Unemployed Teens

"It's an urgent situation. We can't leave these young people out there. We need to shift workers with low skills into the middle-skilled category."

The catch cry is at work, at school or in training. A lot of young people have not really engaged in any of those things and have expected to be carried. So there will be some hard lessons for the indulged. Parents won't be able to carry them, schools will be demanding to know why they are not there, training will be dropped if they cannot turn up and jobs will off load those who make it too hard. The guy who did my roof last year told me he had been through 34 apprentices before he got the lovely lad he had with him at my place. He said they kept calling in sick or rolling up late or doing a half baked job. He just could not rely on them. The one he had with him was friendly, hard working and yes, a lad. Bit slack but learning and very genuine. The local supermarket is going mental because it is employing one girl who turns up randomly for her shifts, one boy who doesn't turn up and then another girl who takes very long breaks. So the pressure is on and small supermarkets talk. You know how hard it is for employers out there. So Yes, we need to insist young ones take some of this weight and grow up and do what they need to do. At the moment adults will need jobs to keep the mortgages going and their families fed so I'd say the kids need to be at school or in training so we have people who do have skills. They also need to be shown how they can make the most of their talents and skills and they need to learn skills we can use and they can contribute. It is about sharing the wear because times have changed and everyone has to put in and we all need to be doing our bit.