19SazzaLou91 Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 I would absolutely LOVE a job, but there are no companies at the moment willing to hire me, as I require specific hours (I am a single mother). But before you ask, I didn't get pregnant "for the benefits". I'm not happy living at home with my mum and dad, but until I can manage to get a job, it's all I have. I am 20 years old, and until I went on maternity leave, I was hardly on benefits. I think since I left school at 16, I've been on benefits for 5 months. And then obviously, the past 8 months since having my daughter. I don't like being on benefits. I don't think it was particularly easier for the previous generation, however, employer's weren't as tight with hiring, as money was not as much an issue as it is today's climate. The reason there are jobs going but no jobs for the young, I think, is because employers don't want to waste the money training up a younger person, when there are older, more experienced people to be hired. And there isn't a hope in Hell now that anyone in this generation can get a home and mortgage. Prices are simply too high, and unless they are from a rich family, or have a VERY VERY high paying job, it is too much for people. So... Yeah. That's my two-pence-worth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muldoon Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 I would absolutely LOVE a job, but there are no companies at the moment willing to hire me, as I require specific hours (I am a single mother). But before you ask, I didn't get pregnant "for the benefits". I'm not happy living at home with my mum and dad, but until I can manage to get a job, it's all I have. I am 20 years old, and until I went on maternity leave, I was hardly on benefits. I think since I left school at 16, I've been on benefits for 5 months. And then obviously, the past 8 months since having my daughter. I don't like being on benefits. I don't think it was particularly easier for the previous generation, however, employer's weren't as tight with hiring, as money was not as much an issue as it is today's climate. The reason there are jobs going but no jobs for the young, I think, is because employers don't want to waste the money training up a younger person, when there are older, more experienced people to be hired. And there isn't a hope in Hell now that anyone in this generation can get a home and mortgage. Prices are simply too high, and unless they are from a rich family, or have a VERY VERY high paying job, it is too much for people. So... Yeah. That's my two-pence-worth. obvious FAIL, thart not even fromt'Yorkshire. Its Tuppen-uth sithee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19SazzaLou91 Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 obvious FAIL, thart not even fromt'Yorkshire. Its Tuppen-uth sithee. Do you actually have anything constructive to say, or does your response only equal to a troll? I do apologise that I do not type as I speak, so as to help people understand me properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurian Posted February 3, 2012 Author Share Posted February 3, 2012 Do you actually have anything constructive to say, or does your response only equal to a troll? I do apologise that I do not type as I speak, so as to help people understand me properly. Thank you for your valued contribution. Some people simply do not want to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19SazzaLou91 Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Thank you for your valued contribution. Some people simply do not want to know. To which bit are you regarding? The my original post detailing my answers to the questions asked of people in my age group, or my response to the poster who claimed my language "was not Yorkshire"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOHN HABS Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 ' What do 1 million unemployed 18/24 year olds think ' The majority would think : a) I'll stay in bed until dinner time. b) I'll play with my X Box. c) I'll go for a run around in the car and annoy people with the stereo on loud. d) I'll meet up with the mates and go to the pub or betting shop. e) I'll go out with the spray cans and deface someone's property. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chem1st Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 ' What do 1 million unemployed 18/24 year olds think ' The majority would think : a) I'll stay in bed until dinner time. Unless you have to sign on or work at poundland for your dole b) I'll play with my X Box. If the £53.45/week streches far enough to purchase a console that costs in excess of £100. c) I'll go for a run around in the car and annoy people with the stereo on loud. If they can somehow pay the £120/week in insurance required to sit behind the wheel out of their £53.45/week dole d) I'll meet up with the mates and go to the pub or betting shop. Because they are so damn depressed they might aswell have one night out socialising with fellow human beings drinking a liquid that resembles tax and slavery more than it does the alcohol that can be produced for pennies per litre that it is supposed to. Or maybe because they think they might win enough money to buy an xbox (poor people gamble more than the rich - it is often there only chance at bettering themselves in a country such as the UK which has next to 0 social mobility) e) I'll go out with the spray cans and deface someone's property. Somebody else's property? Did they create the Earth over millions of years and build said property by hand? Do they occupy it? Surely the graffiti artist has more of a claim to said property as he has actually put his labour into improving it! Then perhaps. Just don't expect them to pay your pension and wipe your arse when you retire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chem1st Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Are they are simply idle? Their unemployment is forced upon them by the state Do they see foreigners who are already qualified taking their jobs? Just more slaves to compete with for the scraps. Do they like living with mum and dad? I suppose it is better then living in an HMO that they would still require benefits to help pay the rent, even if working. Are jobs available for them? If only the Landlords of the world would spare a few pence for them so that they might lick his boots clean. How soon could they get their own place if they worked hard? They shall never be able to compete with the land monopolists unless we have a very violent revolution/civil war and they seize the land from their masters. Have they given up? Perhaps they are working in the black economy and eschew the grotesque practices of the so called legitimate economy If they worked really hard would they make it? If they could break free off benefits, but to do so they would have to force others into poverty. Do they like the prospect of having to work well into their seventies? The pension system is going to collapse well before then. Is life easier or harder for them than it was for their parents? Suppose it would depend on each individual, considering many of their parents need only wait a few weeks to get a council house, and could buy houses quite easily at age 23, considering the increased amounts of rules and regulation and the £10000 of pre-tax income they would need to insure a car, most likely life is harder for them. Consecutive governments have destroyed job security. Could they take on 25 years mortgage on that basis? TPTB want to stop them squatting! They shall be forced to claim HB and live in tiny bedsits paying rent unto their B2L masters till they are 35 and become eligible for 1 bed flats. My guess is that they think that the last generation or two "sold them down the river" I could not disagree with that. I wouldn't necessarily say it was them, but they have been sold down the river by TPTB. Only last year there were packs of them roaming the streets, baying for blood, taking what they pleased, a law unto their selves, in control of the streets, firebombing petrol stations and the temples of conspicuous consumption that litter our town centres. They nearly had hold of some of the royals, and untied together they chanted in unison, "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS". In 6 months time, the weather shall be warm again, bread and circuses may not be enough to placate the masses, Rome (sic) shall burn again and this time it may fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikarak Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 Why are you blaming previous generations for selling them/you down the river? Probably because the vast majority of people are always looking to the past for answers. It's the way we are raised to find the cause of our situation as being in the past. Little effort is given to training the masses on how to look forward and navigate around their situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shef_Fitness Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 Bit of a problem for the young of today - the cost of going to work. When I was in my 20s, a part time job would allow you to purchase somthing such as a flat, or a cheap house (for example terrace in lower walkley), if you worked full time you then could save and afford a home in a decent area. Even on a part time wage, car insurance wasn't a problem, I could afford a holiday, I almost wiped out my mortgage by saving over 50% of the deposit (the value of my home was only £26,500 in 1999) and have nights out to my hearts content and take part in any sport I wished. Council Tax was pretty cheap in those days and there was no doubt, being in work was better than being out of work (finacially). Any jobs that are out there in 2012 are minimum wage, are few and far between, house prices are coming in at over £100,000 (provided you are happy to live a drug den area of Sheffield), so your young person needs to save around £60,000 for a 50%+ deposit, which is quite hard when insurance is coming in at £3000, petrol costs are through the roof etc.... People say "they shouldn't have a car", but is that not the whole point of going to work? to give yourself a comfy lifestyle????? if we carry on like this, in a few years workers will eating dung for dinner and any earnings they have will be hived off in taxes (direct and indirect) meaning the workforce of the future will not have the things my generation (the 30somthings) took for granted. Working hard = more comfy life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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