Life

[rank and file]

It’s true, we aren’t allowed to express our own personal opinions. However making students consciously aware of issues impacting biodiversity such as climate change by presenting sound evidence and facts is addressed in the curriculum - go on the school standards and curriculum (SCSA) website and see for yourself before making such assertions, hipster boy.

I get the feeling you weren’t very good at school. Just another failure who likes to blame their own shortfalls and lack of achievement in life on everyone but themselves, including teachers. Good luck with that. World always needs more baristas and retail assistants

Nice one.Good to see you see you have a good grasp of the English language.

 

[perthblue]

“What was once before you - an exciting, mysterious future - is now behind you. Lived; understood; disappointing. You realize you are not special. You have struggled into existence, and are now slipping silently out of it. This is everyone's experience. Every single one. The specifics hardly matter. Everyone's everyone. So you are Adele, Hazel, Claire, Olive. You are Ellen. All her meager sadnesses are yours; all her loneliness; the gray, straw-like hair; her red raw hands. It's yours. It is time for you to understand this.

Walk.

As the people who adore you stop adoring you; as they die; as they move on; as you shed them; as you shed your beauty; your youth; as the world forgets you; as you recognize your transience; as you begin to lose your characteristics one by one; as you learn there is no-one watching you, and there never was, you think only about driving - not coming from any place; not arriving any place. Just driving, counting off time. Now you are here, at 7:43. Now you are here, at 7:44. Now you are...

Gone. “

 

[perthblue]

“ Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won't know for twenty years. And you may never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And they say there is no fate, but there is: it's what you create. And even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are only here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to but it doesn't really. And so you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope that something good will come along. Something to make you feel connected, something to make you feel whole, something to make you feel loved. And the truth is I feel so angry, and the truth is I feel so ****ing sad, and the truth is I've felt so ****ing hurt for so ****ing long and for just as long I've been pretending I'm OK, just to get along, just for, I don't know why, maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own. Well, **** everybody. Amen.”

 

[revo333]

That young couple that posts a picture on Facebook standing next to a 'sold' sign to get its 15 minutes of attention are in for a lifetime of pain.

 

[kickazz]

No matter your opinion, the numbers back up OP's point.

In the West, returns on capital have been significantly outstripping wage growth for some time now.
People with money are making more money, and more and more they are turning either overseas for cheaper work (it should be noted this is a great thing for those countries) or to contract, casual 'gig' workers to meet their labour requirements. The gap between rich and poor is growing.

Uber, Airbnb and the like are also seeing people with capital (vehicle, property) being favoured over workers again (bye bye hotel staff). We have a mature economy with a lot of banked wealth. Generation or so ago we were still nation building and needed workers, and offered them good job security for it.

Not everyone has it in them to be an entrepreneur, but many people with initiative and a good honest work ethic will find it harder to get secure work. And in professional circles, there are many cases where you'll be doing unpaid overtime to pick up the shortfall from outsourced workers who are well meaning but just simply not as good as workers from a mature market. The management class are under ever increasing pressure to meet short term targets unfortunately.

All this said, whatever wage you can scrape together is still a fortune when compared on a global scale. Unfortunately it all gets sucked up in rent, mortgage, bills and taxes. Even choosing to live a modest life in this country can be expensive. I do note the observation about moving to regional centres to ease the squeeze, I think our population is too Metro heavy.

This time and place is still about as good as ever to live, but it can be tough if you don't have capital behind you, especially if you pitch your dreams alongside those of your peers who do.

On the contrary, if you live in the West, and have some capital behind you, you truly are laughing. Good luck to those people, especially those who have a bit of humility about it all. Our lot is determined by both out decisions and efforts, but also a fair bit of luck.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

I have a manual job and no ****ing way would I want to still be doing it 20-30 years from (or even 2 years from now really). One of my coworkers is in their 50s and has had surgery on both shoulders. ****ing Christ surely when it gets to that point you move onto something else. Easier said than done though when you get to the age where employers don't want to ****ing touch you.

 

[ioppolo]

That young couple that posts a picture on Facebook standing next to a 'sold' sign to get its 15 minutes of attention are in for a lifetime of pain.

Not necessarily

 

[class78]

It’s true, we aren’t allowed to express our own personal opinions. However making students consciously aware of issues impacting biodiversity such as climate change by presenting sound evidence and facts is addressed in the curriculum - go on the school standards and curriculum (SCSA) website and see for yourself before making such assertions, hipster boy.

