that cost twice as much as decent foreign stuff.......
there were several generations of people who marked time at school because they knew they'd be following their father into the pit or whatever, and this has led to a massive skills shortage that means there really aren't enough tradesmen in this country... and so on, but there is no public funding to create new tradesmen to the levels that will be needed in years to come, because new labour wanted everyone to have a degree level education... seriously, 10000 people doing media studies was bound to be a disaster.
Then they let all the Polish in ffs, how I loved the years of new Labour :roll:
media sudies = doss course. i once told a media studies student that their course was a qualification in watching tv and wannking. she wasnt happy. and tbh we haven't felt the bg pinch yet, which comes when all the students that are at uni and higher ed atm come into the job market with tinpot degrees and over optimistic expectations. and sit on the dole for years on end. its real world experience and decent usefull quals that are needed atm, and they are in short supply. i hate to say this but this countrys fooked. it will be 20-30 years before its stable and unemployment is below 1 million.
im afraid its not always that clear cut!! what about single mums for example? once your child reaches school age, the jobs you can do are really limited if you're in a situation like me and you literally have no one to fetch them from or take them to school for you so you can do a 9-5 job, it doesnt work as easy as 'job or no food', you cant do cleaning jobs because who looks after the child at 6am and 6pm so you can go do that? and realisitically, what employers nowadays offer hours of 10am - 2pm to fit around school?? i'm having to drag alfie out of school at 1pm so i can go to work for 2pm, how is that fair on his education and how bad do you think that makes me feel towards alfie and how bad does it look to the teachers??
i appreciate where you're coming from in terms of people living off the state but i do think, no offence, its a bit narrow minded as well!
I wouldnt disagree with me being narrow minded - but i do know single mums who work office jobs and pay childcare, not saying it works for everyone though - it wasnt an attack at your situation - I dont even know you so please don't think I would do that.
Dole is also a bit different to benefits for say disability or childcare etc.
I do however attack anyone who doesnt want to do x job or y job because its boring, or below them, or doesnt pay what they think is enough. And there are jobs out there - sometimes you have to be a bit more creative than turning up at the jobcentre when they tell you though.
omfg, prey, can you come and talk to my customers? lol
works work, if it pays the bills, i'll happily shovel **** or be a giggolo to grannies.
being your own boss might sound ace on paper, but you have 100% liability/responsability should things go wrong (eg no work etc)..... I'd only ever start on my own if there was a nice fat wedge of cash sat in the background for emergencies (or the house paid off).
A job is a job, I took what I'm doing now as it was a certain 10% paycut rather than a random 20% paycut at the time... I hate it, but it pays the bills and I have now found a new job that will make me oh so happy and its a mild payrise too so win win.
If need be, I would make sandwiches in SubWay (they'd probably sack me as I'd eat as much as I made lol), stack shelves in tescos, kiss old ladies for £1 a go etc.... money is money at the end of the day and unfortunately a certain ammount of it makes the world go round.
I worked on a farm during uni holidays and it turned out the farm had to employ 2 sarf ifricans to replce me as 1 couldnt keep up lol... that was a mere £6 per hour and some weeks were 100hrs a week :)
+ rep prey. it makes me lol, as when my dad had to claim in 83, he got £38 per 2 weeks for him, mum, and 3 kids. no extras no top ups. and we were ok.
To be fair though, the average wage in the UK was £7,700 in 1983, so that £38 would have been comparitively a lot better than say, £100 today.
they dont try to put you in anything, they offer jobs that may be of interest, and match you to the 3 jobs you specify on your job seekers agreement.
The one single experience I had with the job centre was once I finished my HND. Just in case jobs were thin on the ground, I signed up with them and on my first (and only) visit, they made me fill out all these forms about my preferences and skills. Then sat me down in a telephone booth with a list of totally unrelated jobs, most of which were in Bristol, and I had to phone the places to see if they would be interested in having a copy of my CV.
After an hour I gave up as they were a) rubbish jobs, and b) most of them weren't interested in having my CV. Two days later, the local rag came out with a job in the local council doing DBA - applied and got the job. Informed the job centre, yet for about a month after I started there, they STILL kept hassling me with totally useless jobs. I kept an eye on the local job scene for a while, and not one of the IT related jobs that came up were suggested by the job centre!
Thats my experience from a few years back, so I wouldn't be too trustworthy of having to rely on them again. Oh, and the fcukers never replaced my NI card when I lost my wallet!
