Uni Students finding it hard to get part time jobs because of Covid and people working from home ??

[Charliescar]

My son is back at uni and he says he and his friends are struggling to find part time work and his some of his friends are very worried as their parents cannot afford to help them much with money .

Last year , he said their were lots of jobs , this year hardly any . The students are worried .

I guess so many people are working from home and do not want to return to the office . I think this is another consequence for our younger generation .
I am not sure if we have thought about this .
How do we feel about this ? Are we happy that future generations may not have the opportunity for part time work when studying ? Is this going to deepen the class divide ?

My heart aches for my graduate son who with over 200 job applications, has not received a single reply. Applying to everything within a 20 mile radius.

I am concerned for the whole younger generation who have been sold massively short with education, fees, lack of jobs, lack of hope. It's soul destroying, and with furlough about to end, there'll be more redundancies.

I don't want to come across as a harbinger of doom, but really, I do think the younger generation will suffer quite badly for career prospects as well as part time jobs while studying. The market's changed overnight and rugs have been pulled from people's feet.

It’s so worrying .

I myself am still furloughed from my job .

I live in a uni city myself and there are hardly any jobs for me either .

I have 2 students who would like jobs, unfortunately I am unable to return to my closed office which isn't in town and but coffees that I don't drink.

I'm not really sure what you want people to do? Quite rightly a lot of employers are prioritising those who have lost their jobs over students.

@WaxOnFeckOff I think the problem is their are going to be parents and families struggling with this , houses have already been rented etc.

I think young people could turn on the older generations .

Working from home , is great for some people but it will kill our society possibly ? Who knows

I'm not disagreeing but I'm not sure what you expect people working at home to do? My office is shut.

@WaxOnFeckOff , lots of people are not wanting to return to their offices now .

There was post on here and lots of people replied to say the reason they didn’t want to return was nothing to do with Covid . They just didn’t want to commute etc.

I am Just wondering if people see that this msy have an affect on their kids at uni , or even this who have younger kids and hope they will go off to uni one day , but may not be able to fund it because their are no casual jobs anymore .

My dniece is at university, but has did some care work training and has been fortunate enough to get a job in care work ( which she loves)
There are virtually no jobs in retail or hospitality

Yes, I think virtually everyone sees that we're in an economic crisis. How can you not? It's all over the news.

And yes, obviously there aren't jobs in all sorts of areas. It is monumentally shit. It is going to be catastrophic for a lot of young people who have no other access to money. Student loans won't cover everything; they haven't for decades.

And then students will graduate and there won't be jobs for them. A lot of people are losing their jobs at the moment.

I'm not deliberately being bleak, but all I can think to say is, yes, of course everyone knows this is the case. You could only avoid knowing if you've sealed yourself off in a contact-free world for the past six months.

Has done

I think we all knew at the start of this that it would cause the biggest change in society for decades. The answer isn't to go back to where we were, wasting massive resources on travel, offices and unnecessary spending. We all need to adapt and find a new way to be. I'm clearly not unsympathetic, I have 2 DC that have 3 years of uni to go and would like jobs now and when they graduate, but I can't fault employers for not prioritising them or blame people for not wanting to go back into offices.

I don't think it's so much to do with people working from home, but the unemployment and economy down the pan. There are WFH part time jobs and there will be more in the future. There will also be non WFH ones that students have always had, pubs, restaurants, bars, supermarkets etc. But again loads of people applying for those jobs at the minute due to covid job losses.

There seems to be lots of take away delivery jobs near us, but even though DC both drive and could access cars, the insurance change to business use and driving at night makes it not viable. In cities it might be easier as they could cycle.

Are they looking for jobs in different sectors? There are few Jobs in retail and hospitality about at the moment but there does seem to be an increase in cleaning and care jobs. Also I have noticed that there seems to have been an increase in the last week or so of the number of people returning to offices (I assume as kids are back to school), so hopefully things will start to pick up.

There was post on here and lots of people replied to say the reason they didn’t want to return was nothing to do with Covid . They just didn’t want to commute etc.

It that’s a perfectly valid life choice. I’m working from home, doing so saves me 90 minutes of a commute plus travel costs, parking and costs for coffee, lunch etc. My office is closed, so I couldn’t return if I wanted to but when the option is there I still plan to work from home because it’s a good choice for me and my family.

Maybe instead of questioning folks’ right to make choices that suit their family life, we should be questioning an economy so utterly dependent on people spending money they don’t have on things they don’t need.

Looking for jobs in cleaning is a good call. Many places that are open are closed every other day for cleaning so likely to require more labour than previously and likely could be done outside the working day. Are your children open to these jobs?

Also connected to this , when our children do finish uni , finding a career ? How will this happen ?
If everyone is working at home ?
I remember when I got my first job , we had a laugh all the young ones working together , went to the pub after work etc .

They were how I made friends . Are we going g to deprive future generations of social interaction. They already spend a lot of time on screens , will this be the end for them ? I do worry for the mental health of young people and children.

I know a lot of people on here have small children and see this as along time away in the future for them , but it does come around .

Morrison’s and Iceland have announced that they’re taking on a load of people

There will be supermarket jobs in the run up to Christmas

As a PP said, there is care work available.

Also, how many times have we had threads moaning that they can’t get a reliable cleaner?? Domestic cleaning will be easy to get hours in.

Tutoring younger children?

HTH

Cleaning jobs are a good call , although not sure if young people are going to be great at that to be honest 😂

That’s true about supermarkets- they will need people.

Not sure if care work is good for students , especially with the Covid situation . Also care work should be more of a vocation? People that work on not out of Choice would struggle and not make the best carers .

I would not have wanted to do care work at uni .

@readysteadlife we were actually briefly discussing this on a fb page for our workplace as people were sharing photos and talking about all the shenanigans we all got up to. It will be hard if all our young adults work experiences are sitting on their own in their bedroom with nothing but the occasional joke being told in a zoom session for memories.

Also, the leisure industry will still take on some people. Just need a lifeguard qualification.

Wow, you're pretty negative about young people, @Readysteadife.

I've known a fair few students do cleaning jobs - it fits around studying quite well.

Any work they can do from their laptop at home?
DS uni had quite a few jobs for students via their uni's own work website - doing research work on campus/library. Has he checked out his own uni work sources?
Ask if anyone knows of any part time jobs going on local Facebook page? People do that on my local page and there's always half a dozen suggestions of whose advertising for staff at that moment.

@SarahAndQuack did you not see laughing emoji !

My son is awful at cleaning soo have that as my point of reference .

Ok then.

I'm probably not seeing the funny in a generation of unemployed people. But teach your son to clean, maybe? Like parents do?