Capitalists say the system is working as it should. The poor are civilization’s crumple zone and air bags. They get destroyed in the event of a crash to protect the (rich) drivers.
I’ve been unemployed since November… of 2024. The job market is the worst in which I have tried to find a job in the over 15 years I have had a full time job.
You know it’s pretty bad when you can’t even find TEMP/CONTRACT jobs!
I know the feeling yet I am about to quit one work from home job for another. Already got the computer ship to me and I have send the another one back. Guess getting my insurance license paid off. Because the new company reached out to me after seeing my resume on Monster. I also been getting hits on Indeed. But anything outside of insurance just not seeing any jobs. And I mean nothing not even temp. Gives me anxiety. Because though I have good paying jobs and plenty offers there all in a feild thought I would like but now hate. But now I am trapped.
I’ve been in software development for over 26 years now, and I’ve been unemployed going on 6 months, without a single interview, even though I apply for multiple listings a day. I’ve got enough savings to be ok for quite a while yet, and am bringing in a little bit of income from my woodworking hobby, but I am starting to get worried. I have no idea how those without the same kind of safety net as me are handling this, but it can’t be good.
I’ve only been in my field for about 14 years now. I’m afraid it isn’t the right time to look, so I’m holding on to my job for the life of me.
I feel that. I have plenty to coast for a long time, I could start a vintage electronics repair biz but I fear dealing with people and their fickle unrealistic expectations.
I can’t comment about anywhere else, but the UK job market broke down pre-COVID.
Post-COVID it has gotten even worse as even more skills are automated. About the only job sectors actively recruiting are the NHS (primarily nurses), STEM teachers (primary/secondary), retail, and hospitality.
They’re all high stress with a comparatively low wage - the latter 2 tend not to pay living wages and also tend to be “shift work” (i.e. 0 hour contracts).
For those of us holding other jobs, this market has led to wage squeezes and a sharp decline in working conditions. Most folks have taken an effective pay cut, and workload models are squeezing more tasks into each role.
Overall, it’s a clusterfuck of epic proportions.
I have a friend in Edinburgh who has been out of work since last June. He is getting desperate.
At the end of the day, it’s always the fucking suits who get the most of the cake.
Turns out deporting a bunch of people with a different shade of skin or a different accent didn’t make everyone left behind richer.
All the money still goes to the multinational corporations who don’t pay their taxes, the CEOs who are shielded from taxes, the shareholders who pay less taxes and the private equity investors who borrow big to buy companies then somehow magically transfer that debt to the company, and who also get a big tax discount compared to those of us who earn our money.
Turns out it was never the immigrants making Americans poor in the first place. Who knew?!
Is that backed up by statistics or just vibes?
COVID saw unemployment peak at 15%. I haven’t seen anything remotely that bad.
Try reading the article.
(not who you’re replying to) I read the beginning of the article, it seemed it was going off subjective information. “It feels worse”. I tried to go back and got pay walled, so unfortunately I couldn’t read it. What information are you suggesting they missed out on? They’re asking for objective data, which is totally fair
The article is literally about workers’ opinions based on conducted polls, so the title is accurate. Whether or not these agree with labor statistics collected by an increasingly dubious government is a different subject.
Paywalled
It’s been bad for a long time the gaslighting is just not working. Homeless crisisis don’t happen in great job markets so yea it’s starting to look like guillotine thirty
Just like we need to talk on about non-market housing for the housing crisis, maybe we need to start talking about non-market employment (worker owned cooperatives).
Can we pleeeaaase have US news in a US news sublemmy. This is not world news.
Europe job market is fine.
There’s quite literally a community called WorldNews. This didn’t fit there.
Huh, well, I guess my bad.
Thats what I like about Lemmy. People admit they were wrong and move on. This kind of exchange would never occur on Reddit.
I apologize if I came off aggressive. I was not fully caffeinated and was still half asleep.
Don’t overthink. You were straight to the point without any emotion :D
