I expect you did work hard, like many others do, but I don't think that sort of opportunity comes around now. The job market in my opinion at the moment is absolutely dire, if you want to earn a wage to sensibly save up and buy a house.
WTF do you think I did as an apprentice.
A vampire.
Great stuff.
What do you do out of interest?
Oh they are out there and in abundance. There may well be many people on long term sick who are genuinely struggling and genuinely cannot work. That much I accept.
I just feel so deeply sad seeing all the smart and sparky kids around my town. Loving life, not a care in the world. As it should be. Except they don't know it yet, but they are doomed to zero chance of buying - or probably even renting - a place in this here Brighton or even anywhere nearby. It's a shit state of affairs Tommy
Do they have a flat screen tv though?
Like I said, people who haven't been on social welfare normally share your view. Same in the US, same in Sweden.
I agree with this. I'd be interested to know how the average wage vs average cost-of-living has changed over the decades.
For example my job, we had 2500 applicants on the last round, entry level job as well, but you have to cut people down, AI is making it very murky, IMO. Recruitment seems to be absolutely broken at the moment, we are struggling to get people once you get to the interview stage, and the ones that do start are not of good quality. I wish it was as simple as when @PILTDOWN MAN applied, but its very difficult for people to navigate the recruitment process and it means that the best candidates get ignored.I feel so sad seeing all the smart and sparky kids around my town. They don't know it yet, but they are doomed to zero chance of buying - or probably even renting - a place in this here Brighton or even anywhere nearby. It's a shit state of affairs Tommy
Surely median wage is more interesting? Average wages are almost always inflated by the top 1% to the point that they don't really represent the economy of the average person.
Considering labour have slapped an extra tax of £2500 per employee for the employer no one will get a pay rise for years.
And this goes back to what I was saying earlier about people not being told the right things at school / Uni / wherever about how to actually get on in life. I've been employing people in Brighton for almost 8 years. In the time ONE person has taken the time to contact me directly and ask for an interview to work for my company. We employed her, she was great. And she has since buggered off to set up her own company, the bitch
. But it's no surprise that somebody who bothered to use her initiative like that has gone on to do really well for herself. Unlike the countless others I've hired who didn't work out for us and have since drifted, failing from job to job.I mean, you could have just said "Yeah OK, fair enough" or something like I did to @PILTDOWN MAN when he completely schooled me earlier in the thread. But I know that's not your style.
So in essence people are work shy today because you and the others from your generation failed to raise and inspire the next generation to be as good as you?
Don't forget the school class sizes of 50!
I'm a bit like Yosser, I can do that!
