• The Careers Advice Service at East London's Globe Centre will help you with career guidance, how you identify jobs you could actually go for, CV writing and interview skills, and so on.
• The Job Club (previously the Placement Service) at the UKC places people with sympathetic employers for voluntary placements for 3-6 months.
• If you are a woman, you can also join the very popular Positively Women Volunteer Programme, which has been responsible for getting women a new or, in some cases, their first-ever job.

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THE RATTLE OF LIFE
BBC presenter Nigel Wrench carried on, not quite regardless, after his diagnosis…
"What's that rattle?" one of the producers at PM asked as I picked up my backpack. It was not the greatest news. The rattle was from my medication box: silver, if you must know, from Morocco. I still hadn't had my morning drugs and it was 3pm.

I'd left home without breakfast for a sausage sandwich in the BBC canteen. I'd eaten the sandwich and forgotten the pills.
So I answered, "Drugs," elicited a satisfactorily startled stare from the producer, and added, "No, no, no, just my medication. You know."
I hauled the box out, knocked them back with a glass of water. No real crisis, just a few hours missed, virus (probably) back in check. Another bit of the daily routine belatedly in place.