[Margaret Pilkington]

it is a different kind of harder time.
I don't know about you, but I left school and hit the job market in one of those 'bulge years'........I don't recall there being any kind of training schemes....unless of course you were taken on to be an apprentice.
Pospects were not that bright for us either. You might say 'yes, but there was always manufacturing'.....and there was.......if you could get a job.

I eventually got a job...but it wasn't what I wanted to do.