We have the capability and the technology to make an abundance of everything we 'need' without everyone working a full time 'job'.....it isn't jobs that we want.....it's access to what we 'need' without having to earn 'money'. Learn about the Resource Based Economy being advocated by the Zeitgeist movement and the Venus Project. In that system everyone would only have to be willing to 'voluntarily' work for just a few hours a week to have absolutely everything they need.
I'm in my third year of uni and currently enjoying that 'fuck what am I going to do next' panic, exacerbated by news of friends who have just graduated. Some are doing fantastically well, landing one fortuitous circumstance after another, while others struggled enormously to find work stacking shelves as were turned down for being "overqualified". Maybe the government could try to tackle the age-old catch 22 of 'you can't get the job without experience, can't get experience without experience'?
Many people I went to school with, mostly those who did not complete doctoral programs therefore cannot get certification so easily in the States, have gone to Taiwan, Japan, etc and teach English, art, etc in ENGLISH-speaking classes... those nations focus on VERY young (preschool up) English teaching, but few adults there are bilingual so they simply let kids adapt to teachers who can't speak the local language!
As for #occupy, here, we're speaking with local gov'ts first. It's long-overdue.
Jazza come stai? spero tutto bene! Posso commentare in italiano? Ho deciso che seguiro' attivamente questo canale da ora in poi. Google translator can help you to understand if your italian got worse.. ;-)
Btw riots in Rome were mainly caused by some moles. the government needs an enemy <-- crisis building to create consensus. But this argument needs a real long long discussion! hope you're good and see you soon!
If you build it they will come. There need to be the wealthy building cities. It is not a problem of a lack of resources, it is a problem of stagnant money. If we allow the wealthy to be wealthy, they need to contribute to the flow of money; however, the same could be said for non-workers around the world. I am not saying exploit them; however, welfare was never meant to be a career. There should be a symbiosis. Disparities in classes lead to a depression or a revolution. Both r being tempered
I've been looking for work for a while now. Slightly soul-destroying. It's that old conundrum: it's hard to get a job without experience, but you can't get experience without a job. I'm currently looking to having to work for free (via volunteering and such).
@DratVanity Volunteering is good. You might get some ideas, experiences, and training that can land you a job. However, don't dedicate yourself to volunteering too much. Remain focused on the job search.
I got the first job for which I applied, about 2 months after I graduated. It was a temporary contract, but I got an extension. God willing I'll keep getting extensions and not have to worry about job-seeking.
Greetings from San Francisco! Anyhow, the economy is very suckish nowadays. My eldest brother is on his 3rd year of college and his major is art. He's very talented with what he does but, there's not much of a future for artists. He was considering something more "useful" that could help contribute to society other than art.
Seeing as me graduating would be a good few years from now seeing as I've literally just started my first A-Level year. I'm not sure if it's going to get worse, but it probably will do.
Chances are I'll be looking to go abroad to work in languages or something similar, it does seem like the best option for me but like I said, it could change when it comes to my time.. I'm also doing a variety of subjects and maybe languages to increase my choices and opportunities of actually finding some work..
I don't like to think about getting a job post-uni at the moment. I think there are just going to be less and less opportunities with everything being privatised by the government. I don't think the conservatives are trying in the slightest to improve the situation, for anyone, well apart from a tiny percentage of society made up of the upper class.
I think there is a little bit of 'message' lacking in the occupy campaign but I do think it shows how angry people are.
@ItsJeanHere If you think the Conservatives are just trying to keep their buddies in the black do you think the Lib Dems are doing well at holding them back as they claim? I agree that there seems to be a lack of message; there is a protest in the centre of manchester and they just seem to be sitting in tents and telling people to join them...
@rhymingwithoranges I don't honestly think the Lib Dems are doing anything. I think if they are holding back the conservatives then I don't want to consider what else they could be doing to target the working class. But I'm just a big lefty. Alot of people have said that they don't quite understand the point of the occupations. I gather it is to do with the majority of money being held by a minority but I'm not exactly sure how clear their campaign is, there are clearer causes that need support.
I'm out of education now, but I can't get hired by anyone because I'm disabled. I was actually fired for my disability from my previous job, and I haven't been able to find work since and it's hard. I can't pull in on disability benefits because I don't have a primary doctor. I don't have a primary doctor because I don't have insurance. and I don't have insurance because I don't have a job.
It sucks and personally, I'm very worried about my future as far as financial stability.
@xmaranduh Crap, I am assuming you are American. Is there not anything against discriminatory firing in your state's laws? If not write to the equivalent of your council (not sure what it would be there). If that doesn't work write to the equivalent of your MP (maybe a mayor or someone similar) and if that fails write to the press. Good luck!
@rhymingwithoranges I am, indeed. And while there are laws against actively firing someone on discriminatory grounds, there are no laws against firing someone based on exaggerated claims of incompetence. I've seen people fired for being "distracting and inappropriate at work" which is code for "they were gay". It's a horrible thing and I really wouldn't know where to start if I were to write someone being that it's my word against there's. PS: Thank you for taking time to reply to me~
Hi there, Jazza. The economy sucks. No doubt about it. And it's really sad that the feeling is that many UKers should emigrate in order to find work. That's great that you took it upon yourself to learn a skill (other languages like Chinese) in order to make it easier to find a job. Others need to do the same. Regarding protests, I agree that wealth is way too concentrated in so few hands in many countries, so I support that. But these problems are very complex.
@studentdotcom I got lucky with Chinese, it just happened to be the thing I loved doing and a massive comodity down the line. I agree that the whole structure of society is far too complex - it's not something that is going to change over night; we can't have a global revolution, we're not all French!
In the US, many don't have the option of staying in academia with tuition so high and constantly rising. Add onto that the cost of books and the other incidentals and it's no wonder that student debt is higher than credit card debt. Our unemployed workforce is turning out to be much more educated than is needed for the few jobs available.
@5533eh Education was a very good way of warehousing young people as life expectancy increased and the baby boomers lived longer. Now the system is starting to catch up with itself. There is a lot of talk about pointless degrees; it's an easy scapegoat but has the danger of undervaluing more academic subjects. Although surf studies at Exeter Uni is bloody ridiculous. The cost of education is something I never think i will understand about the US, that and healthcare.
we had protests here in zurich too, and heaps of my friends went to protest. i am usually for making a stand, but i do not think that these protests will ACTUALLY change something about our situation, unfortunately :(
@Maryangel24 I have protested before and rarely do I think the protest itself is going to make a difference on its own. However, it is an important cog in the wheel if change ever does happen. It's important to exercise your right.
I'm graduating from uni two years from now. I took chemical engineering, hopefully I can find a big industrial company to work for as a stable career... but I'm terrified of unemployment. I'm in a coop education program and I know how awful it feels to not find a job for even one term, can't imagine not being able to find a permanent one...
@iTurnedBlue I'm an arts major and on our half of academia, with few vocational courses and less practical skills after graduation, we're terrified. What does it look like studying a Science subject?
@rhymingwithoranges I guess for us it's more like trying to get a job once. And once we're in the industry at the reasonable company, we're set for life. Just finding that one right fit is really hard and a lot of my fellow classmates are switching majors like crazy.
I'm in my last year and I will be going onto a PGCE course, next september, which will hopefully get me a job the year after, but chances are it will not, or i may not even get on the course. I am terrified.
It's a little bit weird and suprising for me to hear that British young people are told to emigrate to find a job, when a lot of people from my country see UK as a place to emigrate to just for the same reason.
@charliesgotaguitar Just out of interest, where are you from? It's interesting that you still have that view of the UK when it is presented as very doom and gloom over here.
@rhymingwithoranges Oh, I forgot to write it, I'm from Poland ;) And possibly people here interested in emigration (and not me, I'm only starting my university studies) would know that UK isn't doing so well nowadays, but I guess general thinking would be - if it's West or North from us, life is way better there ;)
I'm only a 2nd year student in uni and already people are asking about my intentions for after graduation. This is usually because I tell them getting a double degree in history and political science. Law school is generally the next step, but truthfully all I want to do is read books for the rest of my life. But that usually doesn't pay and breaking into the industry is really hard so I probably won't be able to. My point is that I feel your pain deciding, but that I'm not entirely there, yet.
@TheLunarFire Would you go to Law school? Is that something you could see yourself doing for the rest of your life. God, I sound like a careers counselor, haha! At least lawyers have to do a lot of reading.
@rhymingwithoranges I do find the law to be interesting and I do think that it applies to my field of study. But I don't think that I would ever practice. I might use a law degree to help me in a potential career in government, though, so I can't completely eliminate the option. I'm not sure that anyone really knows what it is that they want to do, though, whether they're current students or recent graduates. Most of the adults I know just sort of fell into their careers and decided to stay.
The scary thing is my brother and I are both over 16. I am not entitled to minimal wage but he (being 19) is. We both work. I work part time in a veg shop and with the lack of work my brother works in a bar cleaning dishes full time.
we are both payed 3.20
Basically he is scared to say something incase he is fired and looses his job or any chance of promotion in the future. There are so many people being used in the same way because of the lack of jobs.
