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  1. Just being a bog-standard GP or provincial Solicitor is not enough to put the kids through private school anymore once you've paid the mortgage and bought the fancy car. The more prestigious private schools increasingly look overseas for students. The tinpot ones will increasingly go to the wall or, in some cases, become state academies.
  2. It's taken as read that women 'earn less than men for the same job' but is this true on a 100% life for like basis. Say there's a job that has a pay scale of £15-£25k. Employees tend to start at the bottom and each year they can expect a pay rise of some sort. After a number of years they reach the magical £25k. The nature of the job doesn't change too much although the more experienced staff might have minor increased responsibilities in comparison to a new starter. Bob and Jane both do the job. They started on the same rate and got the same pay rise over the first three years. Jane then had a couple of kids taking full maternity leave for each one, worked part time for a bit, now is full time again - she missed a pay rise or two and the breaks and part time working meant she didn't have the extra responsibilities. Bob did not take a career break and worked throughout, taking a modest pay rise each year and taking on some extra responsibilities. He currently earns about 20% more than jane. Meanwhile, Kathy started at the same time as Bob and had a virtually identical employment record - she earns the same. This seems to be how it works in companies at which I've worked. If it's 100% like for like work and the employees have like for like employment histories they'll get the same.
  3. There's always been career women in professional jobs that have chosen to go back to work after a few months and, with their fat salaries, pay childcare. It doesn't make as much sense for working or lower middle class women as, yes, after the childcare costs, commuting costs, coffee-on-the-run costs, fresh blouse costs, etc. etc. it's hard to make work pay. And the crushing blow is you don't see your kids. The idea of dumping kids in childcare and every woman working is still pretty avant garde and I notice a conflict between 'have it all' feminists and 'organic cotton' women who actually want a mumsy existence instead of sitting in some dull workplace while the kids are cooped up elsewhere. As women are increasingly likely to out-earn their partners nowadays I'm all for men staying at home, or both partners dropping a day each to take on more childcare, with perhaps nursery or child minder a couple of days a week.
  4. Yes, I know lots of 20 and 30 somethings. Skilled working/lower-middle to middle-middle class. Most with degrees and education. They are all about Freecycle/eBay/Gumtree and have little money left after basics due to brutal living costs. Henry Ford knew you needed well paid employees in order to have a market for the emerging consumer goods. You don't need to be a an economist see see that more more in the pockets of normal people will promote all manner of economic activity.
  5. My first graduate job was paid slightly less p/h than the McJob+commission I did part time as a student! I felt really aggrieved at that but thought it would be a stepping stone to something better later on. It wasn't. Today I'm sure those first rung jobs would be done for free by interns. That's all 99.9% of interns are, isn't it? A free worker.
  6. When I attended University in the late 90s, PGCE students nearly all seemed to be graduates from a year or two before who'd discovered that didn't have a hope of getting more than an entry level McJob. The 'low' starting salaries therefore were a big upgrade for them. I expect it's even more like that now.
  7. The post war period saw reconstruction tied to fast-paced technological development see the growth of the skills working and lower middle class like never before, who bought cars, homes, holidays, and consumer widgets an masse for the very first time. Up until that point the majority of the population usually lived in grinding abject poverty. It's very optimistic to think that this historic blip could be sustained forever long after the industrial economy that created it has long since been dismantled and sent to emerging nations. The historical norm is a tiny elite, a slender middle class and poor plebs.
  8. I predicted this a long time ago. As anyone and everyone was going to University and only a tiny few graduates were able to land milk round jobs, students would pile in to Law, medicine and so on leading to a glut. I caught some of the Radio 4 programme - seemed there was an idea that being fleeced for £40k by a law school would land you a trainee position in the profession. It's just another money making scam targeted at young people desperate for a real career in a low-skill, low-wage economy.
  9. There's so much wrongness. Where does the steam go? Where's the ventilation? Won't this be damp as hell in two minutes? Mould and mildew will grow and you'll be breathing in the spores all night. There's probably better places to live in third world shanty towns. I really would love to punch the cynical ******* that thought he could make the bathroom a £410PCM jackpot.
  10. Do you remember the days before EU expansion? Factories had to down tools as there just weren't the staff to bolt the stuff together. Fruit rotted in the fields as lazy locals and camping students refused to pick it. No. I don't remember it either. By making the 'lazy, good for nothing unskilled Brits' argument Cameron may as well hold up a big placard saying, 'F-you - go vote UKIP'.
  11. http://www.zoopla.co.uk/to-rent/details/30884298?more_details_carousel=1_carousel%3D1 Ever been so drunk as a student that you staggered home and pissed in your bedroom? Here it doesn't matter.
  12. My grandfather wanted to do this. My mum wasn't up for it, though. People will always work the system. Especially now as so many working people think they are taxed too much to get nothing back - so they see fiddles such as this as pay back. It reminds me of a teacher who taught in a grammar school who knew the parents driving a Range Rover probably didn't actually live in 'catchment area hook' Basement Flat 1a.
  13. Used to hang out with a few teacher training people at Uni in the late 90s. Not one was a 'vocational teacher' - they'd all pretty much failed to find more than a McJob so came back to do a PGCE. Despite the 'teachers are low paid' mantra these people were pretty happy with the promise of earning much more than they did folding knickers in M&S or temping.
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