Heard of it? If you haven't then you need to and you need to understand it. If your life ever takes a turn for the worse - the really bad and you have to depend on our famous welfare system then this is how it is now run: welfare conditionality. Now I'm not actually saying it is wrong OR right but just saying...
Conditions? Whose conditions? For what reason? And can a one size fit all approach work even if you have the right conditions for the right reasons?
This really interests me at the start of my Public Health Masters, to me, this is what its all about - how we make people live. MAKE because it is only those in need that cease to have control, those that need help, the vulnerable, the disenfranchised, the lonely, those who are already hurting, they have to obey the rules that are set...
OK, but who makes the rules? Are they the right rules? Does it matter? How can we make them the 'right' rules? Do we have a right to set such rules? When life is all hunky-dory, then we are in control. When life is shit then societal structures end up in control because they hold the purse strings and make the rules. And can those of us who don't need help ever understand without 'walking a mile in someone elses shoes'.
I don't think I'll ever know the answers but I hope to be part of a way forward, possibly a solution, but at the minimum to help...
Watch this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03xlch7/panorama-hungry-britain
(Edit: that maybe sounded a bit bossy, but actually you really do HAVE to watch; it yes YOU, it is essential to your humanity.)
If you want to know more about Welfare Conditionality you could start reading here:
http://www.welfareconditionality.ac.uk/about-our-research/what-is-welfare-conditionality/
I'll write more, no promises when though as I'm crap at this blogging regularly business!
Tuesday 9 September 2014
Monday 8 September 2014
Blogging...
So it seems I just get worse at this blogging business. In some ways this is just a mirror of life atm - oh yeah that sounds all 'poor me' and bloody pathetic (or maybe not but the thought behind it was!) but things are a little bit wrong, well, stalled I suppose and have been for too long. I'd like to move on now please...
And as I'm no good at airing my downs in public I'm actually only managing to say "life is a bit shit" just before the up begins... It's an up that I know is coming, as I start my Masters in two weeks, that will be a focus, a feeling of doing something that has meaning. So I'm really looking forward to that but am really pissed off with not finding a job that feels right (also rather a 'poor me' statement - who has the job they actually want?) I know I am highly employable, I am a jack-of-all trades that tends to become the master of things pretty fast (apart from the master of finding a job.)
I have been surprised by how much when some bits of life become stalled it actually seems to grind you to a total halt, I though it was just me being an utter slob but having chatted a bit to people (in a very non-emotional, I'm not letting you know life is feeling really shit sort of way) that it does seem to be 'a thing'. I could have achieved so much over the last two years, round the house, round my brain (reading, writing all that self-enhancement stuff) but what do I have to show for it? ...chaos, boxes still unpacked, a lack of any direction, tiredness, lots of weeds in the garden and my pet fibroid.
(But at least I'm a level 8 in Ingress (don't ask!))
Hmm, that's it for now, please do return, as normal service (whatever that is) may be resumed at some point...
(oh and P.S. for those who haven't noticed I have a little addiction to ellipses. This, I feel, is better than my previous addiction to exclamation marks which I mostly recovered from not that long ago. Does this change in itself say something about my life right now...)
And as I'm no good at airing my downs in public I'm actually only managing to say "life is a bit shit" just before the up begins... It's an up that I know is coming, as I start my Masters in two weeks, that will be a focus, a feeling of doing something that has meaning. So I'm really looking forward to that but am really pissed off with not finding a job that feels right (also rather a 'poor me' statement - who has the job they actually want?) I know I am highly employable, I am a jack-of-all trades that tends to become the master of things pretty fast (apart from the master of finding a job.)
I have been surprised by how much when some bits of life become stalled it actually seems to grind you to a total halt, I though it was just me being an utter slob but having chatted a bit to people (in a very non-emotional, I'm not letting you know life is feeling really shit sort of way) that it does seem to be 'a thing'. I could have achieved so much over the last two years, round the house, round my brain (reading, writing all that self-enhancement stuff) but what do I have to show for it? ...chaos, boxes still unpacked, a lack of any direction, tiredness, lots of weeds in the garden and my pet fibroid.
(But at least I'm a level 8 in Ingress (don't ask!))
Hmm, that's it for now, please do return, as normal service (whatever that is) may be resumed at some point...
(oh and P.S. for those who haven't noticed I have a little addiction to ellipses. This, I feel, is better than my previous addiction to exclamation marks which I mostly recovered from not that long ago. Does this change in itself say something about my life right now...)
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