Work work work

[Stumped]

It would be interesting to learn the age range tied to the percentage poll. It would appear that the older members have (generaly) had fewer jobs than their younger counterpart - which may well reflect on the lack of proper career prospects in today's throwaway society. Most jobs these days seem to be offered on short term contracts which benefit the employers far more than the job candidate.

 

[Margaret Pilkington]

I think the job market is vastly different to when I left school.(more years ago than I care to think about)
The boys would aim to have an apprenticeship with Howard and Bulloughs, or go on the railways...or even down the pit.
Girls would look for something in an office.......lots of my peers wanted to be shorthand typists, some wanted to be hairdressers, comptometer operators(no, I don't know what it is either).......shop work was also a choice.
Many of these jobs were seen to 'set you up'...if not for life, for a good long time.
These days there are few jobs that could be seen as 'for life'.......and young people today have different aspirations.
How many of your peers expressed a desire to go to University? It wasn't an option for the vast majority of us.........we were factory fodder, although there was laways the option of going to night school to further your education, but that took a lot of committment.
You had to really want to improve your lot to take that on.

 

[Stumped]

I think the job market is vastly different to when I left school.(more years ago than I care to think about)
The boys would aim to have an apprenticeship with Howard and Bulloughs, or go on the railways...or even down the pit.
Girls would look for something in an office.......lots of my peers wanted to be shorthand typists, some wanted to be hairdressers, comptometer operators(no, I don't know what it is either).......shop work was also a choice.
Many of these jobs were seen to 'set you up'...if not for life, for a good long time.
These days there are few jobs that could be seen as 'for life'.......and young people today have different aspirations.
How many of your peers expressed a desire to go to University? It wasn't an option for the vast majority of us.........we were factory fodder, although there was laways the option of going to night school to further your education, but that took a lot of committment.
You had to really want to improve your lot to take that on.

My sister became a comptometer operater. I think it was just a posh word for a shorthand typist. I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong!

 

[flashy]

When i was in my teens you could just walk out of one job straight into another, you can't do that anymore, you have to go through numerous amounts of red tape even before you get an interview

 

[shillelagh]

counting paper rounds and temporary jobs im up to 9

paper round mon -sat
sunday paper round
waitress
3 weeks at broughtons in the office (was in 6th form and got 3 weeks off)
YTS - 6 months at business support unit 6 months at FPW Axles (they bought out part of Moss Gears) they kept me on til 2 weeks before my 21st birthday
accounts
assistant storekeeper
receptionist/admin

think some firms may look at your work history and think .. mm he/she doesnt seem to stay longer than 6 months .. is it worth training him/her up to do the job and for them to leave when trained up .. other firms may think .. plenty of experience .. its a catch 22 situation ... think it all depends on what they're looking for ...

i know someone who had worked for bt for many years .. and finally left .. went to the jobcentre to see what they could do for them .. never been in a jobcentre in their life .. and the girl in the jobcentre was gobsmacked when she asked for the start date at bt .. when they said 1970 ... she said you worked for bt for 40 years .. we dont get that many people in here who have never been here before!!!

 

[blazey]

Is this your way of gently telling us you are no longer persuing the law degree?

You never did tell us how your exam results turned out.

I do hope this time, you get good enough results to earn enough to support yourself and the tax payers you are borrowing this latest 'career move', expense from.

Only joking, I know you will apply yourself in a similar manner to your last University course.

(Note to self, don't go for early retirement, Blazey is trying again, someone has to pay for it).

Actually I graduated with a 2:1 and decided that I would miss working with children more than anything, as I spent two years of my degree doing this, so I decided a great use of my law degree would be to look to childrens' rights and become a social worker. I think they call it "diversifying" and tailoring the skills you already have to do exactly what you want.

The NHS funds social worker study at any level, undergraduate or postgraduate, and as I have worked ever since I was 16 I don't see why I shouldn't make use of available funds to study for a course which will greatly benefit people. It isn't like tax payers will have to pay the 25k of debt I already have.

Also, I said on this forum a long time ago that I was going to be working with children when I graduated. Law isn't something I directly want to do any more because I feel sitting in an office would not suit me, and my work experience showed me that law is just that. I loved my degree though so this is my way of using it. We live in a world where you need both qualifications and experience to get anywhere. Fortunately I have both because I'm not lazy. Hence why I'm one of the few of my graduate friends who is seen to never be out of work whilst some of them still haven't found work a year on.