Student daughter only offered one trial job in a year

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I'm interested to know if other students are finding this.
My DD is a third year student (in September). She's been applying for jobs since April. After nearly 100 applications she's got a trial tonight as a cleaner. Forty mile round trip. No other interviews.
She has experience in retail, care and computers.
I'm proud that's she going but it's a 200 mile journey each week.
Even McDonald's have no vacancies near us.

Worse, demanding this "going to uni" indulgence is paid for by hard working, deserving people.

How are these hard working, deserving people paying for others to go to university?

Surely the problem is that she wants a summer job, by the time she learns to do it she will leave…and other than farming, tourist towns, or golf courses, does anywhere really need extra staff in the summer?

I had this moan to a clueless friend yesterday. They think teens can walk into a part time job.

When I was a student looking for a summer job I sent my CV to every hotel that I could travel too. Said I was looking for entry level work between 2 particular dates and would consider any type of work. Ended up doing housekeeping for 3 months. Maybe give that a go?

What a stupid post. How on earth does council tax go to pay for students? yes they are exempt from it but so are millions of pensioners who claim Pension credit and people on benefits who pay very little council tax. The only people they are indebted to are themselves when they end up with huge student loans to pay back .

I'd contact any football clubs near her and ask about stewards/catering there

Try phoning up pubs you can't reach by public transport. Friends have had some success with that. It's been really difficult for a while now. My dc is on a gap year but couldn't get a job until February. I'd also say to find vacancies that aren't advertised on popular search sites. Too many people apply for those.

Not my dd's experience no.
She stays on in her University town and picks up extra shifts in her usual, all round job, and then she does long shifts on other days at another job.
She also gets regular calls and messages from people asking if she can pick up some shifts for them.
I'm on holiday at the moment and every other place here has 'Help wanted' signs in the window.
Usually I live in a big City, where, apart from all the regular jobs (fast food, pubs, clubs, cafes, office temping, warehouse work, care work, lifeguarding, supermarket work - incl internet picking - , cleaning, waitressing at weddings and other events, and so forth) there are the companies that provide staff for events - sports fixtures, rock concerts etc you can register with.

My daughter is doing a housekeeping job now until the end of the month. She then has another offered in a care home. That will count towards her clinical time.

There's a company called Flair events who recruit for hospitality, sporting events etc. It's on an event by event basis, and gives great opportunity to get involved with some fun events whilst being paid. I did it for several years to top up my income. Definitely worth a look, it's hard work but really good fun, and varied. You do need to be prepared to travel a bit and get stuck in.

Student 'loans' are nothing of the kind: They are seldom repaid in full, if at all. Therefore, they are 'free' gifts, taken (under threat of prison for non-payment), from council tax payers.

These 3- year- party- payments are lavished on adults who, with no excuse or justification, choose to be parasites on other people, i.e. the council tax payers of the council giving out 'student grants'.

These council tax payers are often struggling to pay that council tax. The purported 'students' might as well be demanding luxury round the world cruises, at taxpayers' expense, and pretending it is the only way they could learn anything. They should instead be getting to work, themselves, and learning too, if they wish, online.

Not sure the thing about not paying the loans back is true since the new repayments were introduced.

you do sound very bitter. Do you think all the medical students, engineering students, nursing students, allied health professionals are parasites?

Did you know that the economic output of the U.K. higher education sector is thought to be around £116billion a year. While the amount of student loans paid out is around £21billion a year.

There’s massive wider benefits to society and the economy. https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/higher-education-contribution-to-the-economy-and-levelling-up/

It's not just students that are struggling. I have an unemployed 18 year old at home looking for work and can't find anything. On the few occasions he's got to interview for some basic kitchen or cafe jobs it's become clear a lot of the candidates are people in their 20s and 30s or older with experience and they usually get the job. A lot of grown adults are trying for the traditional teen jobs because they need the money and can't get anything better paid.

The job situation is terrible.