The anxiety of the unemployed - 'We want to work. But jobs are too poorly paid'

i love my job

I don't love mine, but I'm certainly thankful for it.

It is a terribly tough market out there.

I'm 22 and unemployed in the US.

My job shut down. Anyone hiring in the Medford Oregon area?

If you want a job bad enough, you'll take the pay.

Yes I will! Check out Vanguard! Fully automatic America is on!

This is the root of the whole economic situation the world is experiencing now. For too long the race to the bottom by corporations in the pursuit of profits, downsizing buying each other out creating worthless low paying jobs shipping the factory's over seas for more profit and the whole time paying CEO's 500 times more than their lowest paid employees. A new super rich class has been formed and millions exist in poverty. If this is too change, the change is higher wages at the bottom creating a demand side economic society. Or I guess we can just eat the rich.

I'm still surprised at how many people want you to work for free..

we must start our own businesses and build the loyal community model once again!

It is better to have a job than no job..in the world there are not enough jobs for the amount of people living on the planet..and will always be diminishing rather than expanding.
Find a job and stick to it discover that you can cope with almost anything to get you through..be more resourcefull still and create your own job..do not rely on other people to guide you..find your own way..it is your life after all..?

I'm interested in how attitudes and preferences of job choice these days affect whether or not young people are willing to take up jobs they might not enjoy or consider an aid to future career success. Are gone the days of working in order to pay the basics and bills, regardless of how much that person might want to work there? Obviously they aren't because people still hate their jobs, but I do wonder if more people are unemployed today because they choose to be so.

Also are some/many people unemployed and not taking up low-paying jobs because they refuse to alter or lessen their lifestyles of middle class consumer accessibility. This sort of refusal to give up buying dvds by the pound and eating out incessantly is, for many, the exact behavior of denial of one's actual income as opposed to the money actually spent that put many into debt and financial woes even before the economic downturn 'took' their jobs.

low paying/skill jobs are becoming outsourced more and more thus creating unemployment in these areas talked of in the article. Robots are being implemented for efficiency/profit and are not going to keep taking peoples jobs. Plus, a lot of 25-and-unders realize the system doesn't care about them and don't want to work non-satisfying jobs for a slave wage. CURRENTly people are becoming wise and realizing that you should live your life doing something you love to instead of doing tasks that one has no genuine interest in. Once jobs start being created that people actually love or "slave" jobs start earning you a decent wage, ones' work will be much more productive in every way. So the question is; what steps are needed to be taken by the population as a whole to get what the people want and need instead of relying on a few greedy inconsiderate pigs up top to decide what is best for humanity?

I will be unemployed as of Friday. I'm thinking about a life of crime, but the good kind. Sorta like a Robin Hood, but maybe for non-profit organizations instead of individual poor people. They can join me if they want!

Healthcare, people.

And it's just going to get worse what with the graduate market as bad as it is at the minute. Healthcare, teaching, vet.... those are the safe jobs right now.

Do you want fries with that?

In a perfect world all jobs would be fully automated by robots, and we'd have better things to waste our time on...