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Originally Posted by Hom3r
How could I be expected to do a menial job like flipping burgers & sales assistants, both jobs are unskilled where the first jobs I ever had to do and the reason I spent £5,000 getting a skill base I could you for a better job.
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that's exactly the problem imo with the system .Anybody who is unemployed is assumed to be able to take any job offered ,now while this is true in theory, in practice someone who is highly trained in their field will have expenses to match the wage they have been used to ,minimum wage won't pay for my van,diesel,tools ,insurance +the general costs of living so i would have to sell my van ,tools ect thus diminishing the potential of getting work .like you i have spent alot of money trying to guarantee i don't have to rely on the state ,so when the world finances go to pot i understandably feel a bit upset and resent being lumped alongside of the pepole who will not work
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Originally Posted by SMG
If the jobs gone, its gone. What do you want to do, wait for another to pop up, do you expect the taxpayer to stump up while your waiting? How long do you wait? How long do you want to wait?
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that isn't the point SMG ,but in answer to your question ,as chris has already pointed out, highly trained ,highly paid people are not usually out of work for too long so you could say that they they are only getting back a bit of what they have put in .In my opinion it is the governments responsibility to attract employers into this country (as Maggie did with Toyota an Nissan)so that this sort of situation doesn't arise in the first place
The point is should anyone be forced to work for less than the minimum wage