Never seen anything that even closely resembles a job centre in Greece Gareth and 99% of employment for foreigners is cash in hand or self-employed,i'm a misture of the 2,with investments thrown in.
As for the Jobcentre here,apparently i don'r spend enough time in the Uk to make it worth their while helping in any way as most of their schemes and so on take longer to get onto then i'm around for.
I don't actually have a UK employer as such,but to be honest i'm not actually sure what you're suggesting,all this is rather confusing and hard to think about while also worrying about the old mince pies.
Today is one of my KC bad days,woke up today with serious light sensitivity in the hydrops affected eye,with it streming down my face and allsorts,here's to monday being a lot better!
Activities following graft??
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The UK Job Centres have people who specialise in finding people work who have diabilities and also helping them overcome problems they have at work. For me they helped in that public transport costs £25 and takes three hours for me to get to work. If I drive it is 4 minutes and costs £5! These people at the job centre can be a wealth of information for us that are in employment as well as finding work. So can Action for the blind and the RNIB.
If you are self employed the job centre should also be able to help regarding Access to Work and so should action for the blind. Contact both organisations and explain the situation you are in and thye may well be able to provide some useful suggestions.
The flipside is that you get a graft early on in your stay in the UK and all goes fine with no problesm which is more often the case. Then six months later you only need six month check ups. Anything that happens inbetween you have your nice Greep opthalmologist for emergencies.
If you are self employed the job centre should also be able to help regarding Access to Work and so should action for the blind. Contact both organisations and explain the situation you are in and thye may well be able to provide some useful suggestions.
The flipside is that you get a graft early on in your stay in the UK and all goes fine with no problesm which is more often the case. Then six months later you only need six month check ups. Anything that happens inbetween you have your nice Greep opthalmologist for emergencies.
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Ah i get ya now!
I'm not self-employed here,currently im on incapacity benefit as i've not that long ago developed hydrops for the first time,i'm off back to Greece in about 10 weeks,for 8 months or so.
Just out of interest is there an average waiting time for a graft,my surgeon seems to think it's very short and a donor is easy to find,whereas my opt seems to think that because i have rather large eyes,therefore a large cornea,a donor will be very difficult to ever come accross.
this is what i mean about conflicitn advice from professionals,i'll post a new thread actually,as its a new topic.
I'm not self-employed here,currently im on incapacity benefit as i've not that long ago developed hydrops for the first time,i'm off back to Greece in about 10 weeks,for 8 months or so.
Just out of interest is there an average waiting time for a graft,my surgeon seems to think it's very short and a donor is easy to find,whereas my opt seems to think that because i have rather large eyes,therefore a large cornea,a donor will be very difficult to ever come accross.
this is what i mean about conflicitn advice from professionals,i'll post a new thread actually,as its a new topic.
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