Do lots of young people not work these days ?

If I won/aquired 500k I'd quit work and the UK forever.

You could live somewhere cheap basically forever on that. And never work again! <3
 
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I suspect that many of those kids you are seeing are actually aged 16+, but they look younger than that to you, because you're getting old.

Plus shift work is far more common these days, so there's more people off work during the traditional 9-5 hours.

Plus there's a lot more people in the UK, back in the early 90s the estimate was ~57 million, now we're at ~70 million iirc.
 
UTmaniac said:
I suspect that many of those kids you are seeing are actually aged 16+, but they look younger than that to you, because you're getting old.

Plus shift work is far more common these days, so there's more people off work during the traditional 9-5 hours.

Plus there's a lot more people in the UK, back in the early 90s the estimate was ~57 million, now we're at ~70 million iirc.
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Yet we have an ageing population. I wish someone could explain that to me!
 
imtoooldforthis said:
He's been offered two jobs now but all he wanted was some free money for a couple of months before he goes travelling, he wasn't expecting to actually have to do stuff to get the free money lol.
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Does he have to accept the jobs or can he turn it down and continue to receive said money? :cry:
 
Diddums said:
I had a 24 yo young man start with us on Monday. The kid's already running circles around the older guys, turns up to work early, always happy to jump in and do stuff, a genuine breath of fresh air. Kid's gonna go far in life. Don't believe all the crap you read on social media ;)
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They always start like that. Wait six months and then he be spending half the day sitting down looking at his mobile phone screen..;):D
 
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darkgen said:
Yet we have an ageing population. I wish someone could explain that to me!
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It's pretty simple, actually.

Everything is so expensive and wages are so stagnant that having kids is becoming less and less appealing to people living here hence the drop in birth rate. Similar trends are apparent across countless developed nations.

The population continues to increase because native Brits don't want to wipe a geriatric's behind for £12 an hour and the people at the top don't want to pay people more to wipe the geriatric's behind so you end up with a mass amount of migrants from poorer countries for whom the £12 an hour is much more appealing. The same is seen at the other end of the spectrum where £29k a year for a trainee doctor is a lot more appealing to the Indian migrant than it is to the British student who's paying £700 a month to flatshare with 3 other people and feels like they'll never be able to afford a home. The migrants who come in are, surprisingly, not babies so the average age gets pushed up even further.

Someone has to do these jobs and instead of doing anything to solve the problems with things like housing costs, wages and life just generally getting worse, these companies and the government rely on the myriad of migrants who want to come to Britain. The migrants themselves aren't the issue, it's the capitalistic desire for my money go up but your money stays the same.
 
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Moothead2 said:
Out of curiosity, why do you want to spend 8-9 hours a day, five days a week working for someone else? Is it like a kink or something?
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I end up getting bored sometimes when i no work.Specially in the cold & wet winter months

But am guessing this is a lot to do with am so used to working and having so little free time.
 
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chaparral said:
I end up getting bored sometimes when i no work.Specially in the cold & wet winter months

But am guessing this is a lot to do with am so used to working and having so little free time.
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Do you find it hard to believe that people find working more boring than literally any alternative?
 
Moothead2 said:
Do you find it hard to believe that people find working more boring than literally any alternative?
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Yup my job is pretty damn boring.

But I think most are really unless you are an astronaut or formula 1 driver or something.

I am very jealous of people who find something they love doing as a job, although I reckon some of them are full of **** anyway.

My mantra is if you you can't do something you love, aim to do something you get paid the most for whilst doing as little work/easy as possible.

I got a pretty good gig at the moment but even then I still moan about it, but it will come hard when it goes.
 
BUDFORCE said:
Yup my job is pretty damn boring.

But I think most are really unless you are an astronaut or formula 1 driver or something.

I am very jealous of people who find something they love doing as a job, although I reckon some of them are full of **** anyway.

My mantra is if you you can't do something you love, aim to do something you get paid the most for whilst doing as little work/easy as possible.

I got a pretty good gig at the moment but even then I still moan about it, but it will come hard when it goes.
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Same boat.
My job is easy. I've moved to contract now. I have a 1 year then I'm planning to take 6 months off and travel. If I can't do something I love I need to make the remuneration worth it.

For me, time. Is now more valuable than salary level.

Unless I can retire 10 years early (not goona happen) I'd rather just have contracts.
 
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