I worked in a job centre 10 years ago, it stopped being about helping people and more a daily puzzle of trying to figure out who was lying to me or not.
Been neet for a while.
My current issue: driving license is an essential prerequisite for many jobs and apprenticeships I would very much like to take on, particularly in the trades sector, but I simply can’t afford it.
Despite being essential, much like literacy, driving lessons have 0 state support. I tried asking my job coach if there’s help available, but he simply said that driving license support is a very frequent topic, but unfortunately no help is available.
I have no family connections to help me out learning driving, and shelling out ~£2000 for a driving instructor’s lessons is out of the question. I get £660/month on Universal credit, £250 leftover after just the rent for a room in a shared house. The economics are impossible.
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I worked in a job centre 10 years ago, it stopped being about helping people and more a daily puzzle of trying to figure out who was lying to me or not.
Been neet for a while.
My current issue: driving license is an essential prerequisite for many jobs and apprenticeships I would very much like to take on, particularly in the trades sector, but I simply can’t afford it.
Despite being essential, much like literacy, driving lessons have 0 state support. I tried asking my job coach if there’s help available, but he simply said that driving license support is a very frequent topic, but unfortunately no help is available.
I have no family connections to help me out learning driving, and shelling out ~£2000 for a driving instructor’s lessons is out of the question. I get £660/month on Universal credit, £250 leftover after just the rent for a room in a shared house. The economics are impossible.