@vlogtheife Your brother needs to bring this up. They are taking the mickey and they know it. If they let him go because of it, go to your MP or council. What they are doing is illegal.
I'm in the 2nd year of a law degree, and we have to apply now for our post graduate courses. I've always wanted to be a solicitor, but now I'm very reluctant to sign myself up for another course (for £10,000) just to not get a job. If I'm going to be an unemployed graduate, I would rather do it in 2013 without spending all that money... The entire situation has made me bitter and cynical. The government do need to do more; moving abroad isn't an option for me and my degree.
@rhymingwithoranges Put it this way, for the entire UK there are only 500 pupilages which is nothing compared to what it was 3 or so years ago when I went through UCAS. I'll probably end up in some clerk job which will be low-paid (in comparison to a solicitor) but our university have told us to take what we are given essentially!
I think the government needs to do the right thing and step down, after all, nobody voted for them. That's why two opposing parties had to cobble together in an effort to gain as much power as possible, instead of actually doing the democratic thing like, say, being voted for.
@skarloeyable I don't agree with the government stepping down, we did vote for them (in one way or another) and the coalition will, I believe, be good for politics and good for policy. It makes them work together to come to a conclusion that makes compromises on both sides. I don't think the fact we had a hung parliament is the issue here.
Cue giff of Jazza saying 'downstairs is where the magic happens'
The idea is stupid. It's pretty much a WORLD recession. Immigration surely won't work, since wherever you end up will have the same problems we do right?
They're protesting capitalism and all its faults I believe. I'm not sure if anyone actually knows the specifics of what they want, even the protesters. They just know something's wrong.
@OrgasmandTea haha, I'm just sick of people saying doobly-doo. Trust me, it is much easier for me to find a job in Asia than in the UK. Different regions have been affected differently. China, for example, is slowing down but still has phenomenal growth.
Inthink change in society is the wrong term. I believe clearly society has changed and we are seeing the generation of peole who want something new.I won't be even going to uni for a year or so but I am desperately trying to even fond work experience and it's not promising. We need confidence and more understand as a whole too what exactly is this tension in the job search at the moment. What long term effects happened that we can change and then hopefull prevent from occurring again.
@MostlySashaMostly it's the fashion of austerity that is creating this massive job slump. I don't believe this is the time to be cutting. But with mass media, public opinion and politics so bent on cuts, it's hard to argue.
Im a graduate of 2010 and it took me 7 months just to get a job in a coffee shop, Im now saving up for a second degree as thankfully Im a book worm who is in her prime when studying :) but will be doing it through the OU so I can still work full time and earn money. I heard a dreadfull statistic off a mate that about 2 3rds of students from 2007 till now are either unemployed or stuck working in supermarkets and take aways. does anyone know the actual stats on this?
@bluie34 I would love to have a dig around for that. If you find anything let me know. I will be making a follow up video about this: probably next week.
I just graduated from Manchester. As a Spanish national I've decided to stay in the UK and look for jobs here. I'm hoping my multilingualism would help. It's either this or do the Masters and reapply for jobs in the future. Going back is not an option. Job prospects are better here than in my home country.
@elwifofito Hey Mayuri, I'm at Manchester too! I think you made the right decision staying in the UK for the mean time. What change would it take in Spain for you to want to go back? Is it an option at all?
@rhymingwithoranges I know Jazza! I saw you outside Uni Place Cafe toilets, remember? How're you? I'm in London training to be a barrister. I'm hoping to practice here eventually. It would take a complete overhaul of the education system and the economy for me to even consider going back. Teaching is horribly outdated, and unless you don't go to a private law school, you don't even see the inside of a court room until you don't qualify after approx 7 years of theory-based 'studying' :(
@rhymingwithoranges If the Spanish youth are not taught practical skills to apply in the real world, they're not going to be prepared for professional employment. Which means fewer employees will be willing to offer jobs to the youth, causing the youth unemployment rate to go up.
I'm french so I won't be able to say about in England. But I know in France it is as difficult to find a job. Even a summer holiday job. You can't find a job even you dont have any contacts. I went to see 20 directors of midium size companies and all of them refused me but when I asked the company were a guy from my family works they took me straight on.
The best is according to me is to have part time jobs during uni, in order to make these contacts and have some experience.
@Asswiperable That itself is very hard. I too have been very lucky with connections (cousins of friends of mates of parents: that sort of thing) but it just isn't an option for most, especially if (like me) your parents are from backgrounds that are not your expertise. I'm a linguist, my dad's an electrician and my mum's a nurse.
what's weird is that english students move to other counties to find jobs, but there are also lots of students from other countries coming to the UK to find a job.
@rhymingwithoranges probably because people from other countries come to UK and don't care what kind of job they get, as long as it's a job, so they'd be ok working as a waiter for example and getting paid minimum wage, cause the minimum wage in the UK is bigger than in other countries?
P.S.: I have no idea about minimum salary in the UK, I'm just guessing here.
I'm an overseas student who's recently graduated from a London university but instead of going abroad (out of uk), im heading back in to job hunt.. am i making a bad decision?
I'm in my last year from Canada. I'm so scared to graduate this year cause I have no freaking idea how I'm going to get a job after I graduate. I have had friends graduate like 2 years ago and they are still unemployed. Even then I feel really lucky because my debt is fairly low compared to others because I was able to work throughout my degree. Even so, the real world seems like a scary place. I'm thinking of putting it off for a while and continuing with the whole education thing for a while.
I'm not all that concerned about a job after I graduate, because there's just not a lot of people who are studying to become the same as me, it nothing fancy or anything, here in Belgium we just happen to have a shortage of medical management assistents (which is what I'll be) But I know there are so many people who do worry. I think the government or at least secondry school should be more honest about job possibilities that will be opened by future studies, even if they are nonexistant
I knew there was a reason I didn't unsubscribe from your channel during that long period of absence... xD
When I graduate I don't have a choice in what I do.. I'll only be able to be a radiographer and seeing as the NHS have a shortage of healthcare professionals I don't think I'll have a problem getting a job- although it might not be where I want to go. I'd prefer to go abroad though, particularly Australia. I just moved back to England from Portugal and I'm finding life here dull :(
good to see you jazza. i kinda miss the long hair, and still my favorite video of alex's is probably the rhyming with nerimon video. haha. you look good, man.
@rhymingwithoranges i am usually a free market kinda guy. the whole situation is super complicated, but i think part of the problem is with the lowering standards of university education and the complacency of the students. if you work hard, it will pay off.
The problems also spawns from the greedy universities themselves. I'm not sure if things are different elsewhere, but at my uni in Australia, there is a severely large intake of students in my particular degree every year which is disproportionate to the amount of jobs available come graduation. I'm incredibly nervous about next year.
Universities don't care about our job prospects, they just want the money, and we're just sucked into that trap because we want to be successful. :(
@rhymingwithoranges To some extent, yes (depending on the nature of the degree though). Mind you, I think that should only happen when a lack of job opportunity arises (like now), and be relaxed when there is a time of job shortage. It's not so straight-forward in reality though.
Personally, the tough job market seems to mean that graduates need to be much more flexible when looking for work and need to look at options that might not be ideal for the moment. Until the baby boomers retire (at least in North America), it seems like it's going to be a bit of an uphill climb and we're going to need creativity and flexibility to survive.
@rhymingwithoranges Oh Palin...I think Bachman is the new Palin, but not *quite* as exciting. I wanted Trump to run too, just for some lolz. But, let's be honest, if 'Muricuh did go down the drain, that would just be another reason for me to move to England! ^__^
Okay first, I've really missed you and it's nice to see you making videos again. :D
Second, I'm very worried about getting a job once I'm out of college, but I think it's likely I'll go to grad school for hopes of a better job once I'm done. I'm striving to become a biologist and the field is super competitive. I hope I can get into research... there usually is opportunities there.
@rhymingwithoranges With expenses what they are that would surprise me. I think finding a loan or scholarship might be easier than finding a good job is all I'm saying. Part of the decision would of course rest on whether or not you had more schooling to accomplish. Tough times I admit.
@KapowVlogging Because immigrants have better grammar than you.
Also, immigrants do the rough, dirty work that people raised in suburbia refuse to do.
Being born into a life of comfort gives you the privileges that others have to work for. If you were born in Africa, or Mexico, you wouldn't be complaining around all immigrants.
Besides, chances are, your ancestors were emigrated out of their country, and immigrated into yours, long ago. Hence the whole mixed population thing.
@Lindsayface47 I can't comment on immigrants because I just moved back to England from Portugal although I have to say the situation there is very different. The English will tend to do that bar/restaurant work as opposed to the labouring jobs. I do think it's a bit disrespectful though when people move to a country and not try to learn the language. Even if they're not fluent it would be nice to be able to communicate just a little bit with them.
@rhymingwithoranges Apologies Jazza, This was my housemate logged into my account. Do you honestly believe that my grammar is that bad? :P But I would love to have words at some point. Perhaps over coffee? Yes, coffee :P x
I'm graduating from college this spring and I am definitely concerned about being able to find work. I have been trying to get basic work on campus (such as office/receptionist type work) and retail jobs off campus for months with no luck, so I'm definitely worried about the future! One of my main issues is that I'm not entirely sure what I want to do as a career which makes it difficult to know where to even start looking.
