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Originally Posted by jet
I don't recall many young people of my generation, the 70's, 80's and through to the 90's being abe to afford a house either until they were well established in their careers or got married and bought a house with their shared incomes.
I think young people feel the need to leave the parental home a lot earlier too than they did in previous generations, before they have advanced in their jobs and have financial stability and savings.
It's odd, but all the young people I know who are friends of my daughter or sons who didn't go to uni got a better start going straight into an apprenticeship or job than those who went to uni - many of those feel they wasted years and came out to an over crowded job market and are unemployed whereas the ones who didn't are already well established in their jobs, have experience and are earning pretty good to very good wages.
So from what I've seen, many degrees are fairly useless and employers want actual work experience and these students are years behind in that.
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Excellent post Jet and completely correct.