My friends are out growing me

Yeah don't worry Hex1gon i was in the same exact situation for awhile too after since High School :/ and even they want to ditch me but i've been peeping around Facebook & told all kinds of crazy stories, parties & shit! Just kinda pisses me off too but gladly i've manage to find some new friends around my new home ever since i'd moved so it's cool man, I've been there too (sorta still am sadly)

 

Don't worry hex1gon. It happens to all of us. Real friends will always be there. Just try to have fun in life no matter what... Have fun always. And laugh with no fear of the future. You're alive, you've been surviving without a job. If you don't need a job, don't get one. Work sucks, it's all I do. Just do what you enjoy, whether it's GTA or going out to movies. Life's too short to not have fun along the way.

 

Joking or seriously?

 

that was a bit of both, but yeah at my age they ain’t gonna hire me unless they have no choice, when they can pay younger people less.

edit* not that i actually wanted to work there but there wasn't many options at the time.

 

A McJob is a good job these days. They are secure, relatively well paying and in demand.

 

Now I know you are joking, maybe not about demand tho

 

Errrr, are you kidding? McDonalds jobs are desirable in the current market because they often don't have much in the way of requirements (generally trained on the job) and are secure, because McDonalds aren't going to go bust.

 

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All I know I'm waaaaay overqualified for the job I'm doing, and so are most of my coworkers.

I get the apathy, these days a college degree isn't a safe choice, it wont even mean you can land a job, let alone a good job.

Sorry but I'm tired of all that "generation Y is lazy" bullshit, we are a lot of things like narcissistic and unable to feel empathy but lazy or lazier than past generations we are not. I'm fucking done with boomers bitching that we don't buy enough cars when any shitcan these days costs 20 grand and those boomers themselves destroyed the economy that allowed young people to be able to afford such things.

Now America is more like the third world countries you read about in the news, where young people can't even afford to pay rent so they live with their parents well into their 30s.

 

I don't want to put you on blast right now, but this is the second time you've said something that I find to be completely fucking ridiculous and frankly akin to someone that has had the same job since 1982 and entered a job market that didn't suck as badly as this one.

Across 2 weeks I'd find a maximum of 8 jobs that I could apply for, and this is bearing in mind that I'm applying for listings that don't list qualifications they want, meaning I'm probably wasting time applying for those. The job center flat out said I shouldn't apply for apprenticeships and threatened to stop my JSA when I did. Well guess what? I now have a position I'm starting on Monday at thanks to the apprenticeship I applied for that threatened to have my JSA cut off. Try telling me that I'm lazy, when I was actually discouraged from applying for those opportunities.

The market in general sucks dick these days, it may be an employers market, but at times it's not that people are too lazy or don't want certain jobs. I couldn't apply to pack boxes in a warehouse, it's that i required experience packing boxes in a warehouse which I don't have. Am I also lazy because I can't travel 90 miles to a job [that's what the Job center recommends!]?

Your location is interesting as well, you can probably sit and type this while the gravy train keeps arriving for the Caledonian mafia so you can go to uni without paying a penny amongst other things.

 

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Oh thank the lord, Danny Granger was about to bless us with his advice which probably wouldn't be much different from "buy a suit, you're not getting a job because your lazy" or even the classic "watching Jeremy Kyle won't get you a job".

I exceeded the Jobcenters expectations and still only managed to find 8 jobs, but heck, that's my failure of effort right? Your advice seems to rely upon the "fact" that everybody who isn't in work is lazy and doing nothing which is flat out wrong.

When your done spending your day reading the daily mail and other tabloids you might want to give resources like Universal Jobmatch a look and then realize how few jobs are actually on offer, try inquiring to see how many people have applied for one listing [I inquired to one, over a hundred people applied for it in a 3 day period] then when your done you can come back and apologize for acting like a cunt.

I have a job I'm starting soon thanks, and I don't worry about heating bills anyway, thanks for reassuring us with that point that you are an undeniable cunt though.

 

I know I'm not the only one man, it's just it seems this generation has been the most difficult. I've spoken to parents with kids my age, a lot of them have law education and other high end paper but still can't find a job.
Hopefully for the both us, we can get a job that's well paid one day. Good luck as well!

I hear you bro, I'm not going to dwell on this too much it was a moment thing and I still haven't heard from my friends at all but that's fine. I don't require them to laugh or have fun.
Thanks for the uplifting comment though, made me feel a lot better already

You fail to understand, not everyone wants to work for a few dollars for a sake of having a job unless they REALLY need it. I won't take a job that takes me 3 hours to get to and being paid $9 an hour on, because guess what? I'll be spending $20 on travel. So I'll be out of pocket even more WITH a job.

Because I'm not working, doesn't make me lazy. You seem like the type that people will employ, a prick with a bunch of unhelpful words.

I should add you're very stuck up for someone earning 35 grand a year. Possibly you dislike your job, no need to take it out on the community.

 

Don't bother yourself with that guy. He claims to be educated in '82 so he's of the generation that thinks you can still lose your job and find another one on the way home.

 

i trip over the damn things all the time.

 

As others said, you're the one needing change, not your friends. Change isn't bad or good, it's something new. Where you are now, is safe, because you know your routine. But look at it this way: Ships are safe in a harbor, but the idea of ships isn't to keep them in one

 

If you finished education in the 80s and only on £35k, id suggest you dont give out advice on a career. I finished in the 00's and earn more than you and dont consider myself successful at all.

 

Sucees is what you make of it, a friend of mine left high school half way through year 10 and sure he had the "shitty" jobs. He worked as a warehouse hand (bags/suitcases etc), car detailer, security (is black belt and a coupla dans in kung-POW! or something) and finally got into sales rep. First in auto electrics and then into performance car stuff. Outta the blue one day he rang and mentioned he had an offer with Coke (coca-cola) and said should he take it? "Dumb-ass!" I said "of course we are heading into a recession, what are people going to stop buying?" "Fully hektik turbo's or Coca-Cola?"

He took the offer and is now a regional manager and has just opened up his own kung-POW/gym studio thingy.

Not bad for a high school drop out!

 

Errr, not to discredit him but if he decides to get back into bouncing make him learn something that's going to back him up in a heavy situation. He probably outweighed must people and was able to just throw them out but if he runs into a situation where he's outnumbered or the guy is equal sized Karate [I assume that's what you mean by Kung Pow] is a really really poor choice for self defense these days since most current brands are useful for point fighting competition only.

http://mcdojo-faq.tripod.com/

Ctrl+F for "i am the product" and it'll explain why even legitimate Karate is kind of useless. Boxing or some form of ground fighting would be much better for him imo.

 

I'm sorry but you have lost me.....

If he is regional manager with Coca-Cola, is running his own gym/martial arts classes I don't think he will be going back to security?

It is a mixed martial arts studio (with gym on the side) he basically rents out the floor space to various classes.

Not being a cheeky f'ker, I was trying to put some "jollines" into my post.