2019 UK General Election

[Gandalf]

Bloody hell. There are jobs everywhere. Even a cleaner earns 8.21 an hour which is how Brett Anderson developed as a young man. Lidl pays 9-10 pounds and my goodness if you have girlfriend who you haven't knocked up yet, you can even pool your resources providing you don't get a junk habit! These are the jobs with minimal skills required. Really basic stuff and it is on you if you haven't got many qualifications.

If you have a few skills, know how to wear a suit, then better jobs are there. Is it really evil to suggest that the work is there and that with a little charm you will get a job and not need a food bank? Page after page of work people can do, some low paid and some kind of good.

https://www.indeed.co.uk/jobs-in-Lee...2d8a8a0a3a046f

[Fatboxingfan]

all them jobs you're talkin about are for teenagers who don't mind sharing a one-bedroom apartment with four other people and sharing the toilet bowl bespeckled and bes mattered with four other frat boys 22 years old. What grown man 35 or 45 years old is going to work in a supermarket for 8 lb an hour and feel happy? It looks easy to you because you are looking at it from a far. it seems like it would make such a perfect sense on paper but the moment you personally Gandalf go back to the UK for example and try to get one of those job you will see how hard it is to even be offered one because they will look at you and say your resume says English teacher you are not allowed to work in the supermarket as an English teacher because there are a hundred other applicants who already have supermarket experience and they will take them over you six ways to Sunday. Don't believe me go ahead and go back to the UK and see if it works

[Gandalf]

all them jobs you're talkin about are for teenagers who don't mind sharing a one-bedroom apartment with four other people and sharing the toilet bowl bespeckled and bes mattered with four other frat boys 22 years old. What grown man 35 or 45 years old is going to work in a supermarket for 8 lb an hour and feel happy? It looks easy to you because you are looking at it from a far. it seems like it would make such a perfect sense on paper but the moment you personally Gandalf go back to the UK for example and try to get one of those job you will see how hard it is to even be offered one because they will look at you and say your resume says English teacher you are not allowed to work in the supermarket as an English teacher because there are a hundred other applicants who already have supermarket experience and they will take them over you six ways to Sunday. Don't believe me go ahead and go back to the UK and see if it works

I have plenty of retail work experience and my sister checked out a language school nearby where I would be on about 12 pounds an hour if I did that. Would have walked into it as nobody around would have my qualifications or experience. In fact would have been weird for me to even do it. I was curious thus checked it out. Had one of my homesick moments. Not great money, but not the worst for a cram school. That is if I didn't even bother aspiring to something more fitting with my resume which would be genuine tertiary education. My friend who went back home, pretty similar to me, walked into a college job fairly quickly, but then went overseas again as the Middle East meant apartment with a swimming pool, no tax etc. The work is there.

What a supermarket is looking for is charm, efficiency, and an ability to work under pressure. They hire all kinds of people and all it takes is initiative and going straight to the manager explaining that you want a job, are dedicated, and will work hard. How do you think I even got my first job in retail? I had no experience, was young, still at school, but they could see brightness and that alone gets you into most entry level jobs.

It isn't about me though as I have studied and have the work that fits my level, but I am saying other bright young things can still walk into those positions and in a few years rise up. That's how I raised my wages back home. Took a few training courses and each time the pay goes up a notch. I would often do 50 hour weeks and even as a student be doing 25. The work was always there. I have never known a time without work except for time I took off to write a dissertation. My only issue with it was that it was all about share owners, but the older me also realizes the money was enough. I simply spent it too fast like others. The quickest to complain are those who spend the fastest.

[Fatboxingfan]

You see that Cram school that you talking about for 12 lb an hour? that's split shifts you will work from 8 a.m. until 12 noon and have nothing to do again until 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. night shift

You will have to take public transportation

No you will not get the supermarket jobs

you have to complete a company profile online and then apply on their web page and it will take a very long time for them to get back to you also they only hire 19 year olds who do everything that they are told like a little puppy dog

It's not the same world you remember

[Gandalf]

You see that Cram school that you talking about for 12 lb an hour? that's split shifts you will work from 8 a.m. until 12 noon and have nothing to do again until 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. night shift

You will have to take public transportation

No you will not get the supermarket jobs

you have to complete a company profile online and then apply on their web page and it will take a very long time for them to get back to you also they only hire 19 year olds who do everything that they are told like a little puppy dog

It's not the same world you remember

Not at all.

It would have been afternoons until evenings, could get myself a car, but really be able to walk it considering the location and find a place to live fairly easily. It is not like a big American city. And college jobs are everywhere too.

I would get a supermarket job very easily as I know how to work counters, administer in offices, and have references proving my ability in that regard. In a Northern town you can walk into the supermarket, get the managers number, and they are usually looking for staff and if you are someone who seems relatively normal you will be given a chance. The only issue would be them thinking 'Why on earth do you want to work in a supermarket?' and thinking you will jump to something better quickly, but I am also pretty good at explaining myself to people.

That's the other thing, I do not doubt myself or my ability to get what I want.

[Fatboxingfan]

I had no idea how different the UK was from France. Everything here is done online. You have to go to the company websites for all of the big places like Macy's and McDonald's and Target and Home Depot and Sam's club at Aldi's and Costco and Walmart and Sears add Burger King and KFC and Best Buy. You cannot just walk into those stores and ask for a manager. They will tell you to go online and apply. also how the hell are you going to afford a car if they only paying you 12 / hour?

[walrus]

I had no idea how different the UK was from France. Everything here is done online. You have to go to the company websites for all of the big places like Macy's and McDonald's and Target and Home Depot and Sam's club at Aldi's and Costco and Walmart and Sears add Burger King and KFC and Best Buy. You cannot just walk into those stores and ask for a manager. They will tell you to go online and apply. also how the hell are you going to afford a car if they only paying you 12 / hour?

Hey fats since when have they had a Macy’s in France? Look it up I’ll wait

[Gandalf]

I had no idea how different the UK was from France. Everything here is done online. You have to go to the company websites for all of the big places like Macy's and McDonald's and Target and Home Depot and Sam's club at Aldi's and Costco and Walmart and Sears add Burger King and KFC and Best Buy. You cannot just walk into those stores and ask for a manager. They will tell you to go online and apply. also how the hell are you going to afford a car if they only paying you 12 / hour?

I am sure a lot of people apply for jobs that way and they will get rejected. I was watching a documentary one time about Brits who were blaming foreigners for getting the jobs. It turned out the Brits were doing what you did, but the Europeans were going in, asking, being personable, and basically showing that they really wanted that job. You cannot see that from an online resume. You see it face to face with a manager. I cannot speak for Burger King etc, but for ordinary restaurants etc, of course you can do that. The foreigners really were taking the jobs, but it was a difference in approach.

As for the car, I have two of them, I will just buy another.