Spain unemployment now 5m (22.8%), Highest in industrialised world.

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sethnintendo said:

Troll_Whisperer said:

 

But mostly it's just a personal thing. I come from a working class family in Spain and my mum had no money to afford a flat so we were living with my grandma (after getting two degrees and a masters my mum finally got a good job and she's saving a lot now, but she works in Central America and has no flat in Spain).

Looks like it is pretty tough job market there if having 2 degrees and a masters results in being stuck in crappy jobs still.  At least she finally got a good job like you said but I find it almost the same situation over here.  The unemployment went up so high in USA so quickly that a lot of people with tons of experience were applying for the same basic low paying jobs as I was going for (during my 6 months of unemployment).  Basically you have people with bachelors degrees working at McDonalds now in the USA.  At least they can be counted as employed by the government right?  You might have a shit job but if you are employed then everything is A okay right?  Wrong

Problem with America is that a lot of good paying jobs are now gone for good (or at least a decent amount of years).  The main thing left now is shit jobs.

It's probably a worldwide problem, though I think it's much worse in Spain than in the US. Outside of services (shops, bars, hotels) and housing there is little else. Many skilled people here are leaving to America and Germany, after finding that their degree is useless in a society that wasn't built around quality jobs.