@YeahHildeKase In terms of not knowing what you want to do, is this something the government or the universities should be doing more with? There seem to be an awful lot of people our age who don't know what they want to do. Is this a new phenomenon or have young people always been like this. If it's new, what's causing it?
@rhymingwithoranges -people have more opportunity than ever before in history-everything you want to know is at your fingertips- the problem is young people have been given everything with little restrictions by parents- government- and their education- you now compete with the rest of the world- who have to work harder and be smarter-- instead of just looking for a job -do something to create jobs- some of that 1% not much older than you - you seem intelligent-stop thinking someones owes you
I went to university last september, i then dropped out in january. I am now back at university because i couldn't find a job and had no idea what else to do. Although i have found a new appretiation for being a student. Enjoy it while i can and let the future me worry about all the debt and unemployment i'll be in.
As far as changes in society, it seems that simply reevaluating will get us nowhere. Rather, we need to reevaluate and act upon those new social priorities. We need to start on the smallest scale and work up - individual, group, community, regional, national, then perhaps international. Reevaluation and action cannot be done individually though; they need to be done simultaneously and gradually so we can observe any immediate results and reevaluate as we go.
@whitewillow27 Would this require an international governing body to do this? I'm not sure if something like this would be possible. We're trying to bring about change with climate change and that is just going round in circles.
I understand that the Occupy protests (in America at least) are about more financial rights for what is called the 99%, which is a majority of the country. Basically the people of middle America are becoming upset about how the rich don't pay nearly enough taxes. If reform were to come, and the rich were to pay more taxes, that doesn't stop the average Joe from having to pay taxes as well, and I think that is the point that is getting lost in all of these protests.
@jmiggs1113 I heard that some countries have "biggest tax payers" lists instead of "rich lists" as a way of creating more prode of putting stuff towards your country. There needs to be more of this thinking.
@jmiggs1113 the real issue is that corporations and the 1% are supposed to pay a certain amount of taxes but don't actually pay them. it's not about getting them to pay more taxes, but to pay the taxes they are supposed to pay in the first place. There are SO many loop-holes and deals and corruption that these 1% use to control American industry and get out of paying any taxes, and people are recently beginning to feel the pinch more now, and only now are thinking of taking action.
My brother actually just went to England this past September to work. He's working as a teacher near Kent I believe. It was actually easier for him to get a job as a teacher there as opposed to working closer to home on the east coast of Canada.
@craigmac1989 It's funny how people seem to be coming to the UK for jobs where it's painted as hopeless for the locals. I think it might just be an inclination of people having to make decisions and sacrifices about taking jobs. Maybe Brits are just not quite there yet.
I've just started university, and I am really nervous already, since most of the people I worked with in at my part-time job in high school were just coming out of school, they made it pretty clear that a degree meant very little anymore.This all makes me feel pessimistic about the entire university experience. Is it really worth it anymore? I not really sure 100% what I want to do, but I know I want a career not just a job. But I'm not so sure a career will be an option open to me for a while.
Please don't come to Australia to work, there are so many English and Irish working here that Australian's can't find work. I speak from a wealth of experience. We love you but please go home.
I think it's time we all started to accept that the Western world is on an inevitable downward spiral economically and socially. We'll still have pockets of wealth, and niches of cutting edge research, but for the mainstream populace life will gradually decline. Empires rise and fall. Hey ho. Time for Britain to reassess it's place in the world. Our generation has to reassess how we're going to survive within it. And we can no longer rely on the cardboard cut-out politicians to lead us.
@rhymingwithoranges Should be? Will be? Who knows. We are going to be left behind as an economic power. The banks will collapse, we won't have enough money. The BRIC nations will become leaders owing to their economic power. We need to look to securing our own sustainability, our survival. Produce more food and other essentials such as clothing. We won't be able to rely on imports forever, because we won't be able to afford it! This isn't coming from nationalism btw - I'm a global lefty.
I graduated this year and the only reason I felt 'safe' was because I made sure I had done enough work experience each holiday to get a job straight after I left uni! What's happening now scares me more though. I'm pro Occupy Wall Street and do believe some issues need to be addressed. Want to know your take on it for sure.
1. Jobs for young people: Maybe a mandatory quota for all firms with > 50 employees?
2. The banks. Break them up into smaller (manageable) elements and separate out the risk-taking elements. Apply a transaction tax to the latter (to fund clearing up the huge mess they've made. Where else should the money come from?).
3. "Changes in society". We need more direct democracy - a mix of direct and representative, not just (as now) representative.
I don't have an overarching idea for how to fix things, but all the time I notice little things that could help a lot. For instance, a few years ago in Louisiana the sanitation department replaced workers with machines. It cost the state money to cross over to the new system, it inconvenienced the citizens who had to buy new bins, it turned the old bins into waste, and it put people out of jobs. I couldn't understand it. I wonder (provided this was possible) if it's too late to switch back.
Every piece of legislation which involves a fine/penalty of somesort is social engineering, precipitating change in society - We rationalise through questionning "why?".
I've just started my final year and I have been applying for jobs and I'm hoping my Chemistry degree, and year in industry, will help make me more employable, then say, a geography or English degree. Heading to the careers fair this week in Manchester to help me work out what I want to do, as I don't really know currently :S I plan to just keep applying and trying to get jobs. Happy to do more internships if need be before I find a full time fully paid job.
I'm in the U.S., and I'm definitely worried about finding work after I graduate in a little over a year from now. I think I may stay within the bubble of education you mentioned, just to give myself something to do while the economy picks back up. I hope it does so by the time I finish, though.
I'm in my second year of university in the US, thats after taking 2 years off to travel and changing my major, so I'm not going to graduate for a while, but I worry about the education system here. I've actually considered transferring to a university in Europe, because they don't throw all their money at the football team and seem to care about the education. I had more than one teacher here that instead of lecturing, taught the answers to the test only. It was hard to learn in those classes.
I'm not at all racist but when I hear about all the unemployment over here I can't help but feel a bit twitchy about all the immigrants we have in work or on the dole and almost get a bit protective of our country, I think the suggestion that us brits do the same and leave the country is almost just like pushing the problem elsewhere...
Uuuuuugh, I feel you on the essay business, Jazza ...
I'm in my last year, too, so ... I'm kinda looking around, too, namely for possible graduate schools or just jobs. But then again, I'm in the US and all. I'm sure I'll find something and figure something out.
Reduction from 5 to 4 1/2 day workweeks in big companies would sort this out. An extra job is created for every 9 employees this effects. Downside is this reduces the amount of money those in a job make as they'd work less hours, however I'd rather have 10 million people employed earning 90 arbitrary units a week, than 9 million employed earning 100 arbitrary units a week and a million unemployed.
I'm sure there's a complicated reason we can't do this, but it SEEMS like a good idea.
Also,my masters in definitely has to be something like Economics/International Relations as much as I love Linguistics.It is hard getting over the fact that you can't do exactly what you want to but the reality is that we have to adjust and any life transitions are obviously hard-whether graduation or moving abroad -after 3 years of being cut off from Poland totally ,going back is going to be a bit painful in some ways,you must have experienced this too-living in China for a while...
I'm currently in my second year of university in the US, and I think the government should not have the responsibility of finding us a job after graduation. Should we also leave it to them to pick a house? a car? I don't want anybody telling me where to work and for whom. That 's a personal decision. If someone wants to find a good job, then they should study something that you know you're going to make good money at. (like law or engineering or medicine).
The economic situation there is not great but it seems like I am much more likely to find a good job in Poland,especially with a British degree,I am still gutted about going back as I love the UK and would have loved to stay here for longer...Good to see you back!
I am a third year student of Linguistics in England and I am originally from Poland and if you had asked me two years ago about my future plans I would have said that I was definitely going to stay in the UK after graduation ,However,the tuition fees increase was something that I did not expect so the decision to go back to Poland was kind of made for me....
Next year I will be going to become a student nurse... the NHS wont pay for my student fees anymore and I will only earn £200 a week in gross income. I will be in the most stressful profession and put my own self in danger to help people.
If I can help people thats great. But the NHS is now taking radical changes that are killing people...
This country is going to hell... I feel more sorry for my future patients than myself to be honest.
As for the Occupy protests, they're well-meaning, but also a little misguided. Their goals are too nebulous and their protests too disorganized (& sometimes counterproductive--ie zombie day?). It impugns their credibility. Also, it's the government that writes the rules that corporations & banks benefit by. Their protests should be more pointed in that direction. If you want banks to have less power over you, take your money out of them. If you want politicians to know what you want, TELL THEM.
You will be SO much happier in the University world. Come to the US - we'd love to have you. And you can always teach English in Thailand. You would love it there. There is a huge Brit presence there.
@revron77 He will have a Doctorate which, so long as its from a respectable source, is highly regarded. Some can teach with a Masters - depends on the subject and the institution. But since he is fluent in multiple languages and has lived in China, he would be a good candidate at multiple high-quality institutions. It really depends on the University from which the degree was obtained. Respect goes with better schools.
