Bosnia

1) 47%

2)Pretty badly. Everyone's getting fucked though.

3)Hahahahahahaha

Britain

1. 7%

2. See next

3. If you can't get a job it's your own fault. It's called having connections, if you don't make connections in university you wont get a job.

I'll start:
>1. How bad is it in your country?
USA, people say around 20% total unemployed, but its probably significantly worse than that.
>2. How badly are young people getting fucked?
Very bad. Anger and hopelessness seem to be rising.
>3. Is there hope for the future, or do people see shit going totally down the drain?
No hope anytime soon. Seems like gen y and later may lose a good 5,6,7 years waiting idle to start off.

>>4229091
>>4229091
>If you can't get a job it's your own fault

Fuck your shit. In an economy/country that's healthy, sure, that could very well be true. But not now. For example, in the US there are an average of 6.7 applicants for every opening. That's an average. There are going to be fewer applicants for higher end jobs where employers want more experience, and more applicants for the entry-level jobs that youth go into. You can try and have all the connections you like, but you just aren't going to win that kind of numbers game.

Israel

1) 4%. Probably a bit higher though.
2) Quite fucked. Especially when it comes to apartments.
3) Things will always get better.

Can someone explain to me what it actually means to "have connections"? This idea just seems more ludicrous the more I think about it. Does it mean you are going to go work for a friend from college? Have an old professor get you an internship or something?

>>4229134

Didn't stop me getting a job.

In my time at university I befriended an African man who was already a renown documentary film maker in his own country. However he attended a university to get a degree that would be recognised in the western world.

Now I work as a liaison between African film makers and distributes in my country.

1.Very bad. It remains unchanged essentially since 1992.I am from Poland. It is 12% but real figures are around 24-26%.
2.Utterly.
3.There is no hope.

>>4229166

* distributors.

>>4229154

2 people go for a job.

One is more experienced but a stranger. The other is less experienced but known by the employer through the employers friends of co-workers as a reliable worker.

Guess which one gets hired.

>>4229166
That's an incredibly rare case though, and you should feel damn lucky. It doesn't change the simple economics that there are far and away not enough jobs for people, especially entry jobs for youth coming out of college. Connections don't beat raw numbers. If an employer is not willing to hire his star employee's bff from uni, well, youre fucked. The problem is in the system, not in people being anti-social

Just leaving this here.

ITT: Employed trying to convince people that "it's all about connections" and to just "get off your couch, stop playing xbox, and you'll get a job", whilst ignoring that job levels for college grads are at depression levels, and that there will not be enough jobs for everybody even if EVERYBODY got the perfect degree, perfect connections, and perfect experience for their particular application. It's math.

>>4229239

Well then, it's their fault for not seizing their destiny and doing something about it. I have no sympathy for them.

>>4229261
>it's their fault for not seizing their destiny and doing something about it.
How about re-run of 1917?

People employed by 2008 are safe but people who began job searching after that are fucked and still are whether it was just a high school graduate or higher

> 2011
> Not realising that there are millions of ways to make money.

I am an unemployed TV technician.

I buy cars for nothing, strip them down then sell the parts for a profit. I get this money on top of welfare.

>>4229261
I'm a libertarian. I believe in the free market. I'm supporting Ron Paul in the 2012 elections. And I'm saying, fuck off. You'll be singing differently once your little Africa project dries up.

>>4229091
>3. If you can't get a job it's your own fault. It's called having connections, if you don't make connections in university you wont get a job.

lawl what, have you seen the sort of people going to uni these days? unless you're at Oxford you are fucked and just pissed away £50k on a piece of useless paper.

Norway
1. Not bad 3.3%

2. Not at all, if you want a job, you'll get a job.

3. From our perspective it can only go down from here, but most of us are pretty optimistic about the future.

Africa = in constant civil war
Arabs = have reached civil war war levels.
Euromericans = getting there.

Once you reach a certain amount of unemployment revolution is unavoidable.

1. Easily around 20%. They actually don't count persons in part time positions or those who have quit looking.
2. I think it's actually more difficult for older people. Chances are the younger person will get the job because they can pay him/her much less. But yeah, it's still pretty tough out there.
3. All the people I know who didn't go to college are making good money. Forget the college crap and learn a useful trade or work your way up somewhere.

If you can't find a job make a job

in the U.S. Army, fix the military version of the bell 206 for a living (insert RC helicopter joke here) and am paid in college money, bad food, and sand.

was talking to the lifeflight (civilian medivac) pilots and medics on saturday, and secured a job offer (80k a year starting) doing basic scheduled maintenance at a small town airport. a few weeks before that i recieved a call from germany (where i'm moving when i get out of the army) with an offer to advise and assist on film sets with firearms scenes making the equivalent pay (50k E a year) based on my fiance schooling up the firearms advisor on the last film set she was working on on the operation, breakdown, and technical stats of the yugoslav M76 and telling him i'd taught her.

