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As we are sort of sharing family stories.

My son went to Uni to do politics at 19 and spent what I thought was too much time clubbing!

Went from Clubbing to doing part tme leafletting ( he called it marketing!!! ) for a club, got more work there and switched degrees to do Audio engineering, which he supplimented by working in their bar.

Ended up their full time, became Bar Manager, finished his degree, got his own Licence, part time DJ's and does music and has now at 24 taken over as chief sound engineer for the Club.

Helped him buy at falt as it was cheaper than Uni accomodation and have sort of written the deposit off, so he and his partner are going to take on the Mortgage next year when teh deal we got runs out..

Bought in for £120k ( Two bed Southside traditional Tennament!) now worth £150k and they'll only have a £80k mortgage.

Say what you like about Scotland, and yes the SNP constantly saying we get a raw deal, but being able to still do that, as opposed to the stories you hear about people still at home in their thirties in the Southeast and Glasgow is still very much an affordable city.

Peter.

"Sean Thomas
My 20-year-old daughter can’t find a job, and the reason is infuriating
Entry-level work used to be done by our children – now it seems to be given to immigrants"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/19/my-20-year-old-daughter-cant-find-a-job-reason-infuriating/

It's one of those irregular thingies:

My unemployed daughter is priced out of the market by immigrants.
Your unemployed daughter needs to get on her bike.
His unemployed daughter is a bone-idle scrounger.

It can be hard for university students to get work because they're neither at home nor at their place of study all year long. I grew up in the town where I believe Sean T's daughter is at university and even in the 1990s when I worked in a restaurant in the town they employed a lot more local teenagers than university students, presumably because us kids were there all year round. The few female university students they did employ I remember very fondly... I don't think they employed any "immigrants", it was a very monocultural place in those days.
My 20yo daughter isn't allowed to work during term time, and luckily found an internship in London this summer. Finding temp work in the holidays is very tough, but as I say most employers don't want staff who can only work a fraction of the year.

Yes, my lad wasn't allowed to work during term time either and also found an internship in London in the summer after his second year. That internship was his passport to a job after graduation; hopefully your daughter's internship will be equally beneficial to her. A big well done to her for landing it! I know how competitive they can be.

"Sean Thomas
My 20-year-old daughter can’t find a job, and the reason is infuriating
Entry-level work used to be done by our children – now it seems to be given to immigrants"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/19/my-20-year-old-daughter-cant-find-a-job-reason-infuriating/

By coincidence, my calendar's inspirational thought for the day is from PB's Leon. But he might be wrong about his daughter. A lot of entry level work in retail disappeared when high streets were boarded up, in catering when pubs and restaurants closed, and a lot of white collar entry level work has been given to AI (or at least, that's the excuse the PHBs give for not hiring). Tories will add that Labour's job taxes don't help by destroying negative differentials but if the jobs aren't there in the first place...

Assistant Manager at Dominos gets you a skilled worker visa. Other factors may be greater, but this one is real too.

TfL are getting station attendants on work visas because they claim they can't recruit here. I mean, come on.

Not disputing what you say but I thought this had all been tightened up on.

Labour got rid of the "80% of average UK salary" rule, which is a significant tightening.

But there are still too many jobs on the shortage list. I mean, graphic designer.. how can that not be remote?