Day 1

Age: 24
Employment Status: unemployed, actively looking.

This is the first time I have found myself in this position in life, with going to the job center the main event in my day. In a workplace one day and signing on the next, typical day for many young people in Scotland.

I was fortunate enough after school to go to college and university and educate myself, graduating in 2014 with an honours degree in journalism. I have always worked since my national insurance number was issued and my parents told me I would have to work to support myself.

That's when my work ethic was born.

Its writing that what I would say I do best, hence why I am sharing my experience of my recent employment situation online through this blog.
I want to help others that are in the same boat as me and have found themselves out of work for the first or another time in their life.

I understand we now live in the age where zero-hour contracts are considered normal and temporary contracts are what some people are expected to work on. There's always that uncertainty that your contract can be terminated and you will find yourselves back at square one, job hunting and putting off future plans. That's what 2016 has been like for me, I left a good job as a Clerical Assistant to work for a private company on the basis of permanent work and was paid off after a three month probation period. If you're permanent in a job you like then you're one of the lucky ones our current economically challenged society.
However, for me and others the search for a career path or job you enjoy and wish to progress in with seems at times a thing of the past.