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Graduates 'Could be Jobless For Years'

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  • amcluesent
    amcluesent Posts: 9,425 Forumite
    There's no shame in 'service' as a valet or cook. Girls can go to dough-school then snaffle themselves a hubby and settle down as housewifes.
  • Fella
    Fella Posts: 7,921 Forumite
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    I never have (& never will) understood the scramble to get everyone into University & the disdain with which trades are treated.
  • treliac
    treliac Posts: 4,524 Forumite
    Pssst wrote: »
    The age of graduates somehow being entitled to a great job with great pay straight out of uni is over.

    There are not enough jobs to go round,there are too many graduates and the quality of the pool is diminished.

    The gravy train hit the buffers a few years ago. The Graduate party is over for many.

    The government is limiting new student uni admission numbers this year but is coming under pressure to increase them to prevent vast numbers of sixth form leavers languishing on the dole queue.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8133859.stm

    If there aren't enough jobs to move into on leaving university, how much point is there in postponing this reality for another few years and with £20k+ debt to boot?
  • treliac
    treliac Posts: 4,524 Forumite
    SingleSue wrote: »
    Oh and don't get me started on some of these companies only wanting GCSE's when people of my age and over didn't actually do them as they hadn't been invented when we were at school!

    There were GCEs and CSEs though. They were amalgamated into the GCSE. Any decent employer will know how to translate grades into their equivalents today and may well think the earlier qualifications were worth more than they are now too!!

    P.S. Sue - you're going for the ' if I can't beat 'em, join 'em ' approach and very well done to you. :)
  • bo_drinker
    bo_drinker Posts: 3,924 Forumite
    amcluesent wrote: »
    There's no shame in 'service' as a valet or cook. Girls can go to dough-school then snaffle themselves a hubby and settle down as housewifes.
    Back in the day maybe ? Not da yoof of today innit :confused:
    I came in to this world with nothing and I've still got most of it left. :rolleyes:
  • Pssst
    Pssst Posts: 4,803 Forumite
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    People will be jobless for years. Graduates are better placed to get a job than somebody with just one GCSE in Art.
    I dont have a degree and I'll bet a months wages (or is it salary?) that I'm more likely to get work than many of them!
  • Cleaver
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    Pssst wrote: »
    I dont have a degree and I'll bet a months wages (or is it salary?) that I'm more likely to get work than many of them!

    I think PN was talking generally and on average, rather than specific, one-off examples. I agree with her, I'd prefer to be searching for a job in a downturn with a degree and experience rather than just experience.
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
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    edited 4 July 2009 at 6:30PM
    amcluesent wrote: »
    Girls can go to dough-school then snaffle themselves a hubby and settle down as housewifes.

    Why just girls? I'd be more than happy to go to dough-school (no idea what this is, but I'm imagining making different types of bread, which sounds brilliant) then snaffle myself an executive high flying wife and settle down as a househusband.
  • Comyface
    Comyface Posts: 670 Forumite
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    Cleaver wrote: »
    Why just girls? I'd be more than happy to go to dough-school (no idea what this is, but I'm imagining making different types of bread, which sounds brilliant) then snaffle myself an executive high flying wide and settle down as a househusband.

    Good shout!:T
    Are the words 'I have a cunning plan' marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation? :cool:
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    amcluesent wrote: »
    There's no shame in 'service' as a valet or cook. Girls can go to dough-school then snaffle themselves a hubby and settle down as housewifes.

    Have you got an address for that?
    Is it too late for me do you think?
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