Where's tea bag?

[Martyn Leeds]

So in a nutshell its the same situation as it was 12 months ago.
Surely someone else mentioned college ages ago, and been un-employed that's the ideal time to get courses for free..

 

[jonnyc]

Ash this is just awful.
I think I can say that all we members are rooting for you.
i guess that the one stumbling block for you is that you probably get benefits to support you and your family and if you lose those whilst trying to make a living then you are trumped until you can cover those benefits .
But the fact is that you really want to do it.

 

[Mr Tiler]

strangely martyn it is not... i have had my cscs card about 4 or 5 months now but it i cant use it as a tradesman its only a labourers card. in a nut shell yes it is the same but what could i have done more martyn? beleive it or not the courses this crap government put people on are terrible i completed a course with them a few years back now which was basically a ridiculous 3 day driving lesson in a f.l.t and walked away thinking i could go off and be a fork lift driver... turns out what i done was a waste of 3 days as i cant use it anywhere at all and beleive me ive tried so that is the sort of quality you get from them mate.

 

[Mr Tiler]

and im not allowed to go on a 4 week tiling course as it is not coverd by the benefits i can only go on a 4 week course that is 2 weeks plastering, one week plumbing and one week tiling and it wont be enough as i know for a fact i already know what will be covered.

 

[Mr Tiler]

Ash this is just awful.
I think I can say that all we members are rooting for you.
i guess that the one stumbling block for you is that you probably get benefits to support you and your family and if you lose those whilst trying to make a living then you are trumped until you can cover those benefits .
But the fact is that you really want to do it.

yeh mate i think it is just gonna be a struggle and it hasnt gone to plan but iu can cope with the real world i hope... i am still booked to do the showroom so hopefully it will bring a fair bit of work if i can manage to impress with my tiling... if not i will go and jump off a building being the failed father i am!

 

[Chalker]

They don't make it easy to get off the dole!

 

[Martyn Leeds]

2 weeks plastering, one week plumbing and one week tiling and it wont be enough as i know for a fact i already know what will be covered.

This type of course would've helped increase your basic knowledge and skills that are sometimes needed for prep, removing toilets/sinks, boarding walls... all the type of stuff you've asked about over the last few months.

Chicken and egg though with needing work, but needing experience to get work.

But its usually easier to find work when you're in work - ie. Any work. Paid employment, whilst persuing dreams on a weekend/evenings etc. As in, some of the folk that decide on a career change etc, but have the option and a Plan B to fall back on. Instead of having 1 egg in 1 big basket

 

[Rookery]

Ash, how far are you prepared to travel?

 

[jonnyc]

yeh mate i think it is just gonna be a struggle and it hasnt gone to plan but iu can cope with the real world i hope... i am still booked to do the showroom so hopefully it will bring a fair bit of work if i can manage to impress with my tiling... if not i will go and jump off a building being the failed father i am!

Ash not keen on the last sentence.
your family will never have been prouder than what you are doing now.
I actually need to find one of my best friends who started me in tiling in first place .
unfortunately he is living rough on the street in Birmingham . I don't know exactly where but he is in a very bad way and I have to find him very soon.

 

[Mr Tiler]

Ash, how far are you prepared to travel?

the bluddy worlds end as long as i can get some work mate lol id travel an hour each way its just the cost of that travel and the car im in rite now i dont know how long it would last lol

 

[Mr Tiler]

Ash not keen on the last sentence.
your family will never have been prouder than what you are doing now.
I actually need to find one of my best friends who started me in tiling in first place .
unfortunately he is living rough on the street in Birmingham . I don't know exactly where but he is in a very bad way and I have to find him very soon.

im only jokin buddy but my whole life has stopped for the last 12 months and i dont know if i could even settle in a factory now i know what i want to do in life im not the best but i try just as hard to be.

 

[Mr Tiler]

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[jonnyc]

Well I am being very serious when I say that I would appreciate any info about where guys sleep rough at night in Birmingham area. This is not an area I know at all

 

[Mr Tiler]

sorry buddy maybe try calling the ymca and other places see if he has some accomodation up there

 

[jonnyc]

I have spoken with hostels this week and worryingly they said they thought he had died.
spoken with his father who lives in Hollywood I think and he not heard for 9 months.
i will be coming up next week and just doing the streets .
Would be useful if anyone can give me points where homeless meet up in Birmingham .food points ,. Clothes hand out places .
been a long time since I have been on the streets surviving but I know the habits .just don't think I have enough time to pinpoint him in a week.
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