Letter: Lottery win easier than finding a job

Letter: I have been out of work since the end of last year.

It's demoralising to go into the JobCentre every two weeks and to try and manage each week as well as keep up the flow of applications and keep motivated.

As a mature guy I am finding it especially hard when all my life I have been hard working and industrious.

I am finding even though I have all the technology to assist me most employers do not have the courtesy to e-mail/contact applicants to just say whether one has been successful or not.

Other areas where employers fall down from my experience is not describing the job properly. I have wasted both time and money travelling to interviews only to be told, "sorry to have wasted your time, but . . ."

And I also get the feeling that other factors come into their decision making. When you get the "I have other people to see" or "What age are you?", they don't bother writing down notes.

I put 100 per cent of effort into looking for work, from dressing the part, to following up my applications and for what? Maybe I will win the lottery one day and get an employer to give me a chance.

Yes, fat chance. I will probably have more luck with Camelot first, hey?

Kenneth Poole

Shrewsbury