There is no excuse to be unemployed

is it even possible for you to be further up your own rear end?!
so you're saying that if you'd just created £30000+ debt doing a decent degree, you'd be satisfied cleaning toilets because selfish idiotic snobs like you think yourself so high and mighty and everyone else the scum of the earth?

I'm saying if you're not good enough to get a job doing what you want to do, then cleaning toilets is not beneath you.

I'm saying if you're not good enough to get a job doing what you want to do, then cleaning toilets is not beneath you.

or maybe there arent enough jobs in your field of specialisation because the economy is so s***? there are hundreds of applicants for every vacancy, only one person can have it, even if many of the others were good enough for the job.

believe me, if you're made redundant purely because the company couldnt afford to pay you, nothing to do with your work perfomance, and you were earning £100,000 a year, and you have very good experience and could easily do every one of the 200 jobs you apply for, but there simply are too many people applying to each job that many dont even get seen, reviewed or interviewed, then you ARE above cleaning toilets.

why dont you go clean some toilets, i wouldnt hire you if you come across this rude all the time and in general life, so that's where you'd likely end up.

Oh sod off. I got my current job that I really enjoy straight out of uni with little experience.

For the people who are long-term unemployed, there is a reason for it, and it's not just the recession.

Gone are the days when whole counties were employed by the manufacturing sector (cotton mills, train building, car industry etc), as things are outsourced and/or imported, the number of jobs is going DOWN with the population going UP, or does the OP transcend logic?

On the news there was a man saying, 'the foreigners work for peanuts'. But they can only for minimum wage ffs, which the last time I checked was hardly peanuts.

These British people need a good kick up the backside to get a job.

Or there are no jobs above London...........

I think it depends on the type of job.

Yes, for graduate-level jobs there's always going to be a lot of competition for only a few jobs. However, if someone really needs any job to pay the bills, there are plenty. I got a job doing waitressing, with no experience or qualifications, aged 15: and I work alongside people 30 years older than me who have this type of job as their only source of income.

This doesn't, obviously, lead to a fulfilled worker: but if it's sustaining a reasonable standard of living that someone needs, they should be willing to look at these sort of entry-level jobs.

Above London? What? Do you mean outside of London?

Then why can't the grads take minimum wage jobs until a suitable vacancy arises? There are plenty of toilet-cleaning jobs available.

Because, unlike Busted:

THAT'S NOT WHAT WE GO TO SCHOOL FOR

It depends where you live. There are regional differences. If you live in a small town then there are not that many of those type of small entry level jobs available. In a city its better but most graduates who haven't got a graduate job end up moving back with parents because its hard to pay for rent in a city, when you are working part time as a waitress or bar man or whatever.

Also don't forget in the current climate, for all of the 'low level' jobs in supermarkets or shops etc, there are people who have got a lot more experience than graduates have, who are floating around the labour market having been made redundant from their previous jobs. They have got an advantage over graduates who have just been in education and done the odd part time job, so its not always easy for graduates to get the lower level jobs in a tight labour market.

These British people need a good kick up the backside to get a job.