All I am saying is the US at this current time is a bad investment and that so called "American dream" is gone. To spend time on moving to the US could be a big waste of money. And lets face it... the education bubble in the US has started and it will pop. When that happens a lot of Americans wont have a future.
If I had a choice between my nation and the US I would pick my nation anyday.
I think the Occupy movement is a vocal majority of people who feel the current social-economic situation is inherantly unfair and unsustainable. Unbridled capitalism will if left unchanged irrepairably damage the planet and our civilization and threaten the long term survival of our specsis.
Being in my 3rd yr of school, I'm very concerned about what will come after school. I'm going to graduate school but the concern is that, since we live in this "bad" economy, it will be very hard finding a job. And there's a lot of negative talk with English majors(which I am)w/ people implying my basic option is teaching. I wish my school/gov would provide more ideas in terms of what are my other options & to provide me a realistic idea of what will happen after school in terms of job finding.
Its so good to see you back on You Tube. I've got another two years of higher education left as I'm studying drama Ive already got low enough job prospects as it is but in two years things can change. The econamy, my situation etc although that being said I feel for the people who are graduating now. Its going to be very tough for them. As for the Occupy movements, the practicalities of their demands is not chiefly what I think concerns them. They just want the status quo to change.
I'm long past my final year. :-/ But I encountered a bad job environment when I graduated, & have encountered several others since then; they're cyclical. "They" used to call my fellow Gen X'ers slackers for not being able to find work, the same way "they" call the present generation slackers. Pretty much gone are the days where you got a job that you have your whole life. Stability used to bring survival; now it's adaptability. You have to be flexible in your dreams without dashing your spirit.
I'm terrified about getting a job at the end of this year. Its so lovely to see your face again! Also you're in manch so you are not too far away from me, we should have coffee!
The government could/should stop wasting money on many things that are seen as 'necessary' which really aren't, and put/plough money into creating new job opportunities within the UK for young people and the unemployed in general. It seems that priorities are incredibly scrambled at No.10
Last year I moved from Spain to Italy for an internship and then they employed me. I know I'm lucky just for having a job, but, really? Having to move abroad and live away from all my family and friends?
I feel that maybe these protests could be taken a bit more seriously, and have a more plausible outcome, if people tried to be more organized about it. I understand how the world sometimes has the drive to violently express themselves, and how people think it'll make a huge change if they get beaten with billyclubs. Honestly, things like storming the streets get attention and media coverage, but what will come of it...? Many people aren't even on the same page as to what changes they want.
I am in Canada and in my fourth year of university (final year). I am currently applying to teacher's college, postgraduate programs at the college level, and a social work post-grad degree. There is no way with my Bachelor of Arts in Psychology will I be able to get a full time job and so I have to specialize in something. I hope that after specializing I can get a job but that is just wishful thinking.
Stay in education and get an internship, there are so few jobs out there that can support us.... A LSE geography grad 2:1 trying to get a job is trickkkkkky, I've been on a paid 4 month work placement but there is no chance of a job with them. They need to make businesses want to train us which businesses don't want to spend money on, cus lots of jobs want 2 years experience... etc. It's really hard to get on the job ladder. I shall make you a video response :)
The Occupy Wall Street can be seen as a form of Counter-Hegemony (or Resistance) to the Hegemonic State. The hegemonic state doesn't necessarily mean the United States government but from what I have learned it is the against the economic status quo being 1% of the United States population has control of approximately 25% of the country's GDP.
I graduate in December and I'm not sure whether to continue school or look for a real job, either... I definitely want to take a year of from school though. I'm in the US, though, so I can't relate... I'm not sure the US government is doing anything to help us young people. It freaks me out because I have two friends who graduated back in May and still haven't found work. They don't have any work experience though, while I do, so that only makes me somewhat hopeful that I will be more lucky
I'm quietly confident I will find a job in my chosen field of law, but we have a privileged position in that we have particular jobs only we can do. Failing which I don't really know I'm pretty willing to do anything.
The multi-agenda madness of the Occupy protests and others leads me to believe they're more about anger with the current system than any real belief theres a better way. It's like the blackberry; there may not be a better answer but you still be angry when the current one crashes!
The government are never making gettting easier i mean you have to do 2 tests: maths and litteratacy in order to even get into a 2 day course for a food certificate i mean what the hell?. Plus they have told the job centre to stop helping us look for work now and send us to these silly "work programme" things even when they are a bunch of a waste of time because they cant do any better than we can. There IS no work! so it's like completely and utter frustration when...
@emmabee11 they keep saying "Well you need a job" argh! there is non you silly and ignorant people like i've applied at all 3 subways close by to me 3 times, no answer, i've applied at every café in town, no answer, applied at new look, game, in a takeaway no answer, it's like were just completely getting ignored. I cant work at all and it's so frustrating when people keep assuming i'm not trying hard enough, all i can do is apply but like nothing :(. The government are only making it harder.
@emmabee11 Oh and i cant go back to college ether due the government making college funds unjustly too high for even anyone on job seekers and they are doing nothing whatsoever to make jobs for us, they are just letting us lye in all this stress and frustration while the "primeminister" talks out of his bum all the time lol, they just take from us and never give anything back, all they do is make things more complicated for everybody and it's just not right any more.
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We have the capability and the technology to make an abundance of everything we 'need' without everyone working a full time 'job'.....it isn't jobs that we want.....it's access to what we 'need' without having to earn 'money'. Learn about the Resource Based Economy being advocated by the Zeitgeist movement and the Venus Project. In that system everyone would only have to be willing to 'voluntarily' work for just a few hours a week to have absolutely everything they need.
peterjol 1 month ago
I'm in my third year of uni and currently enjoying that 'fuck what am I going to do next' panic, exacerbated by news of friends who have just graduated. Some are doing fantastically well, landing one fortuitous circumstance after another, while others struggled enormously to find work stacking shelves as were turned down for being "overqualified". Maybe the government could try to tackle the age-old catch 22 of 'you can't get the job without experience, can't get experience without experience'?
aaaaaaaaaargh 3 months ago
Many people I went to school with, mostly those who did not complete doctoral programs therefore cannot get certification so easily in the States, have gone to Taiwan, Japan, etc and teach English, art, etc in ENGLISH-speaking classes... those nations focus on VERY young (preschool up) English teaching, but few adults there are bilingual so they simply let kids adapt to teachers who can't speak the local language!
As for #occupy, here, we're speaking with local gov'ts first. It's long-overdue.
122172639 3 months ago
Jazza come stai? spero tutto bene! Posso commentare in italiano? Ho deciso che seguiro' attivamente questo canale da ora in poi. Google translator can help you to understand if your italian got worse.. ;-)
Btw riots in Rome were mainly caused by some moles. the government needs an enemy <-- crisis building to create consensus. But this argument needs a real long long discussion! hope you're good and see you soon!
francescodelzompo 4 months ago
Thank you for coming back to youtube and making my brain work :)
cooldudet15 4 months ago
If you build it they will come. There need to be the wealthy building cities. It is not a problem of a lack of resources, it is a problem of stagnant money. If we allow the wealthy to be wealthy, they need to contribute to the flow of money; however, the same could be said for non-workers around the world. I am not saying exploit them; however, welfare was never meant to be a career. There should be a symbiosis. Disparities in classes lead to a depression or a revolution. Both r being tempered
tbt732ttt 4 months ago
I've been looking for work for a while now. Slightly soul-destroying. It's that old conundrum: it's hard to get a job without experience, but you can't get experience without a job. I'm currently looking to having to work for free (via volunteering and such).
DratVanity 4 months ago
@DratVanity Volunteering is good. You might get some ideas, experiences, and training that can land you a job. However, don't dedicate yourself to volunteering too much. Remain focused on the job search.
jteruel671 3 months ago
I got the first job for which I applied, about 2 months after I graduated. It was a temporary contract, but I got an extension. God willing I'll keep getting extensions and not have to worry about job-seeking.
Oct23rd4004BC 4 months ago
Greetings from San Francisco! Anyhow, the economy is very suckish nowadays. My eldest brother is on his 3rd year of college and his major is art. He's very talented with what he does but, there's not much of a future for artists. He was considering something more "useful" that could help contribute to society other than art.
Ailacake 4 months ago
@JulieInTransit I LOVE my demographic! I definately get the best ones.
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
Seeing as me graduating would be a good few years from now seeing as I've literally just started my first A-Level year. I'm not sure if it's going to get worse, but it probably will do.
Chances are I'll be looking to go abroad to work in languages or something similar, it does seem like the best option for me but like I said, it could change when it comes to my time.. I'm also doing a variety of subjects and maybe languages to increase my choices and opportunities of actually finding some work..
Mickz963 4 months ago
I don't like to think about getting a job post-uni at the moment. I think there are just going to be less and less opportunities with everything being privatised by the government. I don't think the conservatives are trying in the slightest to improve the situation, for anyone, well apart from a tiny percentage of society made up of the upper class.
I think there is a little bit of 'message' lacking in the occupy campaign but I do think it shows how angry people are.
