The issue of youth unemployment is not a new one (Young, ambitious and out of work: ‘I’ve gone from Oxford to zero jobs. It’s a bit of a fall’, 11 June). When my husband and I graduated from university in 1980, it took him 18 months to find employment, not in his field of microbiology but as a trainee IT programmer. We were lucky, and that led to a successful long-term career where I had the option of staying at home with the children.
This generation is stuck with fewer opportunities and the need for at least two incomes to create the chance to build a life and a future. I know that grinding sense of despair with each rejection or, worse, the ghosting of an application.
