Is there a job for everyone

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'.

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!

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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.

@Catherine21

Good morning.

There was a hotel in Torquay years ago based on the tele series Faulty towers.

I'm not sure if any filming ever took place but the hotel took advantage of it looking similar to the one on the tele.

It wasn't very big and it looked old fashioned from outside.

I passed it many times when I lived in Devon.

It seemed to attract the older generation on small coach trips.

It was converted to private flats years ago.