ItsJeanHere 4 months ago
@ItsJeanHere If you think the Conservatives are just trying to keep their buddies in the black do you think the Lib Dems are doing well at holding them back as they claim? I agree that there seems to be a lack of message; there is a protest in the centre of manchester and they just seem to be sitting in tents and telling people to join them...
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
@rhymingwithoranges I don't honestly think the Lib Dems are doing anything. I think if they are holding back the conservatives then I don't want to consider what else they could be doing to target the working class. But I'm just a big lefty. Alot of people have said that they don't quite understand the point of the occupations. I gather it is to do with the majority of money being held by a minority but I'm not exactly sure how clear their campaign is, there are clearer causes that need support.
ItsJeanHere 4 months ago
I'm out of education now, but I can't get hired by anyone because I'm disabled. I was actually fired for my disability from my previous job, and I haven't been able to find work since and it's hard. I can't pull in on disability benefits because I don't have a primary doctor. I don't have a primary doctor because I don't have insurance. and I don't have insurance because I don't have a job.
It sucks and personally, I'm very worried about my future as far as financial stability.
xmaranduh 4 months ago
@xmaranduh Crap, I am assuming you are American. Is there not anything against discriminatory firing in your state's laws? If not write to the equivalent of your council (not sure what it would be there). If that doesn't work write to the equivalent of your MP (maybe a mayor or someone similar) and if that fails write to the press. Good luck!
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
@rhymingwithoranges I am, indeed. And while there are laws against actively firing someone on discriminatory grounds, there are no laws against firing someone based on exaggerated claims of incompetence. I've seen people fired for being "distracting and inappropriate at work" which is code for "they were gay". It's a horrible thing and I really wouldn't know where to start if I were to write someone being that it's my word against there's. PS: Thank you for taking time to reply to me~
xmaranduh 3 months ago
Hi there, Jazza. The economy sucks. No doubt about it. And it's really sad that the feeling is that many UKers should emigrate in order to find work. That's great that you took it upon yourself to learn a skill (other languages like Chinese) in order to make it easier to find a job. Others need to do the same. Regarding protests, I agree that wealth is way too concentrated in so few hands in many countries, so I support that. But these problems are very complex.
studentdotcom 4 months ago
@studentdotcom I got lucky with Chinese, it just happened to be the thing I loved doing and a massive comodity down the line. I agree that the whole structure of society is far too complex - it's not something that is going to change over night; we can't have a global revolution, we're not all French!
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
In the US, many don't have the option of staying in academia with tuition so high and constantly rising. Add onto that the cost of books and the other incidentals and it's no wonder that student debt is higher than credit card debt. Our unemployed workforce is turning out to be much more educated than is needed for the few jobs available.
5533eh 4 months ago
@5533eh Education was a very good way of warehousing young people as life expectancy increased and the baby boomers lived longer. Now the system is starting to catch up with itself. There is a lot of talk about pointless degrees; it's an easy scapegoat but has the danger of undervaluing more academic subjects. Although surf studies at Exeter Uni is bloody ridiculous. The cost of education is something I never think i will understand about the US, that and healthcare.
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
we had protests here in zurich too, and heaps of my friends went to protest. i am usually for making a stand, but i do not think that these protests will ACTUALLY change something about our situation, unfortunately :(
Maryangel24 4 months ago
@Maryangel24 I have protested before and rarely do I think the protest itself is going to make a difference on its own. However, it is an important cog in the wheel if change ever does happen. It's important to exercise your right.
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
I'm graduating from uni two years from now. I took chemical engineering, hopefully I can find a big industrial company to work for as a stable career... but I'm terrified of unemployment. I'm in a coop education program and I know how awful it feels to not find a job for even one term, can't imagine not being able to find a permanent one...
iTurnedBlue 4 months ago
@iTurnedBlue I'm an arts major and on our half of academia, with few vocational courses and less practical skills after graduation, we're terrified. What does it look like studying a Science subject?
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@rhymingwithoranges I guess for us it's more like trying to get a job once. And once we're in the industry at the reasonable company, we're set for life. Just finding that one right fit is really hard and a lot of my fellow classmates are switching majors like crazy.
iTurnedBlue 3 months ago
I'm in my last year and I will be going onto a PGCE course, next september, which will hopefully get me a job the year after, but chances are it will not, or i may not even get on the course. I am terrified.
cazxpenguin 4 months ago
@cazxpenguin Hey Caz! Good to hear from you. I'm sure you'll be fine. Good luck this year!
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
It's a little bit weird and suprising for me to hear that British young people are told to emigrate to find a job, when a lot of people from my country see UK as a place to emigrate to just for the same reason.
charliesgotaguitar 4 months ago
@charliesgotaguitar Just out of interest, where are you from? It's interesting that you still have that view of the UK when it is presented as very doom and gloom over here.
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
@rhymingwithoranges Oh, I forgot to write it, I'm from Poland ;) And possibly people here interested in emigration (and not me, I'm only starting my university studies) would know that UK isn't doing so well nowadays, but I guess general thinking would be - if it's West or North from us, life is way better there ;)
charliesgotaguitar 4 months ago
I'm only a 2nd year student in uni and already people are asking about my intentions for after graduation. This is usually because I tell them getting a double degree in history and political science. Law school is generally the next step, but truthfully all I want to do is read books for the rest of my life. But that usually doesn't pay and breaking into the industry is really hard so I probably won't be able to. My point is that I feel your pain deciding, but that I'm not entirely there, yet.
TheLunarFire 4 months ago
@TheLunarFire Would you go to Law school? Is that something you could see yourself doing for the rest of your life. God, I sound like a careers counselor, haha! At least lawyers have to do a lot of reading.
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
@rhymingwithoranges I do find the law to be interesting and I do think that it applies to my field of study. But I don't think that I would ever practice. I might use a law degree to help me in a potential career in government, though, so I can't completely eliminate the option. I'm not sure that anyone really knows what it is that they want to do, though, whether they're current students or recent graduates. Most of the adults I know just sort of fell into their careers and decided to stay.
TheLunarFire 4 months ago
I'm 18 with decent A Levels and just got a job in McDonalds. The joke is I'm one of the lucky ones.
missbovered3000 4 months ago
@missbovered3000 Is Maccy Ds a temporary thing or are you going to continue studying?
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
The scary thing is my brother and I are both over 16. I am not entitled to minimal wage but he (being 19) is. We both work. I work part time in a veg shop and with the lack of work my brother works in a bar cleaning dishes full time.
we are both payed 3.20
Basically he is scared to say something incase he is fired and looses his job or any chance of promotion in the future. There are so many people being used in the same way because of the lack of jobs.
vlogtheife 4 months ago
@vlogtheife Your brother needs to bring this up. They are taking the mickey and they know it. If they let him go because of it, go to your MP or council. What they are doing is illegal.
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
I'm in the 2nd year of a law degree, and we have to apply now for our post graduate courses. I've always wanted to be a solicitor, but now I'm very reluctant to sign myself up for another course (for £10,000) just to not get a job. If I'm going to be an unemployed graduate, I would rather do it in 2013 without spending all that money... The entire situation has made me bitter and cynical. The government do need to do more; moving abroad isn't an option for me and my degree.
Mitya91 4 months ago
@Mitya91 If not soliciting then where? Is it even bad in vocational courses like Law?
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
@rhymingwithoranges Put it this way, for the entire UK there are only 500 pupilages which is nothing compared to what it was 3 or so years ago when I went through UCAS. I'll probably end up in some clerk job which will be low-paid (in comparison to a solicitor) but our university have told us to take what we are given essentially!
Mitya91 3 months ago
I think the government needs to do the right thing and step down, after all, nobody voted for them. That's why two opposing parties had to cobble together in an effort to gain as much power as possible, instead of actually doing the democratic thing like, say, being voted for.
skarloeyable 4 months ago
@skarloeyable I don't agree with the government stepping down, we did vote for them (in one way or another) and the coalition will, I believe, be good for politics and good for policy. It makes them work together to come to a conclusion that makes compromises on both sides. I don't think the fact we had a hung parliament is the issue here.
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
Cue giff of Jazza saying 'downstairs is where the magic happens'
The idea is stupid. It's pretty much a WORLD recession. Immigration surely won't work, since wherever you end up will have the same problems we do right?
They're protesting capitalism and all its faults I believe. I'm not sure if anyone actually knows the specifics of what they want, even the protesters. They just know something's wrong.
PS great to have you back =D
OrgasmandTea 4 months ago
@OrgasmandTea you have the best username EVER!
BeyondSurfaceTension 4 months ago
@OrgasmandTea haha, I'm just sick of people saying doobly-doo. Trust me, it is much easier for me to find a job in Asia than in the UK. Different regions have been affected differently. China, for example, is slowing down but still has phenomenal growth.
It's good to be back :)
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
Inthink change in society is the wrong term. I believe clearly society has changed and we are seeing the generation of peole who want something new.I won't be even going to uni for a year or so but I am desperately trying to even fond work experience and it's not promising. We need confidence and more understand as a whole too what exactly is this tension in the job search at the moment. What long term effects happened that we can change and then hopefull prevent from occurring again.
MostlySashaMostly 4 months ago
@MostlySashaMostly it's the fashion of austerity that is creating this massive job slump. I don't believe this is the time to be cutting. But with mass media, public opinion and politics so bent on cuts, it's hard to argue.