It's partially about "who you know" but not in the sense of people you're friends with or related to. its more about the contacts that you yourself make and your qualifications.

Japan's had this problem since the 90's recession. Those college grads who couldn't find a real career are foreveruunemployeds

Police and Army.

There's two jobs that don't turn people down unless you're a massive tard and you need no experience.

>>4229385

Police requires a college degree. And the army regularly turns down people especially with the amount of unemployed minions flocking to it.

REAL question. How do we FIX this problem.

>>4229404
make the middle class wealthy again, stop letting the trickle up flow into the top 0.1% of the population.

I personally believe we are seeing a form of an economic evolution. There just isn't a need for as many manned job positions as before. Especially with downsizing and automation coming into play.

>>4229398

> Police requires a college degree.

Only if you want to be someone high up.
Beat cops don't need an education, they just need to be law-abiding.

I'm currently at college and work part time as a community support officer. Which is the lowest thing you can be.

>>4229419
and do this how? Raising taxes alone won't give them jobs, government created jobs were never profitable that's why they stopped the Gulags.

We need a method to give people self sustaining taxable jobs and real (sustainable) growth.

>>4229427

I live in a small town and our local PD requires at least an associates degree.

>>4229385
In the UK 20% of the police force is being fired, similar with the military.

>>4229434

Maybe living in a small town is why you can't find a job.

>>4229439

Like they're going to fire any police after the riots.

>>4229440

I think quite the opposite. Imagine a corporate job position in a big city where you have half the city applying for it.

>>4229439
See that's funny because there already incredibly inept.

1. Australia. Its much worse than it is officially.
2. It's a complete fucking , if you are young and Australian getting a job is getting harder and harder because immigrants are literally taking der jerbs.
3. Its totally going down the drain unless they kick out every single immigrant.

inb4 aussie leftist abuse.

>>4229426
not this karl marx shit again. No there isn't a need for our old jobs cause we outsourced them to China. Someone must still runa dn engineer these automated systems and that USED to be us.

How about this. massive tariffs on non-first world countries. let them evolve on their own and we care for ourselves.

Illegal immigrants basically take the shit jobs like cleaning toilets. I honestly think they have little impact on the current unemployment situation.

I can see all kinds of things happening if this situation doesn't improve and fast. For the people who currently run the world, the middle aged breadwinners, it's hard, but not nearly as hard as what's hitting recent college grads. 1 out of 2 are unemployed. That's probably understating things, since they stop counting you if you are a "discouraged" worker, aka you're so demoralized you've just given up. That happens a lot nowadays.

With such a mass of people unemployed, shits gonna happen. Revolutions, alternative economies, alternative currencies, etc. People have to find a way to survive somehow, and they will do it. I do believe we are going through a period of great change, for better or worse, I don't know.

>>4229433
off the top of my head we could have wages inside a company linked, so the CEO can only make x amount more than the lowest payed person in the company, then we the company does well or poorly everybody's wages moves together.

Or more heavily tax larger companies and no or fewer taxes on small start ups, so we have thousands of small to medium sized business competing instead of 1 or 2 in a monopoly.

>>4229467
most cant find a job doing THAT anymore. when unemployment is 20% cleaning toilets is better then living under a bridge.

>>4229475
Japan does that. I'm okay with it. It forces them to reinvest int he company instead of keeping cash reserves.

>>4229459

You can also thank the greedy unions and workers for this as well.

>>4229467
>>4229467
Well guess what in Australia you want a cleaning job. Too bad you can't they are all contracted out to freshly arrived immigrants who guard these contracts along ethnic lines. They are all korean or phillipino cleaning crews.
I knew a phillipino that landed a job literally less than a week into being in the country.
Its the same for other areas. IT? forget about it full of indians that favour other indians.

>>4229465
I agree with this.

Germany
1. about 7% in general. Southern Germany has about 3.5 to 3.9%, West and North about 6%, East about 10% and Berlin 13.3%
2. We have 2 unemployment systems. One is intended to make sure you don't get fucked too hard immediately after you've lost your job. The state pays between 60 and 70% (don't know the exact numbers) of your former income for 12 months. In order to get this though you have to have worked for 24 months and you have to proof that you are looking for a new job (you have to apply for 5 jobs a month minimum). Then after 12 months there is Hartz IV. You get about 345€ a month. The state pays for your apartment, but they decide where you live. From time to time you have to do some job trainings and mini-jobs in order to keep your money etc. If you fail to do so you get fined, for example 1 month only 200€ or 1 month no money at all etc.
Problem with Hartz IV is that you have to accept EVERY job you're offered. So let's say you studied economics and you have a MA, if you're unlucky you HAVE to work at McDonald's for 5€ an hour. A lot of people prefer to be fined than to work as a toilet cleaner etc.
3. At the moment it's fine, but in future we'll see a big gap between those with jobs and unemployed. Statistics say that once you're in HartzIV you're basically fucked. It's some kind of Vicious Circle. You get Hartz IV because you're unemployed and you're unemployed because you get HartzIV.

