„Ich habe mich um mehr als 100 Jobs beworben“: 18-Jährige befürchtet, dass sie lebenslang von der allgemeinen Rente abhängig sein wird
https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2025-10-27/18-year-old-from-the-rhondda-valley-fears-shell-be-on-universal-credit-for-life
Von OGSyedIsEverywhere
5 Kommentare
MoD are always looking for fit young people:
https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/careers/joining-process/eligibility
https://recruitment.raf.mod.uk/find-your-role
https://jobs.army.mod.uk/how-to-join/
Really this seems to be a combination of state failure and poor decisions: in an area with high unemployment and in a loosening labour market in the country more broadly yeah, you’re not going to get a job with just GCSEs – the best use of her time would be going back into education and getting A levels.
I’m sure you immediately thought,“you are obviously doing it wrong.“ And she probably is. But why hasn’t her 14 years of state education prepared her (mentally and literally) for this most fundamental of requirements to survive in the modern world?
She has to prove she spends 35hrs a week looking for work in order to receive UC. I’m not even sure how I would go about proving that if that was me.
My programme for this:
* Attend interview elsewhere in the country and job center will give you a rail pass.
* Get the job, get a council studio flat or better, as well as having middle class parent type support from the local job center.
* Return the school leaving age to 16 but improve adult education. No benefits for people who leave at 16.
* Mandatory page 1 the same for all job applications. They are all the same anyway.
* Bonuses for job centre workers for clients who keep a continuous employment record for 1, 2 and 5 years if they’ve been out of work for more than a year.