/rant lol
what employers nowadays offer hours of 10am - 2pm to fit around school??
Civil service! :d
£38 jac, not £83, ;)
good luck getting into the civil mate..... recruitment freeze atm unless you wanna get shot in iraqistan for fook all.
/\ school catering staff.........
some decent hospitals.
£38 jac, not £83, ;)
good luck getting into the civil mate..... recruitment freeze atm unless you wanna get shot in iraqistan for fook all.
Sorry, typo on my part lol
Recruitment freeze my ****. There's jobs out there if you know where to look (sure not as many as there was, but still plenty). And Afghan for fcuk all, I guess you haven't seen how much a civvy could earn on a 6 month deployment then!
mate seriously, in jcp, hmrc, and all the other major civil service businesses theres a recruitment freeze. as for iraq etc, i see the point of being a civvy out there, i meant a gun toting soldier. ;)
claire6069
21-10-10, 09:14 PM
I wouldnt disagree with me being narrow minded - but i do know single mums who work office jobs and pay childcare, not saying it works for everyone though - it wasnt an attack at your situation - I dont even know you so please don't think I would do that.
Dole is also a bit different to benefits for say disability or childcare etc.
I do however attack anyone who doesnt want to do x job or y job because its boring, or below them, or doesnt pay what they think is enough. And there are jobs out there - sometimes you have to be a bit more creative than turning up at the jobcentre when they tell you though.
no i didnt take it as a personal dig, i took it as a clear cut work or no food regardless of your situation which is why i explained my situation!
i totally agree with people that dont want to work not being given any money, i've seen it on loads of benefit programs where people are saying that they purposefully dont work because they dont see why they should, doesnt pose a good future for this country!!
im afraid its not always that clear cut!! what about single mums for example? once your child reaches school age, the jobs you can do are really limited if you're in a situation like me and you literally have no one to fetch them from or take them to school for you so you can do a 9-5 job, it doesnt work as easy as 'job or no food'
i appreciate where you're coming from in terms of people living off the state but i do think, no offence, its a bit narrow minded as well!
Agreed and plus it come's down to wether a job you're going to take is going to take care of childcare costs as well as give you some money to survive on. There's no point going back to work just to "have a job" if it's going to leave you in the same position as before where you have to claim benefits. :)
People that don't work just because they can't be bothered or a job is below them is a completely different matter and they don't deserve anything!
mate seriously, in jcp, hmrc, and all the other major civil service businesses theres a recruitment freeze.
Wasn't denying that, merely pointing out even with the freeze there's still jobs available - the freeze just means stuff has to trawl through the RDP for longer and they're scrutinizing anything that needs to go outside. CSJ site still has a decent wadge of jobs on it, granted not as many as a few years back but still.
Its rediculous though, as I've mentioned before its made us lot be unable to recruit a couple of E1s (c.£15k) so we've been forced to get manpower subs, at about £35k apiece. lol
my missus works on a none surgical ward, and they are desperate for staff... the trust won't recruit, but will hire in agency at 3 times the price.
Deanosri
22-10-10, 04:14 PM
Went to officially sign on this morning and was pretty freaked out when i got there (blackburn job centre)! The sort of people that were queing to get inside at 9am this morning was like standing back and looking at the winchester from a distance in the final scenes of shaun of the dead! where do these horrible drug riddled scrounging drongos come from??! It made for a pretty uncomfortable interview to say the least, was so happy to get out of there. Plus there was a bomb scare exercise haha the majority of them couldn't wait to get outside for a cancer stick
Went to officially sign on this morning and was pretty freaked out when i got there (blackburn job centre)! The sort of people that were queing to get inside at 9am this morning was like standing back and looking at the winchester from a distance in the final scenes of shaun of the dead! where do these horrible drug riddled scrounging drongos come from??! It made for a pretty uncomfortable interview to say the least, was so happy to get out of there. Plus there was a bomb scare exercise haha the majority of them couldn't wait to get outside for a cancer stick
The few times i've had to go i've been a nervous wreck. It's quite scary having to walk past a bunch of drugged up low lifes leering at you.
they closed the atherstone dole office, and reopened it as a wine bar!!!! called Berties.... i went in there once, just when it opened, and there were a group of people hanging round that looked like they were waiting to be called for interview... they weren't in going out clothes
my missus works on a none surgical ward, and they are desperate for staff... the trust won't recruit, but will hire in agency at 3 times the price.
my brother does shifts for the bank (nhs agency i think) and at the moment hes finding it impossible to get any shifts even though he knows the wards are understaffed because he works in the hospitals all day as he is a med student.
the bank is the nhs's own extra shift dept.. the wages are not much better and usually the agency gets in with the management....
a manager decreed the ward my missus had been assessed & was perfectly safe to cut it from 4 staff to 3 last year... it then had a 30% increase in patients, and recently the trust's senior nurse re-assessed it back to 4.
but the trusts aren't hiring even though they pay 3 times more....and they think this is fine.......
