The one major stumbling block in my pathetic attempts to search for work are references or my reluctance to approach anybody that might possibly be able to write one. I don't want to ask favours of people even though they might be all too willing to write one for me. I'm not sure what the legal implications are for an employer if they go ahead and employ somebody without checking references but it doesn't bode well, if after interview, they cannot use their intuition to decide "Hell we'll give this guy or gal a break, if it doesn't work out, we can always fire the son of a bitch". I am advised, 'because I have a Mental Health past not to declare on the application form that I have a history', only to blab once they have offered me the job, and if they backtrack on hearing the shocking news that I was once a 'human that behaved erratically' and not a conformist robot which is required for this job....then I sue their Goddam asses on the grounds of disability discrimination.
So once again we have an example in everyday life where lack of trust in our fellow human, requires us to go to lengthy measures to vet them. I'm not that desperate but I realise that I am required to do something and not waste my life on social media. I am required by convention to do something so I can pay taxes so the 'cuntry' can go and bomb Syria. "Well why don't you write Darling? you are a writer non?" Yes I write but if you start writing seriously then you have to start having a method and a plan, a spreadsheet of deadlines and competitions. You need to be organised and any referree worth their salt would tell you that I'm not. Anyway, writing, like acting is not a proper job. A proper job is gruelling and destroys your soul. Writing and Acting are playing. They are for people who cannot face the drudgery of real work. They are just children playing in a make believe world. I am told anecdotally that if a future employer wants to decide whether to hire you, they just look at your social media history. Well, bring it on big boy! I got some of the best references in the business on there.
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