Is anyone else bored with this doom and gloom?

carolt

Astonished actually, looking at local paper yesterday. !!!!!! all housing ads, and much lower prices plus a sprinkling of repos - so no surprises there.

No, what really shocked me - in a good way - were the exceptionally large numbers of easy unskilled to moderately skilled jobs advertised, at quite good rates of pay. And not just one or two - loads - eg new care home opening, taking on 15+ staff, insurance co looking for a dozen staff, universty looking for admin staff etc.

If the recession and unemployment is going on, it doesn't seem to have hit my area noticeably yet, anyway.

Best of all worlds - lower house prices + people having jobs to be able to afford to buy them = better quality of life all round.

mizzbiz

I agree in principle. It shouldn't rule your life to the point where it's all you think about and it makes you ill.

However, denial has a much worse effect and that will be the only way many people can avoid feeling the doom and gloom.

I also think that rather than doom and gloom on here, many are positively revelling in it.

Poeple may blame the media for hyping things up, on the other hand, how would you feel if job losses were suppressed? If the fact that we were in recession was not common knowledge? How would you feel if tomorrow you went out and blew all your savings on a new TV, only to find out on Monday you'd lost your job, without any preparation for the fact that this might happen whatsoever.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

mewbie_2

Is anyone else bored with this doom and gloom?

Oh yes. Unfortunately the outlook, especially for the UK, is doomy and gloomy, therefore just have to go on being bored for the foreseeable. Bored and working is not so bad though. Bored and not working must be terrible.

Entertainer

Alternatively stay in.

Make love not war.:kisses2:

mewbie_2

Entertainer wrote: »

Alternatively stay in.

Make love not war.:kisses2:

More likely the other way round in our house. Marriage eh?

Badger_Lady

Entertainer wrote: »

Alternatively stay in.

Make love not war.:kisses2:

That would surprise the lodgers :eek:

PasturesNew

carolt wrote: »

...exceptionally large numbers of easy unskilled to moderately skilled jobs advertised, at quite good rates of pay. And not just one or two - loads - eg new care home opening, taking on 15+ staff, insurance co looking for a dozen staff, universty looking for admin staff etc.

What area are you in? Define "large numbers". Define "good rates of pay".

I've been looking for work this week and on the reed website it tells you how many applicants there have been for each job. A LOT are 50-120 applicants, for jobs paying under £6/hour (South Glamorgan).

£6/hour is £11-13k/year (hours depending). Let's say £12k. £840/month takehome. Not a lot if you're in private rented and living alone. There's not much left in that budget to increase the distance you can travel to work.

For the jobs I'm actually looking at, there's nothing to even apply for. So I apply for "similar jobs" and am not really hearing much back at all. In fact, not got one interview lined up.

So I looked at the website of the office temp agency I am registered with, they have just FOUR vacancies, three of which I wouldn't be able to do anyway. Office temp work pays about £6/hour.

I get about one call a week from somebody that's seen my CV on Monster, but I've just found a "problem" I didn't know I had. I actually asked the last guy that phoned ... it appears that because I don't have a "True Brit" name, they assume I'll be an eastern european. So now I need to change my CV to not give my first name at all so I am one of the first to be called and don't end up at the end of the list just because the CVs of the Brit-sounding-named people seem easier to call (the assumption being that they haven't got an accent and there definitely won't be a problem with citizenship).

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

What area are you in? Define "large numbers". Define "good rates of pay".

I've been looking for work this week and on the reed website it tells you how many applicants there have been for each job. A LOT are 50-120 applicants, for jobs paying under £6/hour (South Glamorgan).

£6/hour is £11-13k/year (hours depending). Let's say £12k. £840/month takehome. Not a lot if you're in private rented and living alone. There's not much left in that budget to increase the distance you can travel to work.

For the jobs I'm actually looking at, there's nothing to even apply for. So I apply for "similar jobs" and am not really hearing much back at all. In fact, not got one interview lined up.

So I looked at the website of the office temp agency I am registered with, they have just FOUR vacancies, three of which I wouldn't be able to do anyway. Office temp work pays about £6/hour.

I get about one call a week from somebody that's seen my CV on Monster, but I've just found a "problem" I didn't know I had. I actually asked the last guy that phoned ... it appears that because I don't have a "True Brit" name, they assume I'll be an eastern european. So now I need to change my CV to not give my first name at all so I am one of the first to be called and don't end up at the end of the list just because the CVs of the Brit-sounding-named people seem easier to call (the assumption being that they haven't got an accent and there definitely won't be a problem with citizenship).

Can you Anglicise your name? I used to know a German bloke called Misha(sp?) who called himself Michael as a matter of course when dealing with Britons.

StevieJ

abaxas wrote: »

I love all this talk of being positive. But people forget that you cant have a positive slant on everything. Without bad there is no good as there is no comparison.

Without bad? you have obviously not turned the telly on or read a newspaper for 12 months :eek:

StevieJ

carolt wrote: »

Astonished actually, looking at local paper yesterday. !!!!!! all housing ads, and much lower prices plus a sprinkling of repos - so no surprises there.

No, what really shocked me - in a good way - were the exceptionally large numbers of easy unskilled to moderately skilled jobs advertised, at quite good rates of pay. And not just one or two - loads - eg new care home opening, taking on 15+ staff, insurance co looking for a dozen staff, universty looking for admin staff etc.

If the recession and unemployment is going on, it doesn't seem to have hit my area noticeably yet, anyway.

Best of all worlds - lower house prices + people having jobs to be able to afford to buy them = better quality of life all round.

Carol, you are a card :rotfl: