Rather depressing news

Listening to the news on the way home tonight, they were talking about the latest unemployment figures. Apparently it's the highest it has been for the last 7 years. But of more interest to me was the fact that there are currently less people employed in manufacturing than at any time in the last 170 years. This is truly depressing, I should have trained as a lawyer :-(

Regards Kevin

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Kevin Steele
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I was made redundant from manufacturing nearly 2 years ago, I am now (happily) working in the service industry and earning almost twice as much

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Max

I have to ask, for how long, how civilised is your lifestyle and how shall your babies and my babies and all the babies I may ever have a care for fare?

To add - I have a manufacturing background and I'm a trained professional, now I worry...

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Billy H

What I should have added is I have an ingrained knowledge of the money cycle and it depresses me.

Bank of England and Old Bailey education, even before I went to London. London is nothing new, it remains old things applied new ways.

I recall one man told me they have to think differently. As skills go, so do accounting methods. It's all a vicious circle.

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Billy H

The rules for claiming long-term benefits have just been tightened so that many more people are signing on the unemployment register instead. The government has set an arbitary target of removing 1m from the current total of 2.7m claiming incapacity benfit. They are chiefly targetting claimants in the 50 to 65 year age group.

(kim)

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kim

Train as a plumber and advertise in the lawyers journals. You'll be able to bill at a level that even a lawyer will wince at.

"Satisfaction, or double your sewage back!"

Happy thought, or what?

Cheers Trevor Jones

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Trevor Jones

As long as people keep going on holiday my daughters baby will be fine...... don't know about his babies though

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Max

ISTR that one reason why there are so many people are claiming incapacity benefit is that they were encouraged by a past govenment to do so in order to reduce the unemployment figures

Tim

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Tim Leech

Now that's creative thinking...however, do you really want to spend your working days up to your elbows in a lawyer's crap?

Regards, Tony

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Tony Jeffree

In article , Tony Jeffree writes

Well, many of us working in the commercial sphere do just that...

David

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David Littlewood

At the prices you can charge them, it'd beat all heck out of doing the plumbing in a poor neighborhood. Crap is crap, gold is gold!

It's not, after all, as if you were actually being called upon to clean the lawyer.

Cheers Trevor Jones

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Trevor Jones

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