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Discussion in 'Hull City' started by TheCasual, Aug 27, 2017.

  1. Barchullona

    Barchullona Well-Known Member

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    Are you the Neanderthal holding the spear?
     
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  2. LeftSaidFred

    LeftSaidFred Well-Known Member

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    Tell me about it!!
     
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  3. Barchullona

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    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.”
     
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  4. Mr Hatem

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    Ug
     
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  5. TheCasual

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    There doesn't to be a lot out there at the moment.
     
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  6. City Man

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    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
     
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  7. Brabs

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    I, like a lot of people I know, had to go to Leeds / Sheffield for decent opportunities initially.
     
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  8. Mr Hatem

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    I didn't think I'd see Leeds, Sheffield and decent in the same sentence.
     
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  9. Barchullona

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    Depends where they are being compared to.
     
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  10. City Man

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    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.
     
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  11. petersaxton

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    what happened in the last 10 years?
    I thought it was always easy to get a job in London
     
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  12. City Man

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    People realised it was an overpriced ****hole.
     
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  13. petersaxton

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    it's a bigger and more varied place than you think
    we don't all live in the East End
     
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  14. Barchullona

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    This Hull bloke knew that a long time ago.

     
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  15. City Man

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    Barriers to entry higher than ever for impoverished young provincials it seems.
     
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  16. City Man

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    Not written about Connor & Graham.
     
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  17. petersaxton

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    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
     
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  18. TheCasual

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    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.
     
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  19. Barchullona

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    Cronyism.<laugh> 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...
     
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  20. TheCasual

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    Cronyism beats sending out tons of CV's and covering letters :emoticon-0102-bigsm
     
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