4. November 2005, 18:37

Last week I received a letter from the local job-center. I got offered a so-called 1-Euro-Job. I should meet for an interview and today that meeting took part.

In Germany when you are longer unemployed than one year, you get some kind of social welfare, which is 345 Euro per month, added by the costs for your appartement and heating costs. For those people, there were created these so-called 1-Euro-Jobs, which means, you have to work mainly in social facilities for between 1 and 2 Euros per hour. You get this money extra plus your social welfare. These 1-Euro-Jobs are usually limited to six months. And you cannot reject to do them, normally.

Well, I am not very pleased to do such work. In my opinion, it is just wasted time. But many others here are glad, when they get at least such work in our time of economical crisis and over five million unemployed people in Germany. Well, but not me. I don't need to be cared that I don't sit bored at home. And for me, my freedom and spare time is more worth than 1 Euro per hour, in my eyes. I don't care about 120 Euro more each month.

So, in that interview again first the same question about my working past and what I wanna to become, where and what I wanna work, which I even don't know for myself. The friendly woman tried to find some appropriate workplace for me, but she couldn't really. Well, I wasn't so enthusiastic to work on a graveyard or to go walking with old people or to care about homeless people.

So, I told her, that I would prefer not to do these jobs at all, if I don't have to. Better someone get this job, who really wants it, than to force me to do work, I don't wanna do. She might have understood me, she hadn't to organize some workplace for me anymore. I just hope, I don't get trouble now with the job-center, because they could cut my welfare or I could get other problems with it.