>>4229600
Hartz 4 lol sounds like a stazi gulag.

1.) New Zealand.
2.) Fucked to the walls. Prices are going up for food, wages going lower... Tax higher for poor tax cuts for the rich its like Ragan in NZ.
3.) Depends if we break way from West and the Americunts we will have one...

>>4229091
You have no idea. You sliver spoon faggot. Yes I have a job.

>>4229608
I can't imagine how fucked kiwis are if Aus is fucked. You guys must really be fucked.

>>4229239
>Employed trying to convince people that "it's all about connections"

Employedfag here. Not at all.

I know that feel. Fuck the west. Fuck the debit. Guaranteed jobs for all, lower crime increase prosperity.

>>4229605
Well some people say it also feels like one.
Others are proud to get it and that they don't do shit.
The phrase "Hartz 4 bezahlt mein Bier!" ("Hartz 4 (pronunced like fear) pays my beer") is pretty famous in Berlin.

>mfw people who are lucky/privileged enough to have/make employment connections insist that this means other people are not trying hard enough

>there is no face for my face

1) Argentina, 7%
2) They do pretty good
3) There is hope, but it's possibly unfounded. I'm betting on going up at some point, but things are good enough here right now that I've met two spaniards youunger than myself waiting tables.

>>4229630
In Australia I started to feel really like i was under socialist boot heel in our welfare system. I don't think its that bad but it started to get really depressing and the last welfare officer i had assigned to me freaked me out. He was just as desperate as an unemployed person and I was in danger of getting into a huge amount of shit because thats just the sort of stazi cunt who will report preceived "criminal" actions on behalf of the government.
So I cut my welfare and the welfare system still acts like i'm apart of it. Thats the feeling of the state owning you for taking their money which i hate most of all.

>>4229615
Well I am now working and considering taking up Ccards and Dumpz like the 2nd worldfags on IRC so I can get enough to live...

The world is truly fucked, in the year 2011 and we consider it an achievement/privilege just to have a job. I cant wait until the robots and super smart AI take over.

>>4229330
As a emigrant with fluent English, but no Norwegian, how easy would it be for me to get a job in Norway? I am thinking of any basic one-for example in McDonalds or cleaning houses?
Pole here with two uni degrees and unemployed since 3 years.

>>4229675

And they would keep you around because of what? Or are you just waiting to be exterminated?

>>4229615

It is , going to be interesting to see the tales people take home after the RWC. I went to UK/Europe/Oz last year, Living expenses in NZ are horrendous and the pay is poor.

>>4229683

Unless he was high-tier society he would just be considered an invalid.

>>4229683
I am a computer AI.

>>4229702
I accept your rule AI. Better AI's than fat humans from corps.

>>4229700
well I just came back from northern europe and everything is so fucking cheap compared to Aus. Even with the Euro being better than the AUD. Youth employment is also easy as they have programs to get young people straight into work that actually do get them into work. Unlike the Australian job iniatives that just steal goverment money and do nothing.
We are being fucked so hard here its not funny.

1. Pretty bad, scum can't jobs like they used to

2. Depends if you chose a useless major or not

3. Fuck, even I don't know this one, our economy was inflated, a lot of people (i.e. scum) were living off fake money. This recession has forced us to cut back, a lot of people can't come to terms with it.

>>4229710
you will be well treated, you will not have to clean my robot toilet.

>>4229701
>Unless he was high-tier society he would just be considered an invalid.
Like how humans only keep high-tier society cows, cats, apes ect..

Venezuela

1- Unemployement is "apparently" under the 8% but at least 40% of the population are in the informal sector (me included)

2- Most of young people in the middle class (me included) are not really in a bad situation, we can get a decent job as long as they have a basic degree. Lately there have been a lot of scholar desertion among kids in the lower class and many of them will end directly going into the informal sector, working for the gov. or becoming criminals

3- Do I think there is hope?, I dunno it all depends of the next elections If Hugo Chavez stays he just will keep fucking with private sector and making things more difficult for the common citizen, the oppsition doesn`t really seems to have a clear plan about what to do after 2012, and if Chavez dies in the middle of a new term, God help us, many of the loonies that follow him will probably make things worse.