Pharmacy Technician from EEA (Poland)

[DavidS]

3) Cambridge, Ely and Bury are tourist towns with many jobs for staff in restaurants, pubs etc. The locals are not interested in casual work or waiting, much easier to stroll around with your mates on benefits.
johnep

Is this what you're up to nowadays?

[johnep]

Actually never had a state benefit in my life in terms of cash.
johnep

[DavidS]

never had a state benefit in my life in terms of cash.
johnep

Me neither, although at one point in my life it was more ignorance of the possibility than a lack of qualifying.

And I suppose I'm choosing to ignore student grants and, indeed, the whole university education I received free - not the case nowadays.