canadianenglish wrote:
Personally, I fear for the direction of the UK's economy in particular. As a nation we have sold off or sourced out much of our industry (the lifesblood and foundation of any economy), lost nearly all our agricultural sector and seem to be shaping into a nation that is reliant on tertiary occupation. IT and office jobs with a small retail sector to serve those fortuante to have paychecks. Unless you do a degree in an administrative field, with the current cutbacks being readily utilized nationwide and the government offering no stimulus for entrepreneurs, the future seems fairly bleak for both young and old.
I hear what your saying about the UK losing all its own sustainability, and how outsourcing everything is worrying for the future.
However the UK couldn't hope to compete with manufacturing and agricultural prices the rest of the world can offer. The cost of living would require wages so high for these services it would impact the cost of the final product so much, it wouldn't even be worth trying if you could.
Anyway thats a little off topic from the OP's dilemma. In regards to everyone saying perhaps they should just take anything they can get, if it means being able to eat and meet rent well then thats obvious. But I didn't get the impression people were quite at that stage, only disgruntled at being unable to get a position in there qualified field.
I don't want to offend anyone who is in the service industry, but if you are a highly qualified young professional working in such places will do nothing to help your resume or your future career. I'd recommend doing anything even slightly related to your field, temp and contract work is obvious, craigslist also has people requesting services even if its only a few hours, and dare I say it even consider doing free work just to put it on your resume!
If you can do this while holding down a job not in your desired field I commend you, but from what I've seen this doesn't often happen.