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
Im a graduate of 2010 and it took me 7 months just to get a job in a coffee shop, Im now saving up for a second degree as thankfully Im a book worm who is in her prime when studying :) but will be doing it through the OU so I can still work full time and earn money. I heard a dreadfull statistic off a mate that about 2 3rds of students from 2007 till now are either unemployed or stuck working in supermarkets and take aways. does anyone know the actual stats on this?
bluie34 4 months ago
@bluie34 I would love to have a dig around for that. If you find anything let me know. I will be making a follow up video about this: probably next week.
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
@rhymingwithoranges awesome i look forward to it and will message u if i find any stats x
bluie34 4 months ago
I just graduated from Manchester. As a Spanish national I've decided to stay in the UK and look for jobs here. I'm hoping my multilingualism would help. It's either this or do the Masters and reapply for jobs in the future. Going back is not an option. Job prospects are better here than in my home country.
- Mayuri
elwifofito 4 months ago
@elwifofito Hey Mayuri, I'm at Manchester too! I think you made the right decision staying in the UK for the mean time. What change would it take in Spain for you to want to go back? Is it an option at all?
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
@rhymingwithoranges I know Jazza! I saw you outside Uni Place Cafe toilets, remember? How're you? I'm in London training to be a barrister. I'm hoping to practice here eventually. It would take a complete overhaul of the education system and the economy for me to even consider going back. Teaching is horribly outdated, and unless you don't go to a private law school, you don't even see the inside of a court room until you don't qualify after approx 7 years of theory-based 'studying' :(
elwifofito 4 months ago
@rhymingwithoranges If the Spanish youth are not taught practical skills to apply in the real world, they're not going to be prepared for professional employment. Which means fewer employees will be willing to offer jobs to the youth, causing the youth unemployment rate to go up.
elwifofito 4 months ago
I'm french so I won't be able to say about in England. But I know in France it is as difficult to find a job. Even a summer holiday job. You can't find a job even you dont have any contacts. I went to see 20 directors of midium size companies and all of them refused me but when I asked the company were a guy from my family works they took me straight on.
The best is according to me is to have part time jobs during uni, in order to make these contacts and have some experience.
Asswiperable 4 months ago
@Asswiperable That itself is very hard. I too have been very lucky with connections (cousins of friends of mates of parents: that sort of thing) but it just isn't an option for most, especially if (like me) your parents are from backgrounds that are not your expertise. I'm a linguist, my dad's an electrician and my mum's a nurse.
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
what's weird is that english students move to other counties to find jobs, but there are also lots of students from other countries coming to the UK to find a job.
Hellen813 4 months ago
@Hellen813 That's true. How does this happen?
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
@rhymingwithoranges probably because people from other countries come to UK and don't care what kind of job they get, as long as it's a job, so they'd be ok working as a waiter for example and getting paid minimum wage, cause the minimum wage in the UK is bigger than in other countries?
P.S.: I have no idea about minimum salary in the UK, I'm just guessing here.
Hellen813 4 months ago
I'm an overseas student who's recently graduated from a London university but instead of going abroad (out of uk), im heading back in to job hunt.. am i making a bad decision?
starrynite90 4 months ago
@starrynite90 Let me know how it goes.
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
If I manage to find the time I may actually do a video response.
nenalyzed 4 months ago
@nenalyzed Please do! I really want to do a follow up video on this because of the responses. It would be great to hear your opinion.
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
What to do? Move to Australia. More specifically, into the spare room next to me. Yes? Good.
Seamalicous 4 months ago
@Seamalicous Haha, Seamus. How the hell are you? You old yet? Kicked Gillard out of office yet? Message me mate.
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
@rhymingwithoranges I'm really good, next time you're on skype fire me a message :)
Seamalicous 4 months ago
I'm in my last year from Canada. I'm so scared to graduate this year cause I have no freaking idea how I'm going to get a job after I graduate. I have had friends graduate like 2 years ago and they are still unemployed. Even then I feel really lucky because my debt is fairly low compared to others because I was able to work throughout my degree. Even so, the real world seems like a scary place. I'm thinking of putting it off for a while and continuing with the whole education thing for a while.
ihaverice2006 4 months ago
@ihaverice2006 At what point would you decide to bite the bullet and go out job hunting? What conditions are you waiting for?
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
I'm not all that concerned about a job after I graduate, because there's just not a lot of people who are studying to become the same as me, it nothing fancy or anything, here in Belgium we just happen to have a shortage of medical management assistents (which is what I'll be) But I know there are so many people who do worry. I think the government or at least secondry school should be more honest about job possibilities that will be opened by future studies, even if they are nonexistant
WilleOfNie 4 months ago
@WilleOfNie Do you think governments have played up the value of education too much?
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
@rhymingwithoranges I'm sending a message as a reply to this because of space shortage in this box ...
WilleOfNie 4 months ago
I knew there was a reason I didn't unsubscribe from your channel during that long period of absence... xD
When I graduate I don't have a choice in what I do.. I'll only be able to be a radiographer and seeing as the NHS have a shortage of healthcare professionals I don't think I'll have a problem getting a job- although it might not be where I want to go. I'd prefer to go abroad though, particularly Australia. I just moved back to England from Portugal and I'm finding life here dull :(
welshchick1993 4 months ago
@welshchick1993 Thanks for not unsubbing. Is there anything other than dullness that makes you not want to stay?
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
@rhymingwithoranges The weather I think mostly... And I just like being away from everything... I like fresh starts every now and again :)
welshchick1993 4 months ago
good to see you jazza. i kinda miss the long hair, and still my favorite video of alex's is probably the rhyming with nerimon video. haha. you look good, man.
alacruz 4 months ago
@alacruz Thanks. I don't miss the long hair, haha. You got any views on the video?
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
@rhymingwithoranges i am usually a free market kinda guy. the whole situation is super complicated, but i think part of the problem is with the lowering standards of university education and the complacency of the students. if you work hard, it will pay off.
alacruz 4 months ago
The problems also spawns from the greedy universities themselves. I'm not sure if things are different elsewhere, but at my uni in Australia, there is a severely large intake of students in my particular degree every year which is disproportionate to the amount of jobs available come graduation. I'm incredibly nervous about next year.
Universities don't care about our job prospects, they just want the money, and we're just sucked into that trap because we want to be successful. :(
thilosaurus 4 months ago
@thilosaurus Interesting take on it. Do you think there should be a cap on university intake proportionate to job prospects?
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
@rhymingwithoranges To some extent, yes (depending on the nature of the degree though). Mind you, I think that should only happen when a lack of job opportunity arises (like now), and be relaxed when there is a time of job shortage. It's not so straight-forward in reality though.
thilosaurus 4 months ago
Personally, the tough job market seems to mean that graduates need to be much more flexible when looking for work and need to look at options that might not be ideal for the moment. Until the baby boomers retire (at least in North America), it seems like it's going to be a bit of an uphill climb and we're going to need creativity and flexibility to survive.
rivroak 4 months ago
@rivroak How can our generation compete with the baby boomers?
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
I like how the advertisement prior to the video was for Obama's 2012 campaign in which he discusses job creation. Woo. EXCITING.
sophiaathina 4 months ago
@sophiaathina Obama 2012! Although part of me does want Palin to run and win just to see the world drain down the plug hole... just me? :P
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
@rhymingwithoranges Oh Palin...I think Bachman is the new Palin, but not *quite* as exciting. I wanted Trump to run too, just for some lolz. But, let's be honest, if 'Muricuh did go down the drain, that would just be another reason for me to move to England! ^__^
sophiaathina 4 months ago
Okay first, I've really missed you and it's nice to see you making videos again. :D
Second, I'm very worried about getting a job once I'm out of college, but I think it's likely I'll go to grad school for hopes of a better job once I'm done. I'm striving to become a biologist and the field is super competitive. I hope I can get into research... there usually is opportunities there.
Heartze 4 months ago
@Heartze Thanks, it's good to be back, despite being in a little box with black boarders. I wish you all the best of luck!
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
Stay in school. The work market is horrible right now.
johnetie 4 months ago
@johnetie What if you can't afford school?
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
@rhymingwithoranges With expenses what they are that would surprise me. I think finding a loan or scholarship might be easier than finding a good job is all I'm saying. Part of the decision would of course rest on whether or not you had more schooling to accomplish. Tough times I admit.
johnetie 4 months ago
why dont the goverment stop letting imergrants into our country so we dont have to leave to get work!!!!!
KapowVlogging 4 months ago
@KapowVlogging Because immigrants have better grammar than you.
Also, immigrants do the rough, dirty work that people raised in suburbia refuse to do.
Being born into a life of comfort gives you the privileges that others have to work for. If you were born in Africa, or Mexico, you wouldn't be complaining around all immigrants.
Besides, chances are, your ancestors were emigrated out of their country, and immigrated into yours, long ago. Hence the whole mixed population thing.
