I worked on building sites when I finished university
Which was fine, but after a year or so I decided I wanted to study music. After 6 months of signing on and studying a course not recognised as education, I was required by law to work for 4 days a week in a warehouse for free, which was run by 2 really bad guys. They would visit prostitutes during the day while I used the yellow pages to try and sell their knock-off goods. They sexually abused a 16 year old girl I worked with and the job centre accused me of lying "to get out of working" when I went in all guns blazing. Then I was sacked (if you can be sacked from a job you don't get paid for. I was lucky to come out of the whole thing and find a decent path, but they almost ruined me financially, and as a person.
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Also, the job centre always made it clear they believed I was trying to get out of working
The good news is, despite them actively trying to negate my ambition, I have spent the last 7 years achieving what what I wanted, and paying lots of tax. Blam.
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