David Beaumont, 21
‘I’d thought that a final year economics student at the LSE would get a job easily. But I’ve found it impossible to get even an unpaid internship. My plan after graduation is to get out: to travel, funded by a low-paid job. Getting on the career ladder at this stage seems a lost cause. It feels like I have had to delay my life.’
Jessica Dickinson, 24
‘I’m stuck in an unhappy relationship because I simply cannot afford to move out of the flat I share with my boyfriend. There doesn’t seem to be a market for degrees in government studies. The outlook is incredibly depressing and I can’t really see things improving.’
Edward Gibson, 21
‘I think that my generation has been given a healthy dose of reality. Before people presumed that their degrees were the key to the futures they felt they were entitled to.
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