denfromoakvillemilton
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More and more recent graduates are having a rough time finding jobs, with just a undergrad degree. It seems like it time to take a look Colleges in Ontario.
http://www.thestar.com/recession/article/627857
http://www.thestar.com/recession/article/627857
In retrospect, their life seemed almost quaint. Lucasz and Angelika Witkowski met in high school, fell in love, got married, bought a house in Orangeville and got a dog they named Nala.
Angelika, 26, was full time on the door line at Chrysler, where her parents still work. Lucasz, 27, made moulds as a machine operator, a skill he learned from his father, who still works in the trade.
They were planning to have children. Then, in March 2008, Angelika was laid off. Lucasz lost his job a month later. That set off a chain of events that still has not ended.
"We were ready to start (a family). Fate said `nope,'" Angelika said. "We were doing everything we were supposed to and it just kind of crashed down."
It crashed down for Huda Assaqqaf, 24, too.
Assaqqaf believed university would bring a stable career. Armed with a food and nutrition degree from Ryerson, she embarked on a job search in 2007 that has yielded nothing but frustration and contract jobs, none of them in her field.
She now works part-time for Access Apartments, co-ordinating personal support workers for people with physical disabilities. "For an office job, it's not very bad."
"It's just that I'm not using my education or my core skills."
This is not what was promised.
Generation Y grew up being told that if they were willing to work and study hard they could have it all: well-paying, fulfilling jobs that provided all the comforts.
But as they reached adulthood, secure jobs began vanishing, replaced by part-time, non-union work with little security, no benefits and odd hours. Then the financial crisis hit. Now, young adults are being forced to radically remake their life plans. They are staying in school longer to keep up with an "educational arms race" and accepting that life will be contract-to-contract, perhaps in different cities, and almost assuredly without benefits.
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