Arrrgghhh so angry, for those who say just get a job stacking shelves

tiff

Its extremely hard I agree with the OP. I used to do 2 part time jobs but was made redundant from the one with more hours a year ago. I'm now about to volunteer in a charity shop as I need to get out of the house, my other part time job is once a week. Will do this until a paid job comes along, at least I'm getting off my butt and can put it on my CV.

electricmuffin

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Rather goes against the idea that there are no jobs though, doesn't it?

Presumably there are more than 275 people looking for a job.

Hammyman

Greenst wrote: »

There are no jobs out there!

The local papers, JCP website etc say otherwise. My son bleated on about there being no jobs and it being better when I was his age. I told him to get on Google and find out when the highest level of unemployment was in the UK. When he came back with the answer, I said that was the year that I left school. And I found work. Admittedly it involved traipsing up and down industrial estates knocking on doors every other week but I got a job.

Nowadays people want to sit on their backsides and search on the internet. Problem is, a large amount of jobs don't get advertised on the internet.

Gillyx

My dad is forever going on about how he still had work through all the strikes and "the Thatcher years" ( can you tell he's Scottish ) but seems to be jobs were disposable back then, both him and my grandfather were forever packing jobs in on the Friday and they always had somewhere to go come the Monday, that would not be possible today.

Never mind if you'd walked out on a few jobs, I doubt you'd manage to even get a new one now.

Mrs_Arcanum

Only 1 applicant for a job available at our place, so not necessarily too many applicants. Just not enough correctly qualified.

GothicStirling

Gillyx wrote: »

My dad is forever going on about how he still had work through all the strikes and "the Thatcher years" ( can you tell he's Scottish ) but seems to be jobs were disposable back then, both him and my grandfather were forever packing jobs in on the Friday and they always had somewhere to go come the Monday, that would not be possible today.

Never mind if you'd walked out on a few jobs, I doubt you'd manage to even get a new one now.

:rotfl:

You believe that jobs were disposable and easy to come by in the late 70's and 80's? Really, you need to brush up on your history [and jobs paid an average of £1.50 an hour.]

I remember when my Dad was made redundant, and was unemployed for 4 years . . .

JoeyG

I haven't had to look for a job for over 5 years.

But if I found myself in that position today I think I would definitely be spreading my net further a-field with a view to relocation if necessary... maybe even looking at other countries in the EU

Gillyx

GothicStirling wrote: »

:rotfl:

You believe that jobs were disposable and easy to come by in the late 70's and 80's? Really, you need to brush up on your history [and jobs paid an average of £1.50 an hour.]

I remember when my Dad was made redundant, and was unemployed for 4 years . . .

Well considering my dad has no formal qualifications or a decent standard of education, he was never out of work, but he must have had about 20 odd jobs, maybe even more. If he didn't like the conditions he left and could always find something else.

Unless of course he is lying to me, but I'm not sure what purpose that would serve.

I'm not saying it's worse today, far from it.

westv

Hammyman wrote: »

Admittedly it involved traipsing up and down industrial estates knocking on doors every other week but I got a job.

Nowadays people want to sit on their backsides and search on the internet. Problem is, a large amount of jobs don't get advertised on the internet.

Haven't the days of knocking on doors for jobs long gone for the most part?

I agree a lot of jobs aren't advertised but it seems to be a case of knowing the right people.

Tiddlywinks

Red_Shoes_No_Knickers wrote: »

Well lovey, whilst it is clearly tough out there, the fact is that there are jobs available. You just need to make yourself the best person for the job.

Do you practice hard to be so condescending or does it come naturally?

Why call someone 'lovey' when you don't even know them?

The fact is that, yes, there are jobs out there BUT there are very often more applicants than jobs. You could have 100 people equally able, qualified and possessing fabulous personalities etc and all be perfect for the job but still only one can get the post. That does not mean that the other 99 were not worthy of employment. It can come down to the luck of the draw.