The Politics/Religion/Conspiracies Deathmatch Thread

[The Dunster]

See, the real problem I have is the use of the term 'shit job', as if it's 'below' some people to work jobs their fancy bits of paper tell them they don't deserve.

These are the same people that look down their nose at Gerry Harvey the door to door vacuum salesman but would grovel at the feet of Gerry Harvey the billionaire even though Harvey is the same bloke doing the same job.

I have zero ****ing pity for those people and tend to find them the most miserable because they somehow feel they deserve more.

And if hard work skill and productivity mean nowt then I must be the luckiest son of a bitch alive and not even realise.

You don't have a clue.

Unemployment and underemployment are due to insufficient aggregate demand.
It has nothing to do with people being snobbish about the types of jobs they accept.
The problem is that HR types flag anyone that takes a lesser job as either being inferior or indeed lazy and not wanting to progress.
That's why the job is shit. Not because one form of emplyment is better or worse in my eyes.
Often it is better to be unemployed than tarnish your reputation [in the eyes of HR types]
I retired over twelve years ago from academia. If I wanted to go back I could very easily do so.
However, were it to be known I had worked in lesser emplyments nobody would touch me with a bargepole.
I'd be better off saying I been on holidays for over a decade.
The other problem is that a lot of people are forced to obtain degrees to gain emplyoment that doesn't require a degree.
Alternatively, a lot of people hold offices they don't have the correct training for but are gifted the role due to little more than breeding.
I look down at Gerry Harvey not because he sold vaccums I do it because he's a hypocrite. The seeling vaccums is something to be proud of
On one hand he wants people to buy Australian and on the other he's in Bed with Italian / Chinese manufacturers and lobbying the government to allow him to bring in foreign labour that he can pay less than award conditions would otherwise allow.
If Harvey is your hero you have set the bar very low indeed.
For the record I don't have anytime for people with masters degrees unless they did so after obtaining first class honours in a relevant degree.
With respect to PhD's I know what it's like and have a lot of respect for anyone that's has done the grind even if I disagree with them.
There is nothing more rigorous, mentally and or emotionally taxing than completing your doctorate.
Those that do it and keep a marriage and family together are miracle workers. It ain't easy like you seem to assume.