It’s been a while for a rant and I cant believe I blogged yesterday and I have need for another blog today. I was listening to the news today and I really cannot believe the time and effort our police ‘service’ waste on stupid wasteful meaningless tasks. My first point there is going to be who decided to change the name? It used to be “Police Force” Force is a much stronger word and changing it to ‘Service’ is so bloody gay, its makes our police out to be a bunch of ponces and lets be honest, most are! They employ people called “Diversity inclusion officers” to make sure that the ‘service’ has plenty of gay & lesbian people signing up. I have nothing against gay and lesbian people don’t get me wrong but I don’t want to become one just to be able to get a job as a police officer its pathetic!

Back to the main point though, I have mentioned before that our prisons are busting at the seams so the government are releasing people back into society because they have served long enough, never mind that they might have killed a few people, raped a few people, molested some children, they are no longer deemed a danger so they get released, I can’t remember the statistics for re-offending I have read it somewhere and it is really, really high yet still they are continuing the early release programme, its shocking. So with this you think the police ‘service’ would be overrun with problems, from people re-offending to the new knife and gun crimes that are happening daily at the moment. I am certain that if I was in the police force I would be concentrating on catching criminals. The people who disrupt lives from the “minor” crime of burglary to murder they are the people I would want to be catching and surely every other police officer in the land would want to be catching and locking up these criminals – yes?

No.

Birmingham police force has today announced a major crackdown on…………….. Nuisance car drivers those men who hang out of the car window and wolf whistle at women. OH MY FUCKING GOD, do they really have NOTHING better to do with their time? I am pretty sure that even the women being whistled at would tell the police to get on with something worthwhile. I know I blogged about how could I waste my day yesterday but if I was a police officer I wouldn’t think that I would have enough time in the day to waste doing stupid tasks like this! They have actually cautioned two people for having their car stereo too loud!!! I just want to scream so much!! It was only about 4 years ago I wanted to be in the police and I came pretty close to joining, however, I wasn’t black, gay, under 5ft 4, overweight or disabled in any way, so didn’t fit into the diversity inclusion model. So much of me now though is really glad that I didn’t get in, I wouldn’t want to be cautioning people for playing music! I would want to be chasing people down alleyways because they have just robbed a post office, catching the bastard and putting my foot into his head to stop him that is what I look for in a policeman. Not someone who stands still while Muslims burn the English flag in front of him, not someone who can’t put handcuffs on a criminal for fear of being sued for harassment, certainly not someone who arrests a bloke for wolf whistling!

Somebody high up needs to get a grip on this before it spirals completely out of control and our police ‘service’ are prancing around the streets in tutus with fluffy dogs hanging out of their pockets. Get back to basics, that’s my theory, get back to banjoing!!!

Why do we work?

I have been sat at my desk for 3.5 hours now, doing things to do with my football team, emailing my mates, checking out my money situation and now – writing this!

I could do all this at home but roughly I have earned over £55 this morning (before tax) and I have done NOTHING for it. If I had internet access I’d have added that to the list of time wasting activities but as this company is so sodding old fashioned you cant access any decent websites here! So why do we bother? I really want to be in a job which I love, where I don’t need to worry about how to waste my day, where I can sit at my desk, not look at the clock and then all of a sudden think “My god its time to go home” Instead, I am sat here thinking “1223, is that all, its not even sodding lunchtime yet”

In fact, it has taken an hour for me to write this much because I have been talking to my colleague about how rubbish work is! I have looked at other possibilities and I still am, including some possible web design work but don’t you just wish that you could just go to some huge job centre and say “I want to be xxx and I want to earn xxx” and by the end of the day you are in the job that you want to be doing earning what you want to earn? Obviously this would be within reason coz if I turned up and said I want to be a brain surgeon and I want to earn 425k a year that’d be a bit silly but if I could just say “I want to be a football agent and I want to earn at least 30k a year plus commission” I think that’s reasonable but to become a football agent you have to go through all sorts of exams which end up costing about 20k!! How the hell can I just do that? Talk about annoying

To become a driving instructor you have to pay nearly 3 grand to start out – I cant even afford that! We really do make it hard for everyone in this country to do what they want to do. The amount of students that qualify from Uni and then go and work in Bars and restaurants for years is unreal. I know a girl who is as bright as anything, she is very clever, she worked in McDonalds part time to pay her way through uni, she qualified, went travelling for a bit and when she came back took up her old job to pay her debts, that was 8 years ago, she is now a successful manager with lots of staff under her…. In her own restaurant….. of McDonalds……… yes that is an extreme case and kind of smacks of laziness on her part but in the less extreme cases its because the jobs simply aren’t out there so we have to stick to what we know in my case IT. It is so boring but its all I know and if I want to change career I have to take a huge pay cut which I cant afford to do, it’s a vicious horrible shitty circle but how do we get out of it?

I can kind of see the sense in people who just want to earn a couple of hundred grand really quickly and then give up work completely, I’d love that! Say you went on “Who wants to be a millionaire?” You win £125,000 most people, surely would give up work? I would, I would quit that very day, yes its only £125k No it wont cover the mortgage but so what? If you use the money wisely you can pay off the biggest debts and then train to be what you want to be but you need an influx of money to be able to do it, £125k is basically five years wages for me so yes even with that small an amount I would hang up my headset and get on with life!! Would you?