Current mood:	cynical
Current music:	Pink Panther theme

In search
..of a job.
Really want to work with horses but there's always a slight problem:
I need a riding level, a sort of sport diploma to show you get enough skills...
Each riding level is roughly a year of riding for a normal rider. And I'm required level 7. In other words it's the level that allows you to train for being a riding teacher. Until then no problem.
Two facts:
1: I've seen level 7 riders falling from a horse who avoided a jump, while I, with my pity level 2 at the time, I could stand still on said horse. I was even given level 5 horses at the time when their dedicaded riders didnt come. I even rode stallions in shows for years and international-class dressage horses. (a tiny lil 10 years in all). And yet I can't get a job because I don't have the official level. Which leads to our...
2nd fact: Horse riding is like any sports considered as a hobby for employment company, so I need to pay from my pocket to get official riding levels, that is a minimum of a day riding every week for 4 years since I have level 3 and I need level 7, although I might be able to get them a bit faster, I can't afford it right now and despite a new stuff now in place called "valorisation of experiences" which transforms your experience into a paper (duh!), there's nothing about 1: horses, 2: sports levels.

I visited someone lately who would have been more than happy to hire me, BUT:
1: For hiring me, he needs to get his whole farm "upgraded" to reflect the new laws about security and work-comfort (my ass! I've worked 10 years with horses and I never cared that a tractor had to have power steering). Which means hundreds of thousands of euro to get someone working with him.
2: the Veterinary State Services are on his back waiting for anything, they visited him lately, his horses are the most gentle I ever saw but this asshole from the services just was too afraid to go close to the horses alone to "chip" them so she wrote in her papers that she wasnt allowed to check the horses... So they are a bit pissed off, and hoping for him to make a mistake. If he ever hires illegally, which personally I don't care, the country isn't making things worth being hired*, and I ever have an accident they'll make him close his farm. And he doesn't need that.

*If I don't work I get money from the unemployement (right now a whooping great 1200€/month because I worked at 2500 for a long period); If I go to school, I don't get money anymore because "I'm not looking for a job anymore" (so I claim I'm doing evening classes, which is not a lie); If I work 1 day a month, as I had to do for my mutual insurance in November, I get 200€ less on my unemployment pay, unfortunately, I'm not paid 200€ a day at work, which means : unemployment + work = less than not working...
In 12 years, the unemployment called me twice for a job... while I was working... for apples...