OK - “I went self employed at around 40 but at least I'd been employed in the same line of work all my working life. It took a few years to get going but then it really took off. I'm happy to not employ people. There's the possibility of more money to be made if you do employ people but it comes with a lot more stress.”
Never has been round here. Other parts of the country have booms and recessions, we seem to exist in our own economic permanently overcast and chilly micro climate. Don't see massive change after Siemens, certainly not the economic ripple foreseen.Happy to be proved wrong on this if someone knows different? If I add up my months signing on, it comes to about 3 years of my (non) working life. Snowflakes may rant about us boomers, but O my Lord how my fellow gammon have suffered
Job deserts bitd, Leeds is better now than 30 or 40 years back. It was London till about 10 years ago. Mind the ****ing gap.
when I moved to London in 1973 me and my girlfriend went to look at a flat to rent and there was a queue of 400
Just been thinking virtually all my jobs I have gotten through people recommending me. Off the top of my head only one I've got through a full interview process.
Cronyism. Ought to be banned. My lad was made redundant. Job centre was useless. Nothing in 7 or 8 months.He bumped into someone he hadn’t seen for a while who knew he was dependable. Told someone who had a job going about him and next thing he had a job. 6 years later he is still there and got moved up and really enjoying it. Job centre did things like threaten to sanction him if he didn’t go for interviews for things like a fork lift driver over 30 miles away despite him having no experience of operating one. Pointing out that the fork lift drivers, including those with cherry picker licences, who had been made redundant with him were still out of work what made them think that a firm over 30miles away would be unable to find one or why they would employ someone who couldn’t operate one cut no ice. So another pointless journey and a wasted day...