Lindsayface47 4 months ago
@Lindsayface47 I can't comment on immigrants because I just moved back to England from Portugal although I have to say the situation there is very different. The English will tend to do that bar/restaurant work as opposed to the labouring jobs. I do think it's a bit disrespectful though when people move to a country and not try to learn the language. Even if they're not fluent it would be nice to be able to communicate just a little bit with them.
welshchick1993 4 months ago
@KapowVlogging Am I going to have to have words with you young man?
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
@rhymingwithoranges Apologies Jazza, This was my housemate logged into my account. Do you honestly believe that my grammar is that bad? :P But I would love to have words at some point. Perhaps over coffee? Yes, coffee :P x
KapowVlogging 4 months ago
I'm graduating from college this spring and I am definitely concerned about being able to find work. I have been trying to get basic work on campus (such as office/receptionist type work) and retail jobs off campus for months with no luck, so I'm definitely worried about the future! One of my main issues is that I'm not entirely sure what I want to do as a career which makes it difficult to know where to even start looking.
YeahHildeKase 4 months ago
@YeahHildeKase In terms of not knowing what you want to do, is this something the government or the universities should be doing more with? There seem to be an awful lot of people our age who don't know what they want to do. Is this a new phenomenon or have young people always been like this. If it's new, what's causing it?
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
@rhymingwithoranges -people have more opportunity than ever before in history-everything you want to know is at your fingertips- the problem is young people have been given everything with little restrictions by parents- government- and their education- you now compete with the rest of the world- who have to work harder and be smarter-- instead of just looking for a job -do something to create jobs- some of that 1% not much older than you - you seem intelligent-stop thinking someones owes you
z2u 3 months ago
I went to university last september, i then dropped out in january. I am now back at university because i couldn't find a job and had no idea what else to do. Although i have found a new appretiation for being a student. Enjoy it while i can and let the future me worry about all the debt and unemployment i'll be in.
fatboyrocker 4 months ago
@fatboyrocker I feel really sorry for future me...
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
As far as changes in society, it seems that simply reevaluating will get us nowhere. Rather, we need to reevaluate and act upon those new social priorities. We need to start on the smallest scale and work up - individual, group, community, regional, national, then perhaps international. Reevaluation and action cannot be done individually though; they need to be done simultaneously and gradually so we can observe any immediate results and reevaluate as we go.
whitewillow27 4 months ago
@whitewillow27 Would this require an international governing body to do this? I'm not sure if something like this would be possible. We're trying to bring about change with climate change and that is just going round in circles.
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
I understand that the Occupy protests (in America at least) are about more financial rights for what is called the 99%, which is a majority of the country. Basically the people of middle America are becoming upset about how the rich don't pay nearly enough taxes. If reform were to come, and the rich were to pay more taxes, that doesn't stop the average Joe from having to pay taxes as well, and I think that is the point that is getting lost in all of these protests.
jmiggs1113 4 months ago
@jmiggs1113 I heard that some countries have "biggest tax payers" lists instead of "rich lists" as a way of creating more prode of putting stuff towards your country. There needs to be more of this thinking.
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
@jmiggs1113 the real issue is that corporations and the 1% are supposed to pay a certain amount of taxes but don't actually pay them. it's not about getting them to pay more taxes, but to pay the taxes they are supposed to pay in the first place. There are SO many loop-holes and deals and corruption that these 1% use to control American industry and get out of paying any taxes, and people are recently beginning to feel the pinch more now, and only now are thinking of taking action.
thesuperfe 4 months ago
My brother actually just went to England this past September to work. He's working as a teacher near Kent I believe. It was actually easier for him to get a job as a teacher there as opposed to working closer to home on the east coast of Canada.
craigmac1989 4 months ago
@craigmac1989 It's funny how people seem to be coming to the UK for jobs where it's painted as hopeless for the locals. I think it might just be an inclination of people having to make decisions and sacrifices about taking jobs. Maybe Brits are just not quite there yet.
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
Well I've just started my first year and money is a real problem for me now... who knows what it's going to be like after... :(
LightAndShapes 4 months ago
@LightAndShapes fingers crossed.
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
I've just started university, and I am really nervous already, since most of the people I worked with in at my part-time job in high school were just coming out of school, they made it pretty clear that a degree meant very little anymore.This all makes me feel pessimistic about the entire university experience. Is it really worth it anymore? I not really sure 100% what I want to do, but I know I want a career not just a job. But I'm not so sure a career will be an option open to me for a while.
MsDanish19 4 months ago
Im in my first year :) of university in huddersfield
i have sandwhich course when you have help and u try get placement job in 4 year to go to broad ro not ... but ive heard very hard .
wolfgirl167Jess 4 months ago
Please don't come to Australia to work, there are so many English and Irish working here that Australian's can't find work. I speak from a wealth of experience. We love you but please go home.
coollikeyodais 4 months ago
@coollikeyodais I apologise for my countrymen. Although, to be fair, there are a lot of your lot here as well...
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
@rhymingwithoranges maybe we could have a settler swap? (Sorry about rant) it's the Governments fault for allowing companies tax breaks for doing it.
I'm glad to see you back by the way.
coollikeyodais 4 months ago
I think it's time we all started to accept that the Western world is on an inevitable downward spiral economically and socially. We'll still have pockets of wealth, and niches of cutting edge research, but for the mainstream populace life will gradually decline. Empires rise and fall. Hey ho. Time for Britain to reassess it's place in the world. Our generation has to reassess how we're going to survive within it. And we can no longer rely on the cardboard cut-out politicians to lead us.
JoelJoel321 4 months ago
@JoelJoel321 Interesting perspective. What do you think Britain's new place should be?
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
@rhymingwithoranges Should be? Will be? Who knows. We are going to be left behind as an economic power. The banks will collapse, we won't have enough money. The BRIC nations will become leaders owing to their economic power. We need to look to securing our own sustainability, our survival. Produce more food and other essentials such as clothing. We won't be able to rely on imports forever, because we won't be able to afford it! This isn't coming from nationalism btw - I'm a global lefty.
JoelJoel321 4 months ago
SO HAPPY TO SEE YOUR FACE
whataboutadam 4 months ago
@whataboutadam Happy to see yours on your channel too!
rhymingwithoranges 4 months ago
I graduated this year and the only reason I felt 'safe' was because I made sure I had done enough work experience each holiday to get a job straight after I left uni! What's happening now scares me more though. I'm pro Occupy Wall Street and do believe some issues need to be addressed. Want to know your take on it for sure.
straightfromschool 4 months ago
1. Jobs for young people: Maybe a mandatory quota for all firms with > 50 employees?
2. The banks. Break them up into smaller (manageable) elements and separate out the risk-taking elements. Apply a transaction tax to the latter (to fund clearing up the huge mess they've made. Where else should the money come from?).
3. "Changes in society". We need more direct democracy - a mix of direct and representative, not just (as now) representative.
4. Glad you're back :-)
Marcomanseckisax 4 months ago
I don't have an overarching idea for how to fix things, but all the time I notice little things that could help a lot. For instance, a few years ago in Louisiana the sanitation department replaced workers with machines. It cost the state money to cross over to the new system, it inconvenienced the citizens who had to buy new bins, it turned the old bins into waste, and it put people out of jobs. I couldn't understand it. I wonder (provided this was possible) if it's too late to switch back.
mayandarko 4 months ago
I'm currently in my last year of university and have decided not to do a postgrad, instead I shall hopefully be off to Dubai :)
zaynabxx 4 months ago
Every piece of legislation which involves a fine/penalty of somesort is social engineering, precipitating change in society - We rationalise through questionning "why?".
ConspiracyLoon 4 months ago
I've just started my final year and I have been applying for jobs and I'm hoping my Chemistry degree, and year in industry, will help make me more employable, then say, a geography or English degree. Heading to the careers fair this week in Manchester to help me work out what I want to do, as I don't really know currently :S I plan to just keep applying and trying to get jobs. Happy to do more internships if need be before I find a full time fully paid job.
caliowin 4 months ago
I'm in the U.S., and I'm definitely worried about finding work after I graduate in a little over a year from now. I think I may stay within the bubble of education you mentioned, just to give myself something to do while the economy picks back up. I hope it does so by the time I finish, though.
emmfan09 4 months ago
I'm in my second year of university in the US, thats after taking 2 years off to travel and changing my major, so I'm not going to graduate for a while, but I worry about the education system here. I've actually considered transferring to a university in Europe, because they don't throw all their money at the football team and seem to care about the education. I had more than one teacher here that instead of lecturing, taught the answers to the test only. It was hard to learn in those classes.
isaiddevilyoulied 4 months ago
Aspect ratio!!!
FromTheFOD 4 months ago
I'm not at all racist but when I hear about all the unemployment over here I can't help but feel a bit twitchy about all the immigrants we have in work or on the dole and almost get a bit protective of our country, I think the suggestion that us brits do the same and leave the country is almost just like pushing the problem elsewhere...
MissusCracker 4 months ago
Uuuuuugh, I feel you on the essay business, Jazza ...
I'm in my last year, too, so ... I'm kinda looking around, too, namely for possible graduate schools or just jobs. But then again, I'm in the US and all. I'm sure I'll find something and figure something out.
