So, I wake up on a Monday morning, throw away my duvet and stand, sleepy-eyed and in need of coffee.

Downstairs, I fill up on my favourite beverage before checking my change, grabbing The Booklet and heading out into the day, hiding beneath my hood to keep away the rain.

Gingerly, I pay the bus-driver the 70p it takes to get me to the top of Colne, and I pick my way sure-footedly through the denizens of the mid-morning.

I head for the cold, sterile building at the top of market street, across from The Cornerhouse. Stepping through the double-doors, a glass prison awaits me. People walking past, staring at me, trapped.

I hand my details into the security guard, who looks at me over his spectacles, and mumbles something before shuffling away with The Booklet to one of the many desks walling in the prisoners.

I stand for the next twenty minutes, staring at supposedly local jobs stretching from Burnley to Stoke-on-Trent, next to various other unfortunate souls, tapping at the barely-working, and finger-smeared touch-screen, before long a cold, harsh voice calls my name and I'm drawn towards a desk where I am offered a still-warm seat.

I settle down and try not to look guilty as the other occupant of the desk leans across and patronisingly asks me, as though its a cardinal sin;

"So. Signing on again?"

Yes. I'm one of them lazy jobless people, who spends his life being rejected from everything he applies for, trotting up to the Job Centre to be patronised, and un-helped and claiming an amount of money, that whilst being adequate for doing what I want to do, probably wouldn't feed a single parent family of four very easily.

Yep, you guessed it. I'm on Job Seekers. I'm not happy about it, who would be? But a lot more could be done to get people who are on Job Seekers into work, or at least make it easier.

At the moment, the problem with the Job Centre and employment as a whole are a lot. Some of them are real problems, and some of them I've probably imagined.

The first problem with it, is that there is no provision for people who need work, but who don't need, or want, 30-40 hours worth of work. I need Job Seekers to pay my board. Which includes my bills and my food.

If I can't pay that, I'm on the streets. I need the bit that's left over to do stuff I want to do - this is my gap year, the whole point of it was to spend a chilled year after my 15 years of School, School and College, scraping my way into uni. I think I earned the break.

What the advisors at the job centre don't seem to get is that a 20 hour job is fine. It pays my board, gives me money to play with and leaves me time to play. Instead, they ignore me and its straight to the first 40 hours job with you young man!

There's no flexibility in the type of job, either. I told them 'something office-related, I'm too weedy to labouring' so now, the only things they'll help me look for IS office work.

They won't consider helping me find till-work, because on that piece of paper they have it says 'office work' and its such a shame if they have to deviate from that paper. It took a dead tree to print it and everything.

Which brings me onto my other point about job seekers. When your on job seekers your supposed to keep a record of everything you do to look for a job - which I do, the booklet your supposed to fill in is sat right next to my PC all the time - but I've noticed that the people at the centre hardly check what I've written.

Its occurred to me that I could probably get away with just filling in nonsense the day before I'm supposed to go in for my interview, and therefore get my money for very little work. I do, however wish to have a job.

But there are probably people out there who don't and I'm not the most devious person ever, so I'm sure that I'm not the only one to have noticed this.

Lastly, I have a problem with Equal Opportunities. Not with the idea itself, everyone with an equal chance to be hired, what's wrong with that? Meritocracy is always good.

My problem is that the current way of employers doing it is to make you fill in a little secondary form telling them about your ethnicity, so they can make sure they have a balanced workforce. This isn't equal opportunity. Its collect-a-race.

It IS positive racism, and positive racism is just as bad as negative racism, except that it doesn't create direct problems. It creates tensions, and it divides people.

What we need, what we really need is colour blind employment. (That's not an actual term. I just stole the term from 'Colourblind Casting' which IS an actual term, apparently.) Oh, and for the Record, Job Centre Plus site, Bournemouth, I can assure you, is NOT within 5 miles of Colne. It really isn't.