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Eight Weeks, No Job, No Benefits

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Well after six weeks of extreme frustration of waiting for my job seekers allowance (unemployment benefit in the UK) and in particular the last three weeks when my case was supposed to be sped up, the news isn’t good…

Thursday I heard that at least I passed the Habitual Residency Test, meaning they agree I am a valid resident of the UK,  however I had a call this morning to say that because I hadn’t paid in any contributions while I was in the USA, I don’t qualify for any contribution based benefits.   Damn!   I might however qualify for income based benefits, based on Debbie’s income, but I am sure that’s not going to go in our favour either.   Her earnings are not great, but they are borderline when it comes to receiving benefits.

I have an appointment tomorrow morning, where I have to fill out another set of forms and no doubt do another lot of waiting to see if I qualify.  It’s not good…

Unlike many of these people who are claiming for anything and everything, I just want a JOB!  I need money to survive as well as to cover my commitments.

Yet again, my life turns out to be more than a little complicated…

Wish me luck for the interview tomorrow…

Of course when it comes to job hunting, so far I haven’t seen a single job that I am well suited for, despite my years of experience in IT.  So not a single interview or solid bite so far over the last eight weeks.  After so many years in a successful career, it brings you down when you feel that nobody wants you.  I just keep hoping that any day the perfect opportunity will come along, with the right location, hours of work, and also the right benefits…

She Told Me – This Might Be The One

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Join SheToldMe.comWhile I have been creating web sites for the last 8 years, it has all too often been hard to promote them and also to earn money from them.  In the last two years I signed up with Google Adsense, and added Adsense code blocks to pages on my web sites and also to my blogs, and it definitely does work and has helped to boost my income, however I recently came across a new web site that is helping me to not only promote my web sites more effectively, I get Adsense Adverts placed on every page and I am earning from them too.

The site is called She Told Me, and it’s based on the principle of Adsense Revenue Sharing.

How this works is that you bookmark web sites or pages on She Told Me.  These are called Scoops.   On each page that is generated, there are three Adsense adverts.   One of these will always have your Adsense Id on it, so if anyone clicks on the advert, you earn revenue.    In addition, if you refer someone to She Told Me, one of the Adsense Ads on their pages will also have your Adsense Id on it, for life!

You can also vote for Scoops that you like, and the most popular Scoops are visible on the front page, which greatly adds to the traffic that you can receive.

So why should I sign up with She Told Me?

Well, for a start it’s FREE to join.   Secondly, you can earn extra income through Adsense.   Thirdly, you can bookmark not only your web sites and blogs to gain extra traffic while earning Adsense revenue too, and fourthly you can also bookmark other popular web pages, earning Adsense income through them.

It makes complete sense, and you know what one of the best things is?  You don’t have to wonder whether you will ACTUALLY get paid or not.  Why?  The displays and clicks for your Adsense ads are logged immediately in your Adsense account and trackable through your normal Adsense reporting.  So, you also get paid through Adsense, not through She Told Me

So what are you waiting for?