To think talk of people having to find better paid jobs unrealistic?

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I have heard a lot of politicians and people generally in the media etc talk about how people need to find better paid jobs to cope with the rising cost of living. Am I alone in finding this frankly unreasonable and unrealistic ? Some of us have got limited means to retrain! Training costs time and money. I am currently working full time in a public sector role where there has been a pay freeze for 7 years!! My family commitments mean I can’t just get any job with evening hours etc as I wouldn’t be able to pay the childcare.

I look at Job ads and just do not see many highly paid roles advertised, particularly in my area (rural midlands). My father told me I chose the wrong sector and should find a job in finance. He knows I’m rubbish with numbers (just passed GCSE maths with a grade C) and moving job sector in your 40’s-50’s isn’t straightforward. I’d probably have to take a pay cut initially which would put me back at square one!

It's such a shame we didn't learn from lockdown.
It became so very clear then which the 'key worker' jobs were, the ones that society couldn't do without, the jobs that were so essential to our survival that the people doing them had to be given special arrangements to continue doing them.
Care, health, food production and supply, utilites and infrastructure services etc.

Yet now, just a year or so later, we are telling people in these jobs that they need to be doing better, that these jobs are not good enough and something to be sneered at and anyone still doing them needs to leave, or else they deserve to be in poverty.

Disgraceful.

So do some people really think that some essential jobs are so menial that the people doing them don’t deserve to earn enough to eat and keep warm? ( and yet entertainers and footballers deserve to be super rich)?

Sadly yes, there are some people who think like that - and many of them are on MN (and the rest are politicians it seems). Of course they would all be first in line to complain when there aren't enough people willing to do the low paid menial jobs!

Yeah, if person A gets a better payed job, then a person B would have to do his previous job. How will person B survive if the job doesn't pay enough?