- Jason
crimsong19 4 months ago
Reduction from 5 to 4 1/2 day workweeks in big companies would sort this out. An extra job is created for every 9 employees this effects. Downside is this reduces the amount of money those in a job make as they'd work less hours, however I'd rather have 10 million people employed earning 90 arbitrary units a week, than 9 million employed earning 100 arbitrary units a week and a million unemployed.
I'm sure there's a complicated reason we can't do this, but it SEEMS like a good idea.
MZB1993 4 months ago
Also,my masters in definitely has to be something like Economics/International Relations as much as I love Linguistics.It is hard getting over the fact that you can't do exactly what you want to but the reality is that we have to adjust and any life transitions are obviously hard-whether graduation or moving abroad -after 3 years of being cut off from Poland totally ,going back is going to be a bit painful in some ways,you must have experienced this too-living in China for a while...
TheWainwrightfan 4 months ago
I'm currently in my second year of university in the US, and I think the government should not have the responsibility of finding us a job after graduation. Should we also leave it to them to pick a house? a car? I don't want anybody telling me where to work and for whom. That 's a personal decision. If someone wants to find a good job, then they should study something that you know you're going to make good money at. (like law or engineering or medicine).
marcelamr 4 months ago
The economic situation there is not great but it seems like I am much more likely to find a good job in Poland,especially with a British degree,I am still gutted about going back as I love the UK and would have loved to stay here for longer...Good to see you back!
TheWainwrightfan 4 months ago
I am a third year student of Linguistics in England and I am originally from Poland and if you had asked me two years ago about my future plans I would have said that I was definitely going to stay in the UK after graduation ,However,the tuition fees increase was something that I did not expect so the decision to go back to Poland was kind of made for me....
TheWainwrightfan 4 months ago
oh god, iv never been more happy to see a video from a youtuber :D
thesonicpaintbrush 4 months ago
Next year I will be going to become a student nurse... the NHS wont pay for my student fees anymore and I will only earn £200 a week in gross income. I will be in the most stressful profession and put my own self in danger to help people.
If I can help people thats great. But the NHS is now taking radical changes that are killing people...
This country is going to hell... I feel more sorry for my future patients than myself to be honest.
revron77 4 months ago
As for the Occupy protests, they're well-meaning, but also a little misguided. Their goals are too nebulous and their protests too disorganized (& sometimes counterproductive--ie zombie day?). It impugns their credibility. Also, it's the government that writes the rules that corporations & banks benefit by. Their protests should be more pointed in that direction. If you want banks to have less power over you, take your money out of them. If you want politicians to know what you want, TELL THEM.
dafttool 4 months ago
You will be SO much happier in the University world. Come to the US - we'd love to have you. And you can always teach English in Thailand. You would love it there. There is a huge Brit presence there.
robertbangkok 4 months ago
@robertbangkok
In the US a degree doesn't stand for shit anymore because everyone tries to get one.... he would be better off in China.
revron77 4 months ago
@revron77 He will have a Doctorate which, so long as its from a respectable source, is highly regarded. Some can teach with a Masters - depends on the subject and the institution. But since he is fluent in multiple languages and has lived in China, he would be a good candidate at multiple high-quality institutions. It really depends on the University from which the degree was obtained. Respect goes with better schools.
robertbangkok 4 months ago
@robertbangkok
All I am saying is the US at this current time is a bad investment and that so called "American dream" is gone. To spend time on moving to the US could be a big waste of money. And lets face it... the education bubble in the US has started and it will pop. When that happens a lot of Americans wont have a future.
If I had a choice between my nation and the US I would pick my nation anyday.
revron77 4 months ago
I think the Occupy movement is a vocal majority of people who feel the current social-economic situation is inherantly unfair and unsustainable. Unbridled capitalism will if left unchanged irrepairably damage the planet and our civilization and threaten the long term survival of our specsis.
grnlfe01 4 months ago
Being in my 3rd yr of school, I'm very concerned about what will come after school. I'm going to graduate school but the concern is that, since we live in this "bad" economy, it will be very hard finding a job. And there's a lot of negative talk with English majors(which I am)w/ people implying my basic option is teaching. I wish my school/gov would provide more ideas in terms of what are my other options & to provide me a realistic idea of what will happen after school in terms of job finding.
AnekaSvajone 4 months ago
Its so good to see you back on You Tube. I've got another two years of higher education left as I'm studying drama Ive already got low enough job prospects as it is but in two years things can change. The econamy, my situation etc although that being said I feel for the people who are graduating now. Its going to be very tough for them. As for the Occupy movements, the practicalities of their demands is not chiefly what I think concerns them. They just want the status quo to change.
grnlfe01 4 months ago
I'm long past my final year. :-/ But I encountered a bad job environment when I graduated, & have encountered several others since then; they're cyclical. "They" used to call my fellow Gen X'ers slackers for not being able to find work, the same way "they" call the present generation slackers. Pretty much gone are the days where you got a job that you have your whole life. Stability used to bring survival; now it's adaptability. You have to be flexible in your dreams without dashing your spirit.
dafttool 4 months ago 3
I'm terrified about getting a job at the end of this year. Its so lovely to see your face again! Also you're in manch so you are not too far away from me, we should have coffee!
Laurbubble 4 months ago
The government could/should stop wasting money on many things that are seen as 'necessary' which really aren't, and put/plough money into creating new job opportunities within the UK for young people and the unemployed in general. It seems that priorities are incredibly scrambled at No.10
DoctorBenjy 4 months ago
Last year I moved from Spain to Italy for an internship and then they employed me. I know I'm lucky just for having a job, but, really? Having to move abroad and live away from all my family and friends?
AlbaAbies 4 months ago
I had a lot of views when I was leaving university and I was concern. It was a difficult coming out of university.
BarryAldridge 4 months ago
Glad to also have you back Jazza i was waiting for you to pop up again with a new video, i missed discussing subjects with you.
emmabee11 4 months ago
I feel that maybe these protests could be taken a bit more seriously, and have a more plausible outcome, if people tried to be more organized about it. I understand how the world sometimes has the drive to violently express themselves, and how people think it'll make a huge change if they get beaten with billyclubs. Honestly, things like storming the streets get attention and media coverage, but what will come of it...? Many people aren't even on the same page as to what changes they want.
narwhalFTW 4 months ago
I am in Canada and in my fourth year of university (final year). I am currently applying to teacher's college, postgraduate programs at the college level, and a social work post-grad degree. There is no way with my Bachelor of Arts in Psychology will I be able to get a full time job and so I have to specialize in something. I hope that after specializing I can get a job but that is just wishful thinking.
TaraUpshall 4 months ago
Stay in education and get an internship, there are so few jobs out there that can support us.... A LSE geography grad 2:1 trying to get a job is trickkkkkky, I've been on a paid 4 month work placement but there is no chance of a job with them. They need to make businesses want to train us which businesses don't want to spend money on, cus lots of jobs want 2 years experience... etc. It's really hard to get on the job ladder. I shall make you a video response :)
thekingofdefford 4 months ago
The Occupy Wall Street can be seen as a form of Counter-Hegemony (or Resistance) to the Hegemonic State. The hegemonic state doesn't necessarily mean the United States government but from what I have learned it is the against the economic status quo being 1% of the United States population has control of approximately 25% of the country's GDP.
NibbledbyDucks 4 months ago
I graduate in December and I'm not sure whether to continue school or look for a real job, either... I definitely want to take a year of from school though. I'm in the US, though, so I can't relate... I'm not sure the US government is doing anything to help us young people. It freaks me out because I have two friends who graduated back in May and still haven't found work. They don't have any work experience though, while I do, so that only makes me somewhat hopeful that I will be more lucky
owlsongs 4 months ago
I'm quietly confident I will find a job in my chosen field of law, but we have a privileged position in that we have particular jobs only we can do. Failing which I don't really know I'm pretty willing to do anything.
The multi-agenda madness of the Occupy protests and others leads me to believe they're more about anger with the current system than any real belief theres a better way. It's like the blackberry; there may not be a better answer but you still be angry when the current one crashes!
Loreki 4 months ago
The government are never making gettting easier i mean you have to do 2 tests: maths and litteratacy in order to even get into a 2 day course for a food certificate i mean what the hell?. Plus they have told the job centre to stop helping us look for work now and send us to these silly "work programme" things even when they are a bunch of a waste of time because they cant do any better than we can. There IS no work! so it's like completely and utter frustration when...
emmabee11 4 months ago
@emmabee11 they keep saying "Well you need a job" argh! there is non you silly and ignorant people like i've applied at all 3 subways close by to me 3 times, no answer, i've applied at every café in town, no answer, applied at new look, game, in a takeaway no answer, it's like were just completely getting ignored. I cant work at all and it's so frustrating when people keep assuming i'm not trying hard enough, all i can do is apply but like nothing :(. The government are only making it harder.
emmabee11 4 months ago
@emmabee11 Oh and i cant go back to college ether due the government making college funds unjustly too high for even anyone on job seekers and they are doing nothing whatsoever to make jobs for us, they are just letting us lye in all this stress and frustration while the "primeminister" talks out of his bum all the time lol, they just take from us and never give anything back, all they do is make things more complicated for everybody and it's just not right any more.
emmabee11 4 months ago