True, but as I am sure you have a degree, would you take a cleaning job? ... if necessity dictated you had to would you be happy about it?
Sounds like Simone de Beauvoir? One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here."
I haven't got a degree, I haven't even got an A-Level. I've cleaned ****e off the bathroom floor in KFC, I cleaned cars full time in a garage, I worked 3 nights a week in a burger van, I picked up glasses in a night club, I tarmacked driveways for a year (obviously being Irish, even tarmacked my own drive) and when I lost my gambling job in Malta 3 years ago I applied to do a labouring job in Belfast before going on to taking another gambling job in Guernsey. If you gotta pay the bills then you gotta pay them, and even if you take a **** job it's only a stop gap until something better comes along. If I didn't take that job in Guernsey I had literal contract offers from betting companies in London, Malta, Darwin (Australia) and Brighton - all because my criteria when I was out of work was that I would go anywhere for any price. It's amazing how many jobs are on offer when you are willing to be completely flexible in location and job type - but then again I've also missed about 70% of my kids growing up over the last 3 years because I'm always a plane flight away, so it all depends on what you are willing to sacrifice. But there is work all over the place if you are willing to be flexible, which is why we find lovely flexible people from Poland flexing their way towards us.
Would you be flexible on your wages, say you are on £15 an hour, then your gaffer says we're dropping your money down to the minimum wage and if you don't like it you can **** off cos we've got some eastern europeans who will do it for that, because thats what the minimum wage has done in a lot of circumstances
Your gaffer can't drop your wage like that legally unless the company goes into administration, or you agree to a wage cut as part of a restructuring program (for instance to avoid a certain number of redundancies). But if for whatever reason my current job didn't work out (and in my experience most companies only cut costs when they are in trouble, they are happy to not replace staff with cheaper alternatives when there is still plenty of money floating around) then of course I would take a pay cut. I'd take whatever I could get until something better comes along.
Legally they cant, but when have they ever been legal when it comes to screwing the workers, it happens, and it happens a lot. I'd love to know who did all these jobs before the mass invasion of eastern europeans came here.
We had expóse television programs about the fat useless £150 call out fee plumbers who replaced your boiler when it needed a 25p fuse. The Poles have came along and started charging prices which represent the complete lack of academic qualifications needed for such a role. I call this an economic correction. But of course I would say this as I'm not a fat useless British plumber who has bought a house I can no longer afford.
I'd happily rebel against government in general, but not alongside some lank-haired commie prick or skinhead Nazi trying to get an even more authoritarian government installed. If there's ever a true revolution for liberty in this country, I'd sacrifice all sorts for it. Genuinely. But most people in this country are happy to pay their taxes to Daddy Government and grumble about whichever political party is in charge, unless it's theirs, in which case everything it's doing is completely infallible. The British are good people, but have been made servile by years of socialist policy and a ruling class who know exactly what they're doing. It looks increasingly like the only way to establish true freedom is to try and infiltrate that ruling class like the Tea Party have whoppingly failed to orchestrate in the States. Nice try though.
If only we could have an electorate that was genuine, rather than these plastic twats that we have had to endure for the last 15 years. We need a leader with balls and the courage of conviction to do the right thing. In summmary, **** all chance of that happening, hence the reason I don't vote.
I disagree with your reasons not for voting (i.e. you want a different leader), but hey, the more non-voters the better. I'm sick of being told why not voting means I'm not a 'responsible citizen'. Voting for that pack of utter scumbags makes you nothing more than an irresponsible, servile, self-defeating prick.
I've never voted and I never intend to. Endorsing a system I don't approve of by participating in it would be foolish to say the least, unless there's some realistic chance that my participation could lead to its overthrow. I come from a Tory background, but I see all the parties as the same. Self-serving arms of the political class who are different only in name and voter demoraphic. They all have the same pramatic, principle-devoid outlook.
I'm too busy building my new company up to think about revolution. Not happy with rising prices though, fuel is now something like £1.40 a litre, as compared to 10p a litre in Kuwait
