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Some very troubling trends for young people today: 1) Education has become much more expensive than just 10 years ago - you typically leave college with anywh

Some very troubling trends for young people today: 1) Education has become much more expensive than just 10 years ago - you typically leave college with anywhere upto ~50K in debt 2) The Economy has changed - companies are making do with fewer people despite huge demand - (basically a jobless recovery) 3) Asinine trend of "you need to have a job to get a job" - basically some one already employed has 2-3 job offers but some one starting out has no one willing to take a risk on them 4) Some narrow sectors are indeed booming but most are locked out of them

rectangletangle 12y ago
>Asinine trend of "you need to have a job to get a job" - basically some one already employed has 2-3 job offers but some one starting out has no one willing to take a risk on them This one is particularly relevant. It's literally impossible to get your foot in the door these days. I've had three separate tech companies string me along through multiple rounds of interviews, simply to say that the position was axed due to them requiring someone with more "experience", or funding was cut for the position due to the abysmal state of the economy. To be clear I wasn't even properly rejected (that's much easier to deal with), the positions were literally withdrawn. Among my group of friends I'm the lucky one to even land interviews. Most of them are severely underemployed, or unemployed.
- SixSigma 12y ago
  I'm a single sample point. In three years I have gone from unemployment with zero experience and pay in engineering to £21k per annum. I did this by doing part-time courses in Autocad and then the same in Manufacturing Engineering, doing a year of minimum wage to pay for the first year of courses. But I share the fears and doubts of the poorly skilled individuals. With no experience of the workplace or what it takes to be a decent employee that gets somewhere. Being unemployed is depressing and you have to be mentally strong to survive it. Making chances for yourself is much easier said than done.

rectangletangle 12y ago

>Asinine trend of "you need to have a job to get a job" - basically some one already employed has 2-3 job offers but some one starting out has no one willing to take a risk on them This one is particularly relevant. It's literally impossible to get your foot in the door these days. I've had three separate tech companies string me along through multiple rounds of interviews, simply to say that the position was axed due to them requiring someone with more "experience", or funding was cut for the position due to the abysmal state of the economy. To be clear I wasn't even properly rejected (that's much easier to deal with), the positions were literally withdrawn. Among my group of friends I'm the lucky one to even land interviews. Most of them are severely underemployed, or unemployed.

SixSigma 12y ago
I'm a single sample point. In three years I have gone from unemployment with zero experience and pay in engineering to £21k per annum. I did this by doing part-time courses in Autocad and then the same in Manufacturing Engineering, doing a year of minimum wage to pay for the first year of courses. But I share the fears and doubts of the poorly skilled individuals. With no experience of the workplace or what it takes to be a decent employee that gets somewhere. Being unemployed is depressing and you have to be mentally strong to survive it. Making chances for yourself is much easier said than done.