Work for the dole

Well… I thought that sim­ple being on the dole was enough of a degrag­ing and humil­i­at­ing expe­ri­ence… but some­how the Aus­tralian Gov­ern­ment man­aged to make it just that much work. By mak­ing me have to work for the priv­eledge of not earn­ing enough to cov­er the basic bills.
So here I am, using a 250 MHz Pen­tium 2, which is the most usable com­put­er here only because the oth­er here knew what the pass­word to get into this one was, it still has a hab­bit of crash­ing just before i hit ‘save’.
I’m being forced to work on a project that is so far below my skill lev­el its not even com­i­cal, being forced to work with peo­ple that think ‘more gif ani­ma­tions is the way to imporve a web site’, and being forced to grin and bear it. Whilst at the same time being expect­ed to look for a real job, and every­one thinks that I’ll be proud of the work I do here, they actu­al­ly expect I’ll list it on my resume. To my mind it would have much the same effect as list­ing prison time on a resume…
Man… I need a job… any­one wan­na hire a l33t compy guru?

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  1. I am in much the same sit­u­a­tion. An IT degree from Curtin and no one will give you the time of day. I am seri­ous­ly con­sid­er­ing drop­ping any con­tact with Cen­tre­link and just sell­ing what assets I have and leav­ing Perth alto­geth­er.

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