One of my best friends is 23 and passed his Masters in a Logistics/Planning type of degree.

Wants to work for a local authority like his dad, retire early, good pension etc, etc.

Can’t find work due to the present situation and admits that despite inside help from his dad and dad’s workmates there’s no opportunities due to people massively experienced who are out of work and fighting for those jobs.

He’s always moaning about being short of money as well let me add.

In October I offered him a job in logistics at my internet company, casual to start with to see if it suited him and absolutely no pressure from me, if a council job came up I told him I’d expect him to leave.

He said to me in reply.......

“ Cheers mate but it’s been a really tough year and I haven’t had a holiday so in two weeks time me and the girlfriend are off to Spain for a fortnight........and to be honest it’s not really what I want to do anyway “

🙄🙄🙄🙄😫😫

This is the problem with a lot of the people that go through academia, they don’t live in the real world.

Everything has to be just perfect or they can’t do it.

If he’d been in work with me his chances of getting a job would’ve been much improved as he gained experience rather than just being another unemployed graduate.

His mate ( another young friend of mine ) is a welder........in summer he did his welding job and did 4 hours a day at my place and so worked a 12 hour day.

No university education for him, just university of life like I went through!