Unpopular opinion

Well perhaps he is a better employer than he is at debate? I dunno

 

I’m actually on JSA at the moment, first time in 25 years. I’ve had 3 jobs in all that time.

I’m currently living on 75 quid a week, luckily my Mrs is working and paying the mortgage but my redundancy money is shrinking by the day.

I’ve paid almost 500k in taxes and NI in the last 15 years alone. I’m looking for work, I’ve applied for over 80 jobs in the last 4 months, and had 3 interviews.

The current state of the job market for skilled workers is at an all time low. Private sector agencies farming CVs and flogging Data is appalling. The Job Centre are inundate with dealing with benefit claimants and trying to investigate people rather than do what they used to do, get people back into work and help businesses find employees.

I go to sign on every week, I’m a successful sales Director with a good reputation, having worked at a number of big companies and done well.

Some weeks I’ll apply for 20 jobs, some none, either no jobs come up that are suitable and some times I’m burned out. I think I might have earned that right, but in my experience the people doing the job are pissing in the wind. They have 10 minute windows to basically make sure I’m not taking the ****. No one can in a 10 minute meeting help someone to get a job. The worlds ******.

They’ve sold every support function to the private sector and basically no one gives a **** unless they can position you in no time and get 2k handshake for **** all.

 

Not sure why you've directed that at me, I sympathise with JSA claimants on the whole. Capitalism cannot work at full employment.

Given the £20,000 or so I sent to the Student Loans Company I'm going to have a guess at "me". Another thing that millennials have to put up with thanks to the parasites that went before. This generation is the first to be worse off than the previous one. Ever.

 

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Given the £20,000 or so I sent to the Student Loans Company I'm going to have a guess at "me". Another thing that millennials have to put up with thanks to the parasites that went before. This generation is the first to be worse off than the previous one. Ever.[/QUOTE]
Ask for your money back mate, you've clearly come out thick and bitter

 

I don't agree with calling all of the older generation "parasites", many will have worked hard throughout their lives for their keep. But he is correct on the whole.

 

So you agree with him that free access to the NHS should be denied to people once they turn 70 and that, "They deserve no sympathy and hopefully we'll cut them off sooner rather than later"? I had you down as a more compassionate and empathic person than that.

 

I'm not a "millenial" but i believe i still owe the student loan company 12 grand and i finished uni 18 years ago: it's not a modern thing.

 

Where on earth has he said that? I agreed with the fact the younger generation is fecked. I think the NHS is fantastic and should remain free to all regardless of age.

 

Sounds like you're a similar age to me (37) if you finished uni 18 or so years ago- that would class you as a millennial or on the very cusp of it= people born from 1980 to mid 90s?

 

Post #55, it's on page 3 of the thread, it's the post I quoted that he/she replied to.

 

Ha ha no this was my 2nd degree... born 50 years ago

 

Ah, haha! I finished my second one in 2016

 

I went to Holgate in the early 70s. The number of lads who went to Uni was minimal considering Holgate was a Grammar school. Back in the day most further education was through ONC/ HNC etc which was part time whilst having a job. Tony Blair wanted 50% of the population to have further education irrespective of the nature of the degree. This was always going to be difficult to finance.

Both my kids went to Uni as did their spouses. They have degrees which whilst they were not job specific have enabled them to acquire jobs which they may not have if they had not acquired degrees.

With regard to loan repayment unless you have volunteered to make payments then unless you earn £25K pa on plan 2 you don't make repayments and above that they are at 9%. That means that if earning £45k pa then the repayments would be £1,800 pa. There is cost benefit in having the degree ?

Our generation is far better off than the previous generation but they were the war/post war generation so it was a very low starting point. If you think that growing up in the sixties and adulthood in the late 70s and 80s was a cake walk then you have a very rosy coloured view of those times.

With regard to the property wealth held by our generation this could be passed down to the millennials when we croak if it hasn't been used to pay for our healthcare.

Take a look at the government's proposals for inheritance tax which if replaced by life time allowance would make a significant tax liability for even modest estates whilst benefiting the super rich. A tax on your generation.

There, that's it !