Apart from a brief period in the eighties and nineties it was always hard getting on the property ladder. What is happening today is more like going back to the fifties and sixties.

I'm not saying it's a good thing but hopefully young people will learn how to save for what they want rather than instant gratification.

I'm more concerned about the fall out from the virus on jobs and the devastation that new technology is going to do on jobs and careers.

When I was growing up my mum rammed it into my head get a job in a bank it's a good career and you will get a cheap mortgage. All of which turned out to be true.

However if I was an 18yo today my concern is what if I pick the wrong career. They could end up wasting a lot of time and effort on job qualifications only to find that 5-10 years from now it's all automated.

The one growth area I have noticed is in Home Improvements. I would tell any youngster if you don't like working in an office become a "handyman".

Back in the sixties most blokes worked with their hands and so could also do a bit of painting and decorating maybe even put up shelves and basic plumbing.

Today those skills sets are in short supply I would rather pay a little man than do the job badly myself. This is one area where young people should explore I don't see it changing anytime soon.

Edited by Badger11 (25 Aug 2020 7.46am)

Have to agree the kids have it a lot easier than we did, even if they do buy a place it is mostly ready to live in, no stripping walls and replacing old rotten skirting, they think borrowing as much as they can is the way forward, and also the importance placed in owning, is overblown, if you get a good deal renting thats just as good, in Germany they all rent and spend half the year in Gran Canaria on the beach!

I wouldn’t agree kids have it easier than in the past. Each generation has its unique challenges like War, rationing, social unrest, recessions, supporting an increasingly elderly population, social media, normalisation of p***.graphy, automation of jobs etc.

There’s no easy pass. Take my mum’s generation where many have gold plated pensions and it all looks pretty rosy now. They all grew up with rationing and foreign holidays were in the main unheard of. Equally eating out just wasn’t done. Living conditions were s***e and if your parents reached 70 they’d done well.

Equally the kids now, tough times. Incredible pressure an academic achievement and neglect of other social progression which would arguable serve them better. Clearly mental health has deteriorated rapidly over the last decade. Cyber bullying, constant social media judgment, confusion over gender roles, house prices out of reach and only another season of prosaic Hodg-ball to look forward too. Don’t get me wrong, they have a better quality of life than ever by some measures. And on the whole women are hotter and more sexually liberated than ever. So it’s not all bad.

Don’t play the victim
Get on with people
Work hard
Work smart
Invest a percentage of your earnings into appreciating assets
Never buy a new/flash car
Get on the property market ASAP
Avoid hookers/drugs/too much drink

Do the above and you will be fine, regardless of the system.

I did everything except the last one.

Trouble is that most robots are painted white I expect we would have to have a diversity discussion on that. Also as they are computers we better not use the term slave and master.