I just saw the picture representing you on the BBC3 website for your show...I am so sorry Greg James.

I have just watched your programme. I am a Connexions adviser, a careers adviser for 13-19 year olds and was dismayed that Connexions was not mentioned once! We are the job centre for 16-19 year olds( up to 24 year olds with Special Needs)And guess what? I am very likely going to be made redundant in April, my Connexions centre will be closing and there will not be the same level of support to unemployed young people at at time when you quite rightly point out it is harder than ever for them to find work. It is happening all over the country.The governemnt seems determined to right off a whole generation of young people.

I just watched your show on BBC three; young, jobless and living at home. The show covered a number of individual situations. My situation is not too disimiliar. I left my A levels before completing and went straight in to full time work. Although I was sucessful and worked up the ladder my job just didn't fulfil me, so I decided to return to uni at the beginning of the recession. I am studying Architecture in London and as I am completely dependant I fear what my future holds with the current job prospects in this field. When I leave my debts will be in excess of 30,000 pounds and a 2,000 overdraft. If I can't find work immediately I will risk everything. This is very worrying as I have already had issues finding work as a student even with a vast work experience at different levels. The future is very unsteady and I often question whether leaving a well paid job to follow my dream was a good choice.

I am so glad someone has FINALLY made a documentary like this!! I was almost ready to go out with my video camera and make it myself! Absolutely fantastic documentary, it shows how bad things are for students and young people in the UK right now. The way people described how they felt in the show totally represents how almost all young people in the same situation feel. It was a mirror image example like i was watching myself. I agree one hundred percent with what they were saying. I am a soon to be University leaver and the comment in the show about the 'conveyor belt' stuck with me. It really does feel like the road of ambition ends, you are by yourself, in debt and no better off, even my careers adviser told us not to bother applying for jobs because the reality of actually getting paid work was so low. No matter if you go to University or not we all end up in the same boat - the jobless one! Something really has to change. Unfortunately i 'bought into' the idea that if i stayed in education for seven years, some good would come of it, but all i'm left with is a massive debt, and no further job prospects than when i started. Given my time again i would not bother and wouldn't recommend anyone going to university. It was an expensive waste of time. There was no such thing as a recession when I started and the job situation has just got worse. I know many people who are on Job seekers allowance and wait around until twelve to go shopping. Something really does have to change, it really does! People have to realize how hard it is for young people today, they need to wake up!

I am a qualified chemistry graduate who graduated in 1993 with sandwich placement experience and there is nothing out there once you leave HE.



It was heartwarming to see others in the same boat as me, if a little younger in age. There are no wrong or right answers in this situation and very little help. It does not help with the closure of Pfizer in Kent this week and big mergers of pharma.

I was in their position half a year ago, sleeping pattern went out the window because when i was on the dole i felt to have no reason to get up, Luckily i managed to find a temp job through a agency, then a job through a friend.



Now i am in a job for 4 months where they are going to take me on permenantly. Its not what i trained for but a job is a job. and am being given greater responsibilities which is something i would have never thought i would be saying 5-6 months ago. Persistance and initative is the key Just look for jobs in the most unsusspecting places!

Its a shame that nottingham was not truely represented, not only was one of the girls employed by a local well known bar but the long trek to check the bank would normally take 5 mins in the other direction, ooops did they neglect to tell you this. There are plenty of genuine young adults here in Nottingham that would have represented the problems so much more truthfully its just a shame you chose these who are well known attention seekers from 'the square' society.