Hey, Dear Readers! It's me again! Here's my second entry for the day! I guess I have a bit of time in-between making dinner and stuff... Here goes... I HAVE A VALENTINE'S DATE Hurrah! Well, my Valentine's Date is with my new work coach! She's gorgeous! Next week Tuesday is my next appointment with her! Okay, it's not exactly a date. I wish! No money. No significant other! Having said that, I have to admit to thinking that some people just breed when they aren't in a position to bring up a child or children. Mind you, I don't see many impoverished single mothers these days. I wonder if they have been ethnically cleansed from London... Hmmm... Still, for some reason unknown to mankind, I do think that love can inspire greatness and bring it out in some people. If I had a child today that would be even more of a reason to pull myself together! Yes, even though I know that Valentine's Day is a means to sell greetings cards, flowers, chocolates, etc, I hate the thought of being a singleton yet again! SACRIFICES I have made a few sacrifices to be my own man and I am hacked off that I have not achieved what I set out to achieve. I was supposed to be solvent already! One of the few sacrifices I consciously made was not to get involved with women. You can't live a champagne life on soda pop money! And I have also wanted to be a father... I personally wanted to be my own man so that my child or children can look up to me as an example of what happens when you work hard. Trust me, I have worked hard on my self-employment projects only to see the last project shot down in flames by the wretched Tax Credits Office. Yeah, in 2013 I signed off, on my own volition, to cease my Job Seekers Allowance to be self-employed. Sure, I had to rely on Working Tax Credit in order to support myself while I built the business. Look at it this way, I did not swap Job Seekers Allowance for Working Tax Credit just so that I could avoid looking for work. No! Self-employment is very much hard work! I worked hard and things were starting to happen... However, the Tax Credits Office just decided to pull the Working Tax Credit rug from underneath me. I had to make a new claim for Working Tax Credit in November 2015 and waited until January 2016 to be denied. The reasons for the denial was based on a bunch of lies. Nonetheless, I had to sign up, albeit reluctantly, to Universal Credit. A MATCH MADE IN HELL Yes, that's right... I am on about my former work coach who is, in fact, a work coax. I met this woman briefly back in 2013 and I did not think much of her then and my thoughts of her today is a lot less. I did, however, think "bygones" let the past remain where it is. Sadly, this work coax, "Tricky Vicky" turned out to be a nightmare. In every aspect of her job, she scores a big fat zero. Zero: Listening skills, intelligence, empathy and ability to motivate. Zero + Zero = ZERO! As I have said before, I tried to help this woman to help me (find work) and all she could do was to sabotage my efforts either consciously or subconsciously. The argument for consciously: It could be that she thought that my efforts to find work through an employer or self-employment was a means of dodging work. In tiny mind, she thought that I was applying to jobs that I consciously thought I had no chance of getting. And that my attempt to be self-employed was another ploy to avoid looking for work. Nothing could be further from the truth. I put heart into everything that I do! The argument for subconscious... Perhaps she felt a little dumb as I told her things that seemed to be beyond her grasp and that her way of grasping these concepts was for her to reinterpret what I was saying into something tangible such as a CV where there couldn't possibly be a CV. Things that should make sense simply did not make sense to her. After engineering a 28-day sanction against me, she had to go! BLISS As I have stated earlier and in other updates, I have a wonderful new work coach. I am very, very happy with her. She listens and she's very helpful. She's all that you could want in a work coach! I have dubbed her "Keep It Simple Susan" and on an off day she becomes "Stephanie Stepford DWP/JCP Wife". Earlier on today, she was Keep It Simple Susan and very helpful. I am in huge financial trouble and my new work coach made some suggestions to help me overcome my shortcomings. The punchline is that it is down to my former work coax and her dodgy line manager why I am in serious financial trouble. But what can I do other than to (a) make a complaint to the appropriate channel and (b) invoke a tribunal to get the stolen Welfare Assistance back? Oh, my new work coach looked into the system to see if my Mandatory Reconsideration Notices have had a response... NOTHING!!! From the 30 November 2016 until now, 06 February 2017! It is shameful! In the meantime, I continue to suffer! WHAT? NO CV? If you have been following my updates, you'd know that my former work coax gave me the impossible task of creating two CVs: one for the purpose of being a Vegan Chef/Cook and the other for Customer Services. If I have said it once, I must have said it a thousand times already: I HAVE NO EXPERIENCE IN CUSTOMER SERVICES & ONE JOB AS A SALAD CHEF! HOW ON EARTH AM I SUPPOSED TO MAKE TWO BLOODY CVs??? However, in order to get the freaking HardShit Fund, I was forced to add the titles 'Vegan Chef' & 'Customer Services' to my IT, Graphic & Multimedia Design CV. When I met my new work coach, 04 January 2017, she told me that the CVs were "substandard". I was so happy to hear those words. My new work coach has a brain! Hurrah! I put it to her and the line manager, "Just how am I supposed to make a CV with little or no actual job experiences?" They couldn't answer me. Still, I did divulge my idea with regards to creating a presentation for the purpose of getting a job as a Vegan Chef/Cook. Thankfully, I am allowed to work on the presentation. It is getting there... Maybe I will link it once it is done... I don't know yet. Anyhoo, the wizard, who I have dubbed "Merlin," who works in the National Careers Service has been unable to come up with these CVs. And if anyone can, Merlin can because he's a very intelligent man. He knows his profession. The work coaxes don't have any knowledge as they are just drafted on to do the dog work. Of course, you can get some actual work coaches who are intelligent enough to listen to the clientele who have their own ideas on how to proceed or require specialist help. Once again, for those who do not know and are in a position to know, the work coach (coax) should not be in a position to tell the clientele what to do. No! The work coach (coax) can make suggestions and point out agreed jobs to apply to but they should never be in a position to tell the clientele to apply to jobs they have no interest in. Let me tell you something right now... I have worked hard to ensure that I have a career. It is our Human Right to have a choice in how we live our lives, otherwise, we will have our National Insurance Numbers tattooed on her bodies, Arbeit Macht Frei style. There is no way on God's Green Earth that I am going to let someone who does not give a shit about me decide what I do for a vocation. I am talking about my former useless work coax, Ticky Vicky! Because I won't bow to the idiotic does not mean to say that I should have been sanctioned. That's fascism. It makes me laugh when UK MPs go on about the holocaust yet do not see what the hell is going on right in front of their noses! I am beginning to think that there is no opposition to this freaking foolishness! God, help us! God, help us all! Thank you for reading!