Caprica6, tbh I think beggers cannot be choosers.
If you need a job and you want to work to earn money rather than live off the state, you will do anything to earn money. That doesn't mean that you have to spend the rest of your life chained to that one job, but it is far easier to get a job when you already have a job, and whether it is politically correct or not, an intervieweder interviewing two candidates, one who has spent the past x years on benefits doing nothing, and the other who has been doing any work that's around to earn his living, the one working is far more likely to get the job.
And I have been there.
When I came home from South Africa I had never had a job. Plus the laws on discriminating against the disabled weren't exactly in my favour back then, so employers could legitimately say "oh no sorry, we can't give you this job because your blindness will prevent you from doing x/y/z.". I did not want to live on benefits. Imo there is no self respect in sitting on one's backside collecting from the government. So I managed to get a job doing telesales, selling double glazing. I absolutely detested every minute of it, but it was a job. Then a couple of months later I had an interview with a large insurance company, and I got that job. And some months later my boss, who interviewed me said, "you know one of the reasons why we employed you was because of your determination. It is much, much harder for someone with a disability to get a job, because they have to prove that A, they are capableof doing the job, and B, they are capable of doing the job despite their disability. But you were prepared to do anything to show that you were prepared, to work, even though it was a menial job at the time, you still were prepared to do it.".
If I had to start earning money tomorrow I would do whatever it took before signing on the dole. Apart from prostitute myself obviously, but I really think there is no self respect in claiming benefits purely because you can. Because you have to is another matter of course, but if you are capable of work then you should be working imo.
Tinkerbelle'smum by "physically incapable" I was not referring to people with physical disabilities alone, I meant that people who are incapable of working for any reason, the term "physically" was just a term.