Work that doesn't need a CV, an interview or references

 

Work that doesn't need a CV, an interview or references

It's a cold, bald morning in Christendom and I have just put the above into the Google Search engine. I have been here many times before and I don't know why I should bother you with it but hey ho, a blogger's life is not always one of champagne and canapes. Sometimes we have to investigate our existential belly buttons and get real. The trouble is, I don't want to get real. Real is conformity, real is 9-5. I have been unemployed for sixteen years. On my CV I would put, served a four and a half month stretch, not for slapping Emmanuel Macron but for threatening to explode an invisible bomb in a bank in Hilversum, the Netherlands. The references I could provide would possibly be my prison guards and my psychiatrist. My Occupational Therapist from that period has just written a note to the DWP telling them that I was being treated for Bipolar Disorder and therefore my judgement could be called 'suspect' when it comes to claiming benefits.

I could go self employed but that means registering with the HMRC and I did that before and got into trouble with late returns and declarations. What is a middle aged man with a paunch to do?

I don't want to sign on for Job Seeker's Allowance because you have to prove that you are looking for work and applying for jobs. I just want a Universal Basic Income to protect my mental health but that is never going to happen in our post industrial revolution world.     

Don't laugh but I even put "What shall I do with the rest of my life" into the Google search engine. The quest and yearning for meaning is the same for an 18 year old as it is for a 55 year old, it's just that the latter has less time to fuck it up again. 37 years wasted. 37 years of handing control and power over to the Medical profession who are as clueless as you and I. They are just flawed human beings like the rest of us. They've just trained longer and harder and earn more.

I'm trying to hand it over to God but what if God doesn't exist as we are barracked by militant humanist and atheists into believing. Spending your life on a couch in a mental health drop in center drinking coffee and munching custard creams has no more value than a life spent in going to church on a Sunday. Both have handed the responsibility of sorting their life out to somebody else. The community mental health team in the first instance and God in the second. Neither have the answers, but both can afford you a bit of relief and respite and there's nowt wrong with that, unless you overdo it.   

When so many people have perished in the pandemic it feels selfish and self obsessed to continually be asking these questions but I would like an answer to the the question 

"Can I get work that doesn't need a CV, interview or references please?"