Is there a job for everyone

SwiftFox
SwiftFox Posts: 497 Empowering

Is there really a job for everyone, disabled or not disabled? Would you have to except zero hours instead..Jobs have always been hard to come by, even years ago. Don't believe it was easier years ago, it wasn't, it was just has hard. But back then the zero slavery hours didn't exist at all. There was still queues outside the dole office/job centre in the 60s/70s/and 80s whether you were disabled or not.

I hear people say I am unemployable because of my disability or there is no jobs for disabled people. I struggled to get jobs in my time with having operations etc, but I kept pushing and pushing till they gave me one.

Please don't say it was easier back then, it wasn't, even when I had a green card and I still struggled to gain employment, it's no harder now than it was then believe me. Don't give in and don't give up, somebody wants you somewhere honestly.

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  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,198 Championing

    I wish i could trust myself to hold down a job everything about the structure of society seems alien to me im getting extremly overwelmed reading articles stating this big push to get disabled people back into work there is none all hospitality shutting down soon supermarkets will have manal checkouts in china robots run shops and it is the rise of AI that will replace lots of jobs my daughters included shes a Data Anilis god cant spell yes has always been the same but for a while seemed people was taken care of council would paint houses do gardens was more day centres i sit here for hours thinking what can i do and honestly day in day out i couldnt keep up id crash and burn i wish wish i had the capability it kills me that i dont i dont want to sound negative to your post and i hear what your saying but it seems everything has changed

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 5,731 Championing

    No, I don't believe there is a job for everyone. Personally I'm too slow and too unreliable to be of any use in a job. The whole point of working is to be productive enough to make the company a profit. I could never do that now, can't even manage basic daily tasks independently any more.

    I would also disagree that it wasn't easier to get jobs in the past. I got a job easily straight out of school but had to stop due to health conditions. Then tried to find another 5 years later and the whole jobs market had changed, I did get a couple of interviews out of many, many applications but never got offered anything further. Of course I was a less desirable candidate that time, but it felt completely different as well, with more applicants for every job, and fewer vacancies. I suspect it's more like a rollercoaster where there are periods of easy job hunting and periods of difficult job hunting, rather than a simple blanket statement of 'easier in the past'.

  • SwiftFox
    SwiftFox Posts: 497 Empowering

    I except your not being negative, but I'm not saying everybody get a job, I'm just saying it's not changed over the years about getting one if you have some sort of disability or not. Home work has made it easier for some people, but not every job can be done at home. If you are severely disabled then adaptions would be needed in some factories or offices. It is a fact that work won't suit everyone and those people should be protected with benefits.

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 279 Connected

    No, trust me, I've been trying to get a job beyond the voluntary sector for nearly 31 years and I keep getting rejected because for various personal and financial reasons I can't work 40 hours a week.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,198 Championing

    The worrying thing for me is what they are saying there setting up to help Disabled people back to work in the white paper changing goal posts later down the line been pushed maybe to engage in getting back to work which is good if people are able too but l see this been rolled out to people who arent and as i said before we really need to think of the rise of AI in the job market im going to keep a diary of my daily life and all doctors letters ect may do no good but its for my sanity as well i was reading that they would look at the aspect of change and how it effects you ie work engaging ect i mean how would i prove my illetrucy issues resding writing learning spelling the works how to prove that and im sure alot of other people with invisible illnesses

  • Littlefatfriend
    Littlefatfriend Online Community Member Posts: 420 Pioneering
    edited March 7

    In my experience the jobs market is very much a horses for courses kinda situation.

    Most of us have at least some skills and talents. The question in employment is whether those skills can offer advantage to a company which is using us to make profit. Not all of them are worth money.

    I found working (beginning @1993) to be most about equipping myself with skills, qualifications and experience that helped us set up and run businesses. I then got further qualifications and gained experience in teaching, in order to do that. Likewise advocacy, all manner of things with computers, various jobs.

    My school friends all began apprenticeships when they left school and each went on to be successful in that career.

    Not all of us are in a position to do that. I no longer am for the most part, and I'm pleased to recognise my limits. Many disabilities change if we have them for long enough.

    Four years ago my niece began working full-time straight after she finished university. She's doing very well in that career. My nephew must have had six or seven jobs since leaving school three years ago. He's now planning to start university this year. The jobs market has very certainly changed a lot since the 90s.

    Let's please remember there are all sorts of other, more interesting things to do than work!

    😇

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 279 Connected

    I left Residential College in Grimsby, Lincolnshire at the end of March 1995, a week before my 19th birthday, and ever since I've almost exclusively done voluntary work, including being sent by the Council on a YTS (Youth Training Scheme) when I first returned to Sheffield, even though at 19 I was legally an adult and therefore too old for a YOUTH training scheme, and I told the Council this at the time. I was proven right as well, I was THE eldest in a roomful of 17 year olds who clearly didn't wanna be there.

  • JennieWren
    JennieWren Online Community Member Posts: 90 Empowering

    I think the jobs market has changed - some for better, some for worse. There’s a lot more legislation than there ever was. Also more people have degrees and so more are staying to do masters, to be more competitive in the jobs market. What has definitely changed is the lack of job centres etc to help find work/training and benefits.

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 279 Connected

    The lack of job centres isn't necessarily a bad thing IMO, trust me I've suffered from the gross incompetence of the DWP at the Job Centre several times over the years.

    I was on Jobseekers in the late 90s, the final straw was being sent for an interview at a Taxi Office in Firth Park, answering the phones, when I got there, they told me the job had already been taken by some 16 year old on New Deal, I was literally like "****?! They did THAT to me AGAIN?!" and marched straight down the Job Centre and told them to shove their poxy £35 a week Dole money up their ****, sideways.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,198 Championing

    I worked at job centre 25 years ago it was highly toxic back then all about meeting targets was over worked umder paid they used to have boards with cards with job descriptions on that was numbered i couldnt even put in order by numbers and used to mix them all up and remember the lady training me refusing to work with me as i dont listen god i couldnt imagine suffering like that again i seen a clip online that job centre doesnt help people jkb search anymore ?

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,198 Championing

    Thinking of all jobs ive done since leaving school lego land card shop river island wilkinson lego big cooperation switch board i kept putting people through to wrong departments job centre ymca nursing homes challenging behaviour unit and was support worker for people with mental health in the community for many years and support worker for people with learning disabilities for many years as well

  • baller
    baller Posts: 20 Connected

    depends what you mean by job

  • luvpink
    luvpink Online Community Member Posts: 3,611 Championing

    It sometimes depends where people live and the types of jobs available.

    I live in a seaside resort where a lot of employment is seasonal, long and strenuos shift patterns with little flexibility to employees and physically demanding.

    Employers here tend to largely take on young employees on minimum wage and who generally tend not to have outside work commitments such as children to consider.

    In the winter people tend to sign on or move elsewhere for employment.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,198 Championing

    And also this new employments right bill that gives people rights from day one my mum lives in Devon says the same years ago she worked in a hotel

  • luvpink
    luvpink Online Community Member Posts: 3,611 Championing

    I haven't heard of a new employment rights bill.

  • baller
    baller Posts: 20 Connected
  • baller
    baller Posts: 20 Connected

    theres 1.8million job seekers an 700,000 jobs

    most people hire people already in work or with experience

    plus those jobs wont be suitable for entry level or teenagers or disabled people they include specialist jobs and skills and crud too