A FORMER maths teacher has come up with a novel approach to finding a new job.

Anthony Mckay, 28, of Clifton Avenue, Walthamstow, has set up a website offering a £500 reward to the first person to help him find six months of full-time paid work.

He said: "I'd been a teacher for about seven years - I'd fallen into that from the degree I did but I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do. I didn't know what I did want to do and I just got more and more sick of it."

Mr Mckay quit his job at a special school in Hackney earlier this year without knowing what he wanted to do and came up with the idea after a night out with friends.

"We were out for a friend's birthday and we were talking about what on earth I was going to do," he said.

"I came up with it as a bit of a joke but I didn't have anything else to do, so I thought I might as well go for it."

Beginning with a page on social networking website Facebook, he set up his own site to generate more interest in his cause, including a video outlining his "mission".

"It's been going about two months now," Mr Mckay said.

"I've worked at 20:20 at Lords Cricket Ground and I've had work experience at GLE which is an investment company."

Mr Mckay has a degree from Canterbury University in maths and sports science, as well as a PGCE in secondary education, but will not accept offers of teaching jobs.

Currently helping a 32-year-old pass a maths GCSE, he has worked as a passenger validator for Eurostar, a shopkeeper and a brick cleaner and has also been offered work as a zombie at the London Bridge Experience.

If you think you can help Mr Mckay find a job, visit his website at findantajob.com