Crunch Time: A crisis that is dividing young and old

before_hollywood

Old_Slaphead wrote: »

1)In the 'old days' hardly anyone went to university. We had to get jobs and didn't get 'gap years' with cheapo flights and 3 years boozing at unis for (in many cases) worthless degrees.
not being able to do a degree without student debt prevented me from completing a business studies degree, with a predicted first class honours

2) Nobody except featherbedded public 'servants' get FS pensions anymore. good, and it should be scrapped for them too

3) Work longer?? Many of us started at 15 or 16.....that's 6 years before today's lot. Many of us work for a full 50 years!!! i got my first full time job aged 18
4) If you paid ridiculous home prices then blame the builders for supplying such crap. Anyone who brought overpriced appartments and tiny houses for a kings ransome should be venting their spleens on this 'socialist' government and their lax planning rules for allowing it to happen. Nowt to do with us owd codgers ! my town is full of new build apartments and i wont touch them with a barge pole, the house i am trying to buy at the moment was built in the late 50's

Younger generation want it all and want it all now. Well try working for 15 years and saving a bit before you buy your 1st house and a car.

well i'm going to defend those that are my generation and have my screwed on my comments are in the funky blue lettering

and by the way i worked for 5 years before i owned my first car and have been working 10 years and have scraped together a 15% deposit to try and by an ex council house.

do the words you are now eating taste nice? not all young people are the same

ukcarper

before_hollywood wrote: »

well i'm going to defend those that are my generation and have my screwed on my comments are in the funky blue lettering

and by the way i worked for 5 years before i owned my first car and have been working 10 years and have scraped together a 15% deposit to try and by an ex council house.

do the words you are now eating taste nice? not all young people are the same

I agree not all young people are the same someone I know someone who rented a cheap room in a house drove an old car and didn’t buy luxuries so that he could save for a deposit and although he was earning just over average wages manage to buy a house in the south east. But a lot seem to want their cake and eat it.

vivatifosi

Hi before hollywood,

I can't get the quote box that you've put your comments in blue into, however I would say don't give up on the Uni degree. I was in the same situation as you and got my degree by studying part time. I still got a first, and although it wasn't as much fun as going to uni, it also got me a really good place at a Russell Group Uni to do my masters. Never think its too late to study.

SingleSue

Lol, I am testimony to that Viva!

Didn't take the chance to go to Uni when I was younger, went straight into work then kids, then work again and single parenthood.

Finally getting to do my degree now but missing out on the uni experience by studying via OU.

treliac

vivatifosi wrote: »

I was in the same situation as you and got my degree by studying part time. I still got a first, and although it wasn't as much fun as going to uni, it also got me a really good place at a Russell Group Uni to do my masters. Never think its too late to study.

Did all your studies lead you into your current career, viva, assuming that you're working of course. Or was it primarily for personal fulfilment?

Dithering_Dad

olly300 wrote: »

Also some degrees i.e. History, foreign languages, Sociology, Politics are useless on their own however people can end up doing useful things after those degrees i.e become a teacher, social worker, prison officer

I wouldn't class any of those degree's as useless.

How about Juggling, Fire Eating and Funeral Directing? Admittedly the funeral directing one may result in a service benefiting society, but surely one doesn't need to study at degree level for three years in order to learn how to transport a body or perform a burial at sea? If one is attracted to that sort fo a career, then I'd have thought a bit of volunteer work at a funeral parlour would be cheaper and more instructive. As far as juggling....

ninky_2

from a purely biological point of view and leaving morality out of it, in a society where resources are limited where should the priority be put? the young breeders and workers or the old and no longer employed / employable?

if we are looking at it from the point of continuance of the species it is clearly the younger generation who should get priority.

successful species always give priority for to the young.

Dithering_Dad

We should implement Carousel from Logan's run, where everyone over 30 is 'given the chance to regenerate'. Anyone under 30 in here?