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  We are all the cannon fodder for HR depts!!! It was really the benefits system that was so soul-destroying, though. we were confident enough that we would get work - we are both very employable and assertive! - but it was that interim period that was a bit of a challenge and we could have used a tiny proportion of the hard-earned taxes we had donated being offered back to us for a leg-up. Didn't happen. We have paid so much over the years it seemed a bit of a joke that we couldn't get any back even for a short period despite our employability and active and strenuous job-hunting. It felt at the time (and I know it was an exageration!!) as if we woud have been better off refusing to find work, sitting on our jacksies and shouting loudly about what we were "entitled" to!!!!!!!! And perhaps podding out a few babies while we were at it! But no, we did it all wrong: we got married, had babies, worked hard, supported ourselves and our family wihout any help or handouts, paid a fortune in taxes and contributions, and when we were in need, for such a short period, got jacks**t in return.

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