Who am I? As part of a nation obsessed with categories and (unsubstantiated) statistics what particular box do I fit into? Seeing as I did not get the 3rd job I have interviewed for yesterday in just as many weeks, I've decided that today my not so unique selling point is that I am a N,E,E,T, the lovingly coined phrase for those of us who are a burden to society, the state and our parents - not in employment education or training. I am the one in ten in London who is unemployed, the one in five 'young' people who are not employed etc.
We are the future!! Yes the majority of the UK rioters are the future yay! We are the ones that are going to be paying for the baby boomers' decreasing pensions. But how will we pay for them in taxes if we cannot find jobs and to make matters worse they will be in the jobs that we need until they're 67!
As a nation of moaners it is difficult for all of our concerns to be taken seriously, so what's a fresh out of carefree childhood Briton to do? When you're in your teens you inevitably think you're invincible and that you will be forever young. Wrong! Perhaps that's part of the reason we are seemingly in a state of chaos? The sense of entitlement that led to the plethora of graduates with a piece of paper but no life and/or work skills to the rioters that did not give it a second thought to joining the looting frenzy as soon as the opportunity presented itself.
Since we seem to be a slave to this enigmatic thing called the free market maybe we should just accept a number of things; that the market is down and we just need to wait it out until things improve? Even more depressingly, some even think that the good times will never return as the era of credit with no questions asked and 100% mortgages were always a fallacy waiting to be exposed. Should we camp at St Pauls to protest against capitalism et al? Try innovative ways to get a job e.g. advertising yourself on youtube or walk with a board in the City etc? Live with our parents forever, who are also struggling with redundancies, pay cuts, lower pensions and increasing utility bills? Start a business in a climate where people have no money to spare and the European tourists are surely to fall sharply as they're suffering even more than us? Use our shiny EU passports to up sticks to another Member State? Or languish where one of my teachers at school said I would be - on the dole? Well at the moment I've chosen the last option, but only until March - as that's when my government I did not vote for will cut the apron strings.
C'est la vie - should we accept it or try to find answers? Til my next rant, an unproud NEET
See also http://raraproductions.blogspot.com/ & http://anbarrockny.blogspot.com/
I am in the same position as you. I have no idea how make it better. Under qualified for some jobs and over qualified for others....
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