pressure today.

dandelionclock30

starrystarry wrote: »

7 years! No wonder the job centre are on OP's back. I can't see how it's possible to be unemployed for 7 years if you actually want a job. I know it's hard nowadays, but 7 years? Come on.

A lot of employers dont want people who are unemployed or over 40. So I can definatley believe it. The longer a person is unemployed the harder it becomes to get another job.
How easy do you think it would be to get a job with a 7 year gap in employment? Unless a family member or friend employs you or you go self employed I would say a persons chances would be very slim.

notanewuser

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

A lot of employers dont want people who are unemployed or over 40. So I can definatley believe it. The longer a person is unemployed the harder it becomes to get another job.
How easy do you think it would be to get a job with a 7 year gap in employment? Unless a family member or friend employs you or you go self employed I would say a persons chances would be very slim.

I'd suggest a correlation between effort and success too. The OP expends a lot of energy on avoiding work of any sort. That's fine and dandy.......... except when she's claiming JSA!

tea-tart-and-rice_3

its interesting reading all the replies. With hindsight I am probably looking back at my carefree days with rose tinted spectacles. I hadnt "grown up" at all - I was either still a child or the responsibility of a much older first husband. That said, these days I see that the pressures I feel now are largely from poor choices I have made in the past and am now bearing the consequences. If only you could rewrite your past.

My parents struggled, I now realise, to buy their own home, and living on a council estate was almost feared. Blimey, what I wouldnt give now to be offered a sense of security from social housing and I wouldnt care where if it was on the once must despised "council" estate in my town.

Forum responses can be helpful in opening your own eyes. Thats a few lightbulb moments Ive had this week alone, Id better go and lie down in a darkened room, lol!

TopQuark

lostinrates wrote: »

Why stop at considering immigration ( also why not consider emigration to offset that problem)

I emigrated and am in Switzerland currently, with my fianc! who is also an immigrant (him French, me British). Switzerland has a massive amount of immigrants and in some places you'll be hard pushed to find may Swiss at all. As you may know, the Swiss have just voted in favour of implementing strict quotas for EU immigrants (they already have them for everyone else). I'm hoping the fact that we are already here (and I work for an international organisation) means we won't be kicked out!

But to go back to the original question. Pressures are different these days I think (I was born in the 80s so can't speak from direct experience). According to my parents and older family and friends, it is certainly more difficult for average people to purchase an affordable house, get (and keep) a stable job, go to university with getting into debt etc. However, as others have pointed out, women have far greater rights these days, we can travel all over the world, have modern medicine to cure our ills and allow us to live longer, etc....

ska_lover

thorsoak wrote: »

In the UK, the only time that house building has matched demand, and kept housing affordable, was when councils built in huge volumes from the 1950s to 1970s. During this time it was possible for tenants to buy their houses at a discount, but the funds from these sales allowed the councils to replace/rebuild more homes. But when the conservatives expanded that right to buy council houses in the 1980s, they took away the ability of the council to replace the housing stock that was sold. This - not immigration - has caused the shortage of local authority housing.

I think you are correct, but I do not think it is one thing or another, I think it is a contribution of both - lack of social housing - and a large influx of people moving here

jaylee3

barbiedoll wrote: »

There may well have been plentiful social housing in Bedfordshire in the 60's and 70's but in London, it has always been in short supply. My parents were renting a one-bedroomed flat privately in the 60's and when I was born, they applied to the council for a flat/house.

The housing officer came round and said that there were no places available and that they would have to "put up a partition wall in the bedroom". My dad said that they wouldn't be allowed to do that as it was not their property. The housing guy then told them to look for somewhere bigger to rent. As far as my mum knows, she is still on the waiting list.....48 years later! :eek:

I think this is not only extremely unlikely, but more than likely impossible. There's no way that she would still be on the housing list after 48 years.

red_devil

notanewuser wrote: »

I'd suggest a correlation between effort and success too. The OP expends a lot of energy on avoiding work of any sort. That's fine and dandy.......... except when she's claiming JSA!

Do you have to keep spoiling the thread by dragging stuff up thats nothing to do with it. Why have you got the tome and inclination to start digging.

Its a good discussion please but out if all you want to do is run me down. I dont see anywhere where i have done this to you.

back to discussion. Alot of people havent got much chance of getting on the housing ladder today unless your are really good.

Air_Cooled_75

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

A lot of employers dont want people who are unemployed or over 40. So I can definatley believe it. The longer a person is unemployed the harder it becomes to get another job.
How easy do you think it would be to get a job with a 7 year gap in employment? Unless a family member or friend employs you or you go self employed I would say a persons chances would be very slim.

I don't believe the over 40 thing as both my parents got jobs (not long ago) at nearly 60! Being unemployed long term is more of an issue I think, unless you have a valid reason.

snackajacks

The UK wasn't fit to burst years ago