What's occurring?

Some of you may be wondering whether I have found a job yet. The answer, as the total overhaul of McCarthy Industries suggests, is a very simple no. The total redesign of the site has been my way of staving off the boredom that working for 8 hours a week in a petrol station brings to you. I am a 2:1 Bachelor of Arts, yet find myself unemployed. Fan-bloody-tastic

Tom McCarthy himself raised an interesting point the other day when he questioned why I don't sign on. Indeed, I could make more money on the dole than I do with my eight hours a week of work. The simple answer is that I do not wish to take the governments money if I am indeed able to hold down a job. Sadly, this is not true of my fellow human beings

The most amusing part about that is, of course, that these are normally the same people who support the BNP and complain that they can't get a job because of immigrants. A closer examination of the jobs that these chaps from foreign countries do indicates that this simply not true - for example, the dole-queuing Brit is unqualified as a doctor or in a manual trade, so can't have one of those jobs. And they think that, more often than not, jobs such as road sweeps, McDonalds workers, and dare McCarthy say it, petrol station employer is below them. The fact is listeners there are jobs out there but the unqualified person believes themselves to be better than it - and so they remain on benefits (thankfully, this trend looks like it is going to be resolved by George Osborne and the cuts to the welfare state which are frankly well overdue)

This is, from the point of view of a BA with a 2:1 degree, very frustrating. Depressing even. But, we must nonetheless soldier on in the vain hope that, one day, a position will become available and I begin to pay back my debt to society in terms of the large sums of money owed thanks to student grants. And if not, then expect McCarthy Industries to have another total overhaul in about two months time