I get the feeling you weren’t very good at school. Just another failure who likes to blame their own shortfalls and lack of achievement in life on everyone but themselves, including teachers. Good luck with that. World always needs more baristas and retail assistants

lol are you that insecure about your job that you need to put down baristas and retail assistants to feel important?

 

[ioppolo]

Dat pigeonholing tho

 

[Gough]

I have a manual job and no ******* way would I want to still be doing it 20-30 years from (or even 2 years from now really). One of my coworkers is in their 50s and has had surgery on both shoulders. ******* Christ surely when it gets to that point you move onto something else. Easier said than done though when you get to the age where employers don't want to ******* touch you.

Mate of mine's brother in law has just gone off the tools, he was a refrigeration engineer. He's lost a bundle of weight too because he's not stopping off at Maccas and bakeries between jobs.

 

[Chief]

I have a manual job and no ******* way would I want to still be doing it 20-30 years from (or even 2 years from now really). One of my coworkers is in their 50s and has had surgery on both shoulders. ******* Christ surely when it gets to that point you move onto something else. Easier said than done though when you get to the age where employers don't want to ******* touch you.

Which is why it is ridiculous to see LNP plumping for an increase in the retirement age.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Which is why it is ridiculous to see LNP plumping for an increase in the retirement age.

Making people work to 70 = important

Climate change = lel

 

[JackOutback]

If im still in an office, I reckon I could handle working until I'm 67 or 70, provided I live to 90 something. On a building site? **** that.

 

[Silent Alarm]

lol are you that insecure about your job that you need to put down baristas and retail assistants to feel important?

The irony of someone who works in a field where the uni requirements are ludicrously low, calling someone else dumb is a bit unreal.

 

[Gralin]

The issue is that rent really isn’t as cheap as it was in 2003 and jobs are harder to get. The idea of four people paying $80 and living in an area that allows you to get into the city easily or have mates over is rare: you’re going to be giving half your income to rent or else working a job that doesn’t allow you get pissed that much.

You do realise in 2003 people also got paid less right?

 

[JackOutback]

You do realise in 2003 people also got paid less right?

To be fair, wage growth hasn't really kept up with property growth.

 

[Cruyff14]

To be fair, wage growth hasn't really kept up with property growth.

Yes, correct.

 

[MWPP]

To be fair, wage growth hasn't really kept up with property growth.

Yes, correct.

In Perth (where the OP is from/currently lives) , wage growth has exceeded property growth over the last few years

 

[Gralin]

To be fair, wage growth hasn't really kept up with property growth.

Yes I know and the gap may have widened from 15 years ago but having to make choices about how you spend your money and where you live isn't anything new.
OP acting like every 22 yo throughout history up until now had it all

 

[JackOutback]

In Perth (where the OP is from/currently lives) , wage growth has exceeded property growth over the last few years

Only after property growth smashed wages growth for a decade.

Yes I know and the gap may have widened from 15 years ago but having to make choices about how you spend your money and where you live isn't anything new.
OP acting like every 22 yo throughout history up until now had it all

Absolutely, I pointed out earlier that Perth is finally affordable again unless you want something flashy straight away. Our first home was a shitbox.

 

[edgie]

Your house had an attic!

Sent from mTalk

 

[JackOutback]

Your house had an attic!

Sent from mTalk

My current house has an attic (that we built into the roof space). The first house was a 3x1 in an average suburb. Not gonna lie, we benefited from some property growth but a couple of years too late for the real boom. And our current house hasn't changed much in value for a while but it doesn't matter because we're not planning to sell.

 

[Gralin]

Only after property growth smashed wages growth for a decade.


Absolutely, I pointed out earlier that Perth is finally affordable again unless you want something flashy straight away. Our first home was a shitbox.

SA lives in Melbourne though, it's not Sydney bad for renting or buying but it's up there.

We're in a shitty old house 40kms out of town and I work in the CBD, we wouldn't even be able to afford this place now with how much prices have gone up in the past three years.

It's pretty grim how far out you might have to go to afford a place to buy soon

 

[JackOutback]

SA is back in WA, no?

 

[Gough]

It's gentrification too. I lived in a federation era cottage in a share house a block from King William Rd in Hyde Park (Croweater's imagined territory) in the early 90s that hadn't been touched since the 50s, it had a lean to at the back for a kitchen and it still had the out side can in the back yard, it was about $50 a week shared among three at the time. I went past it a while back and someone has bought it, done it up and there'd be no change out of a million bucks for it now.