Renting in your 40's and staring into the abyss

ukcarper

missyrichards wrote: »

I think that is what it boils down to, having a constant debate over what generation had it harder.

I can be honest and say I didn't have it hard when buying a first place and I would think most people of my age group (Gen X) had more advantages than millennials.

I agree about the lack of good jobs, is it because we are not creating the right type of jobs here or just that we have too many graduates now?

Let's face early Gen X probably have more in common with late boomers than late Gen X and we have suffered house price booms and crashes, recessions and booms in the past so it hasn't been a constant change.

I'd say we are not creating the right jobs I think more Graduates means you need better qualifications than you would have needed on the past for some jobs.

Mistermeaner

Jobs are still there, but too many graduates have sense of entitlement that is not deserved when they have crap degrees from made up universities - labour created this ridiculous uni machine which is now such a headache for funding particularly but also expectations.

The ignorant youth are walking out of Preston poly with a degree in criminal psychology expecting to walk into a graduate scheme with a blue chip - those schemes are still around if you have a decent degree from a red brick but a silly degree is worth less even than decent a levels.

It is not the duty of government to create jobs to fit all the expectations of graduates, it's for young people to decide does the cost of the degree and their choice of degree and university help them toward their goals?

CLAPTON

Mistermeaner wrote: »

Jobs are still there, but too many graduates have sense of entitlement that is not deserved when they have crap degrees from made up universities - labour created this ridiculous uni machine which is now such a headache for funding particularly but also expectations.

The ignorant youth are walking out of Preston poly with a degree in criminal psychology expecting to walk into a graduate scheme with a blue chip - those schemes are still around if you have a decent degree from a red brick but a silly degree is worth less even than decent a levels.

It is not the duty of government to create jobs to fit all the expectations of graduates, it's for young people to decide does the cost of the degree and their choice of degree and university help them toward their goals?

well, it was Maggie that converted the old Polys into Unis