er no sorry but you are really pissing me off now. "off with anxiety/adhd" and shaming people for being on job seekers because it is a pittance and you'd have been sooo embarrassed. You should be embarrassed for saying these things.
I get that some of the younger generation's attitude is princess-y. It is. But it is our generation who made them that way. It didn't come from nowhere. People - like me - are not "off" due to ADHD. My life has been a painful shit show because of it. You would not want to have my brain, trust me. And I have done everything I can to work and contribute and all the rest of it. It is a disability. It is quite literally disabling and a lot of us did not have it managed at all by the generation before us which, I think, is why we have tried so hard to make our kids' grow up in a more understanding environment.
There's so much more to it all though than these over arching stereotypes of 'lazy' kids, or 'anxiety' or 'too above menial jobs'. Yes there are some who fit those categories. There have been in every generation. But actually it's reflective of a society which is not functioning.
A society which has wrapped itself up in knots because it allows elitist organisations like the BBC to continue despite the fact they're regularly proven to be corrupt bastards - and how do they convince us to let them continue despite their bad behaviour? Oh yes, by creating tick boxing exercises for show which encourage anyone applying for a job to have to openly go on and on about their various 'disadvantages' or they WON'T get a job. Not to mention that every show they create must also promote 'diversities' as positives, enforcing the need to be categorised as vulnerable to be of importance. It all just perpetuates rather than creating any actual positive change.
Then there is the fact that, as much as the government will try to pretend otherwise, there just aren't a lot of gettable jobs - as you say, you used to pop into the local shop or pub to ask for a job. Well, pubs and shops are either shut or are on highly reduced staff numbers because they're trying not to shut.
Then there's the fact that people, for a long time, were told basically you must go to uni or you're not achieving. A government backed campaign of 'learning a trade isn't good enough'. Well that sent a lot of people through university, getting them in to debt, for no apparent reason when they could have been out in the world learning and earning as they went.
Then there's the whole being unable to move out and rent, let alone buy a house. It's pretty demotivating to know you're going to work a job you don't like to achieve...nothing. Other than working forever because retirement age is basically 'death bed' and even if you could retire early you couldn't afford the care home fees. Plus for some reason our society looks down on intergenerational homes so your kids aren't going to want you living with them....
If you are lucky enough to have had reasonably straightforward path through the working world, be grateful. Im sure there are things that have happened in your life that you feel were unlucky, things that you had to overcome. So I wonder why, when you see other people struggling and not doing the things you feel they should be, you just assume they're kinda lazy fucks rather than thinking they must be in the middle of trying to overcome something too.