This country as gone into terminal decline

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I have 2 young children in school.

I am becoming more and more anxious about what sort of jobs / careers they will have open to them.

I work for very large company with 10,000s of employees.

20 years ago whe I started work here there would be 100s of entry level jobs at any given time. These are jobs that don't require experience or a degree, ideal for a school leaver, and I know dozens of people who started their career this way.

Now there are maybe 10 jobs that would fit the same criteria.so. All the jobs have been offshored.
Now are the vacancies are for very specific technical skill set or experience.

This doesn't bode well for someone who has left school at 18'or even university.

I'm an immigrant in the UK from Spain, have always worked and paid my taxes in this country, British people are not having children because as you say it's too expensive, now in the UK we have a huge aging population of pensioners and a shrinking work force, the struggle is real, and that's when immigrants come in handy: we come to this country and pay our taxes. I'm really sick and tired of the anti immigrant narrative.

No, we don't need immigrants economically

🤦‍♀️ it’s impossible to even have a debate when you get this type of response @rainingsnoring

All the figures seem to agree that our birth rate is falling, so how can we be needing more and more houses, jobs, health facilities?
Is it rocket science to suggest that if the birth rate is falling but the population is rising that a great deal of that must be because of immigration.

You don’t think life expectancy has changed at all?

Yes, simple maths.
Current pensioners paid no where near enough but are asking a much smaller generation of young workers to pay for them, despite everything else already being far more expensive now than it was previously. The figures simply don't add up.

There aren't enough jobs @terracottacountryfarm

Social media, marketing, accounting, pretty much any office based job can be done digitally. Solicitor customer service endless list

Get your facts straight and rein in your ignorance.
Most of us have paid enough - in my case, 44 years of full NI and tax contributions, so yes, I am entitled to my fcking pension.
Maybe in the 60s and 70 'barely any women worked', but that hasn't been the case for decades now.
God, no wonder this world is regressing - all those who know nothing asserting crap opinions

Northern Europe

There are plenty of jobs out there. I've worked in recruitment and seen it firsthand myself, business are crying out for workers but there is not enough people wanting to work.

It's depressing isn't it?
Much better to blame brown people right?

Tricky if you have a preexisting health condition. My daughter has type 1 diabetes developed at age 14 so it would cost £££ for her to emigrate.

There's always one! 😂
You need to calm down and go and look at the figures.

A lot of this is now though, I thought OP was talking about in 10 or 15 years as she said young children in school.

The problem with US universities is that they’re so so expensive. As is uni in the U.K. I’m a scientist, it does not pay well (well enough that they won’t get any assistance; not well enough that I have £000s to spare). Eastern Europe seems much more affordable.

Our old neighbours sold a huge house in the country having retired & paid their mortgage. They now rent a modest flat in the city centre & although they could have bought it outright they are happy to invest their money & continue renting their long-term unfurnished flat. They have all their own belongings in it & have been told the landlord has no intentions of selling. There is nothing wrong with renting if the glove fits.

There is a severe downturn in domestic demand.
Any recession always hits the construction industry first.
I know DP has seen profits down by 20% from the previous year. People are being very cautious, especially after the Labour Party's poor start to government. It's not a lack of staff; it's what the business needs to turnover to exist versus customer expectations.

I may be wrong, but I thought that the UK is at the forefront of many creative areas in the film and gaming world ?

I'm not sure that it has ever been easy for creatives such as artists and writers, and those who graduated in subjects like history, philosophy etc to land secure well paid jobs.

Just because you can get a visa doesn't mean that it's practical or even possible to work abroad for a British business. For tax and legal reasons, many British companies will not allow employees to work outside the country on a full time basis.

"Digital nomads" do exist, but they are a tiny minority of the overall workforce.

Unfettered global capitalism. Once the likes of Elon Musk get their way, it will only get worse.

Problem is though is that not everyone wants to do those jobs and they’re very underpaid. I don’t have kids but if I did I would be very frightened about their futures because of the very real threats of climate change and AI.

I'm not surprised by what you say at all. I would be surprised we are not in official recession next year and ongoing!

UK unis are only going to get more expensive and will likely end up where US ones are.

Too many lazy folk of working age relying on benefits and claiming mental health as reasons not to work are the ones who drain the resources in the UK. They’re an embarrassment as they sit on their backsides watching daytime TV on their huge TV screens and smoking fags and weed.

People who travel from other countries to work/live over here must think the British are a laughing stock. People from other countries are often fluent in two or more languages. They’re hard working and they have got more self respect than the lazy feckers in the UK.

@Miley1967 there is a weird narrative that all pensioners only receive a state pension and no other benefits. Often by the same people who criticise the lazy and the work shy, do they think that group all of sudden change their mindset when they hit retirement?

A country that stops providing for the productive, working populace will soon be unable to provide for the dependent, non-working populace too - no matter how deserving they are.

All retraining as plumbers or electricians isn't the answer. These are service industries which support a thriving economy.

We need industries that generate wealth for the country like manufacturing, energy and banking.