Nearly 1m young people out of work

When you live at mum and dad’s it doesn’t really matter, it’s just pocket money.

If this is all true, what about the many "covid" young people who ARE working/contributing towards our society. They lived through this as well!!

If this is all true, what about the many "covid" young people who ARE working/contributing towards our society. They lived through this as well!!

I don’t agree. One of the main reasons I don’t agree is I was educating my kids at home during covid while my partner went to work every day. Neither of us were Covid Walking Cunts aimlessly wandering through the countryside or riding a bloody Peloton or buying a dog or endlessly baking or whatever other ridiculous shit people were doing over that period.

As a result I have two kids who are completely unscathed by Covid. In fact it ended up doing me a huge favour as I realised how behind educationally my older child was and I was able to catch him up to the point that he’s now top sets and hopefully on his way to a decent set of exam results.

My point isn’t a pro or anti lockdown post - it is what it is, and what happened, happened. My issue is that we have utterly failed young people, by just expecting them to pick back up where they left off. In many hundreds of thousands of cases, they watched their parents on furlough sit in the garden and get paid to do absolutely nothing for months on end, yet now we criticise them when they think they’re too good for an entry level role. That’s if they aren’t being criticised because their parents are on benefits so they are now too.
Kids learn what they live, and half the time they’ve turned out they way they have because their parents were not perhaps the role models they so often pat themselves on the back for. We owe it to them to demand much more from our leaders so they at least have half a chance of a life like we’ve had.

I’m with you. We are a shitty generation of adults - and I’m talking about all the parents of children in their 40’s upwards - who have utterly let the next generation down. We protected the elderly - who, quite honestly, have had their time, and could protect themselves by isolating - but instead, locked everyone down and kept our kids at home for months and months. We sacrificed the wellbeing and development of a generation as a result. We now have a generation of kids who either can’t cope, won’t cope, or can’t work because there is none, even if they are resilient and want to work. We have set them up for that by taking them out of school, socially isolating them and then exposing them to stupid alarmist fucking news broadcasts on the number of rising deaths, played on repeat, day after day. And we have done fuck all of any value to really help them recover as a result. All those old people we protected in doing so died or will die anyway, but vast numbers of young people have a long life of uncertainty, borderline poverty and pessimism to look forward to. All while never moving out of home because they can’t afford it.
On top of that, they also have loads of middle aged people who had way more advantages and possibilities as a generation now telling them they’re all workshy and useless. And all this, largely from Gen X’ers, who are the first to wang on about how great we are as a generation, despite the fact we are the very generation that put mobile phones and iPads into our kids hands from a young age, yet now wonder why they can’t function like the generations before did 🙄

We should be ashamed, really.

And before some pro-lockdown person tells me how bad it all was, and how wrong I am, I worked front line. It was still a pile of shit, handled appallingly, which we sleepwalked into and the biggest losers were our kids.

I have two cousins aged 17 & 18, both studying, both working part time in B&Q. My niece is a student, also working part time in a bar. There are jobs out there if you put in the effort to get one. When I was a student I got two part time jobs by walking into shops and asking if they had any jobs going. I’m also diagnosed autistic and it was very difficult to do it but I needed money so I had to force myself to do it despite how uncomfortable and stressful it was. Initiative and genuine need to survive seems to have escaped a lot of young people nowadays. They are mollycoddled and have been raised with ridiculously unrealistic expectations about what they should expect from life at the launch stage.

I was pro lockdown though😬

They just needed support to reintegrate. But nothing happened.

I’m with you. We are a shitty generation of adults - and I’m talking about all the parents of children in their 40’s upwards - who have utterly let the next generation down. We protected the elderly - who, quite honestly, have had their time, and could protect themselves by isolating - but instead, locked everyone down and kept our kids at home for months and months. We sacrificed the wellbeing and development of a generation as a result. We now have a generation of kids who either can’t cope, won’t cope, or can’t work because there is none, even if they are resilient and want to work. We have set them up for that by taking them out of school, socially isolating them and then exposing them to stupid alarmist fucking news broadcasts on the number of rising deaths, played on repeat, day after day. And we have done fuck all of any value to really help them recover as a result. All those old people we protected in doing so died or will die anyway, but vast numbers of young people have a long life of uncertainty, borderline poverty and pessimism to look forward to. All while never moving out of home because they can’t afford it.
On top of that, they also have loads of middle aged people who had way more advantages and possibilities as a generation now telling them they’re all workshy and useless. And all this, largely from Gen X’ers, who are the first to wang on about how great we are as a generation, despite the fact we are the very generation that put mobile phones and iPads into our kids hands from a young age, yet now wonder why they can’t function like the generations before did 🙄

We should be ashamed, really.

And before some pro-lockdown person tells me how bad it all was, and how wrong I am, I worked front line. It was still a pile of shit, handled appallingly, which we sleepwalked into and the biggest losers were our kids.

The employment landscape has changed massively, physical retail and hospitality are dying industries so why look for jobs there, and formal employment is never going to be the same for young people. People of our generation turn their nose up at kids wanting to be you tubers but tbh, I think good on those that are trying their luck, gaining skills in digital content creation, and earning some money. The advantage that young people have over what we did is online information and training at their fingertips. A lot of skills can be self-taught, including staying ahead of AI. Yes it might not lead to the perfect permanent job but I do think those who can demonstrate continuous self- learning and creativity network will eventually see success via a mixture of permanent and temporary opportunities.

Benefits should never give an equivalent lifestyle to working, and until we address that ... nothing will change.

Yeah well we're all pretty fed up tbf

Working our arses off and being taxed to the hilt

I’m with you. We are a shitty generation of adults - and I’m talking about all the parents of children in their 40’s upwards - who have utterly let the next generation down. We protected the elderly - who, quite honestly, have had their time, and could protect themselves by isolating - but instead, locked everyone down and kept our kids at home for months and months. We sacrificed the wellbeing and development of a generation as a result. We now have a generation of kids who either can’t cope, won’t cope, or can’t work because there is none, even if they are resilient and want to work. We have set them up for that by taking them out of school, socially isolating them and then exposing them to stupid alarmist fucking news broadcasts on the number of rising deaths, played on repeat, day after day. And we have done fuck all of any value to really help them recover as a result. All those old people we protected in doing so died or will die anyway, but vast numbers of young people have a long life of uncertainty, borderline poverty and pessimism to look forward to. All while never moving out of home because they can’t afford it.
On top of that, they also have loads of middle aged people who had way more advantages and possibilities as a generation now telling them they’re all workshy and useless. And all this, largely from Gen X’ers, who are the first to wang on about how great we are as a generation, despite the fact we are the very generation that put mobile phones and iPads into our kids hands from a young age, yet now wonder why they can’t function like the generations before did 🙄

We should be ashamed, really.

And before some pro-lockdown person tells me how bad it all was, and how wrong I am, I worked front line. It was still a pile of shit, handled appallingly, which we sleepwalked into and the biggest losers were our kids.

My child is one of them. Applying every day for jobs, working in a charity shop three days a week. Not signing on. 7 months now

That’s crazy, hire someone who could be a total liability then you can’t sack them wtf?

Labour won't bring in compulsory work placements. All the shitty schemes in the World won't make a jot of difference when it now costs so much to employ young people.

The deal forever has been "yes, you are young, have no experience, will mess up, will take time to train.......but you are cheap so I will take you on and see how you go". That's not the case anymore. My company always took on school leavers but we haven't done that for years. Might as well employ somebody experienced. And the last thing I would want is some divvy who is forced to be here on a compulsory placement.

Over generous benefits don't help either. Welfare should be slashed.