Went to officially sign on this morning and was pretty freaked out when i got there (blackburn job centre)! The sort of people that were queing to get inside at 9am this morning was like standing back and looking at the winchester from a distance in the final scenes of shaun of the dead! where do these horrible drug riddled scrounging drongos come from??! It made for a pretty uncomfortable interview to say the least, was so happy to get out of there. Plus there was a bomb scare exercise haha the majority of them couldn't wait to get outside for a cancer stickjob centre smells of poo here!
not a lot of work anywhere, trade or no trade.
iv been out of work for 6/7 months, seems like there's more months to come.
only thing you can do is keep hunting as sh*t as it is :(
job centre smells of poo here!
lol i think it's the same everywhere
/\ plenty of work around, your either in the wrong trade or the wrong place.
yeah there's work, i dont have a trade though.
and ofc everyone else is applying for every job so chances are slim for me except having a well written cv and not bad work experience
yeah there's work, i dont have a trade though.
and ofc everyone else is applying for every job so chances are slim for me except having a well written cv and not bad work experience
couple of jobs at my place mate - get yourself to skymark packaging solutions on manners industrial estate ilkeston and ask for an application form regarding the NGR operator vacancy
no experience needed
I don't get how people can say there's no work. I was talking to my brother about this earlier on. He's on the dole and was saying he can't find a job. There are a shed load of christmas temp jobs going! No they're not ideal but it's a job to get you through whilst you look for something else.
claire6069
23-10-10, 11:54 AM
maccyds and such like are always hiring!!
maccyds and such like are always hiring!!
my missus worked on a mcd when she was a student nurse. when she qualified, her & a co worker were offered places on the management training scheme. the missus declined. the co worker accepted, & has been earning around £50k running a group of maccy d's.......... my missus still wishes she had accepted it...
my missus worked on a mcd when she was a student nurse. when she qualified, her & a co worker were offered places on the management training scheme. the missus declined. the co worker accepted, & has been earning around £50k running a group of maccy d's.......... my missus still wishes she had accepted it...
a lad who has just started in the navy with my mate has said that he will be leaving the navy in 5years to have a career managing a maccies, only he reason he's in the navy is becasue he will get the qualifications quicker than he would at macdonalds (and the travel bit)
perfect plan imo, spend 5years partying round the world then get a job as a manager on like you say 50kPA
i went for an interview last week and the bloke couldnt understand why im leaving a job as an operator to start as a labourer/bottom rung again (same industry but different process) untill i told him the wages were only £20 a week less and id have loads more prospects. really winds me up our company pay well below the industry average, got a 'meeting' tonight to discuss a payrise but ive already been told i cant have it becasue of 1 AWOL shift this year :roll:
a lad who has just started in the navy with my mate has said that he will be leaving the navy in 5years to have a career managing a maccies, only he reason he's in the navy is becasue he will get the qualifications quicker than he would at macdonalds (and the travel bit)
perfect plan imo, spend 5years partying round the world then get a job as a manager on like you say 50kPA
i went for an interview last week and the bloke couldnt understand why im leaving a job as an operator to start as a labourer/bottom rung again (same industry but different process) untill i told him the wages were only £20 a week less and id have loads more prospects. really winds me up our company pay well below the industry average, got a 'meeting' tonight to discuss a payrise but ive already been told i cant have it becasue of 1 AWOL shift this year :roll:
Theres a high demand of rentboys in derby draper if it all falls through, i could hook you up with some clients lol
scott.parker
23-10-10, 05:20 PM
I was out of work for around 6 months in end of 08 start of 09, but got my current job in July, started day after billing year, so been there just over a year now, and it's the best job Ive ever had, lucky i got it really..
Theres a high demand of rentboys in derby draper if it all falls through, i could hook you up with some clients lol
dont wanna take work off you tho mate ;)
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