It's never the fault of Brexit, is it? #GeneralElectionNOW
Aug 6, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
In #Thatcher's era, I moved from Sheffield, one of the worst-hit cities with its steel industry & nearby mines. Queues around the corner for a single job in a record store. Me, an unemployed graduate, with a huge file of job rejection letters. Female graduates encouraged to...2
2... study for "useful" qualifications - 30 or so of us did a secretarial course. I was still unable to get a job afterwards, so pretty much all 30 of us moved to London where secretarial jobs were a-plenty. The contrast between London & bleak, depressed South Yorkshire was...3