"None of us have had it easy" - our take on getting into the job market

[@nr4509]

Her vehicle of choice has nothing to do with how difficult it is to get a job in Toronto. I know many young grads applyimg for entry level jobs and still getting told no. she made no mention of making 6 figures right out of school. She simply expressed her frustration in getting a job in her field, in this clip thr show decided to air.

[@bonbonvegabon]

exactly but these self absorbed cons on this panel are disgusting

[@dom4591]

She shouldn't have said her work experience was her schooling. That right there made everything else she said irrelevant

[@tomannejules]

I totally agree. Sid is a reactionary idiot. His rants are meaningless redneck drivel and always about himself. He doesn't like that the young woman got an education but he himself didn't get an education because he is plainly lazy minded. This show sucks beyond belief.

[@johncam8420]

The girl isn't even from Toronto lmao. She's in America, we don't have the same economies.

[@Locallites]

Only fans is a hard life lol

[@Ace-Of-Spades-01]

The lesson of this story is that a college degree is worthless.

[@bonbonvegabon]

Drop out cons are wor*hless and have no skills lol

[@dom4591]

No it isn't. A degree has never just brought you a top job. There's a lot of jobs you cannot get without a degree. But first you need experience in the work field. You don't get that experience in school.

[@alb.4089]

I have a 2 year college diploma in Social Work and it did me well. But I had to network, volunteer, worked several jobs until I got where I wanted to be.

[@Ace-Of-Spades-01]

@@alb.4089 If you had to do all that, what was the college diploma for?

[@Ace-Of-Spades-01]

@@alb.4089 Was your college diploma a requirement for your job in Recreation Therapy?

[@colbysbees]

There's no way any of these panelists had student debt, because we live in CANADA, where we all enjoy very affordable tuition. $80,000 is life crushing. And frankly, we all need to acknowledge that for a lot of industries, business in particular, the degree is utterly trash. We all could've done a good job at our first job right out of high school if we applied yourself, almost nothing that we learned for 4 years had any application on our first jobs, and those things that did have application, could have been easily learned ON the job.

[@JoshuaYoung2]

Your degree is your education. There's a difference between knowing something and doing something.

[@forte7991]

That's why i watch Sid

[@arlenejohnston6026]

Excellent commentary on working hard from Breakfast Television in Toronto ❤

[@andrewmachado6988]

The problem also is the post secondary education system is flawed in this country. What I mean by that is these kids go to college/university, get an education and have smoke blown up their butts and are told “oh you walk out of here you’re going to have a job making $80,000 per year”. But that is not reality, what the kids should be told is “you’re going to walk out of here, and start out working low paying jobs in your industry, and if you’re good at it or stick it out long enough, you’ll eventually make $80,000 a year”. Nothing in life is handed to you, you have to work at it, and I think that’s been lost on some of the younger generation. They just want to be given everything. Life doesn’t work like that.

[@bonbonvegabon]

We were out of university 3 years before we landed our 80K a year job in our field of study

[@MikeJacobsen-r6e]

Love the bluntness and to the point Sid!

[@coltino99]

I wonder how many people called her out on driving a white leather SUV

[@lindalava1517]

Amen Sid !

[@apacheTV]

this new generation is delusional and doesn't want to work hard

[@DisabledExplorer]

In my personal opinion, I believe post secondary education, to potentially find a job in a specific field is unnecessary because, you dish out a whole lot of money for education, only to find out that when you graduate for that field of work, there are potentially no positions for you, in your realm that you studied. I say potentially very lightly because you may get lucky and find something, don't get me wrong. 😊 You see, I also think, when a class of post secondary is offered, for a specific career field, those who run that program, should have a direct connection with a company already, so that when graduation comes around, those students can jump into the connected company that the program was linked to, and not be searching job postings and forums, for a job in their studied field, you know what I'm saying? :) Just my 2 cents. Lol

[@bonbonvegabon]

No trouble telling you have no secondary education lol

[@ScoTTyScoTTyScoTT]

Sid hit the nail On the head calling out the type of car she’s driving lol. I make over $100k a year and drive a 2008 Pontiac lol. Cut your expenses and you won’t be in that bad of a financial position.

[@bonbonvegabon]

lol rents start at 2600 a month. Sid is an out of touch geezer

[@PeanutButter-19]

She was lied to.

[@bonbonvegabon]

The rents are too high now. 2600 a month

[@chipper7006]

New Gen kids think they can bank right out of the shoot. Just like what Steven Tyler said " Dream on"

[@matthewmadden8971]

and i don't wanna hear "i worked for free" and "volunteer". people are volunteering and looking for experiences everywhere. and you worked for free because you went into broadcasting, where there is far less money to be had at the bottom of the totem pole than in other industries, like engineering or a business graduate.

[@davidmcquaid2557]

I'm still working out the seat belt bit.

[@christopherelliott6571]

I'm moving to America. Sid is out of touch with what's going on.

[@chachifeere]

This has been said for years and years

[@mariegiroli5126]

Good morning BT & all🤗

[@justinandrew4388]

The problem is that higher education does not prepare you for the experience needed to get your foot into the door to even have a chance at landing a job after graduation. This is not opinion, as it is fact - more and more university degrees are struggling to find ways to implement this 'experiential learning' component, but it also must be noted that this does not work with all degrees. The degrees that can almost guarantee good pay and a job out of graduation are nursing, engineering and business - and the rest are pretty much 'useless' when it comes to aiming for a job out of graduation. Keep in mind that most universities want students to stay for graduate school to enhance their research profile, so they are not investing in students who have already chosen not to go to graduate school. There are a wealth of factors that play a role here.... university administration and leadership have different motives for students, the times have changed drastically since the day when a degree really meant something, and yes this generation is very different than the last. Therefore, I can understand where each of you are coming from, but it's not as easy as 'oh well, we got through it, so why can't they?'. In fact, that is such a terrible way of looking at things in terms of progress. (No, I am not forgetting that many just don't put in the effort because they believe that doing 4 years of education should just hand you a job - it has never actually been that way, and so that myth needs to be busted for the current generation). I must finish with 1. anyone going to university expecting that a degree is going to make their life, especially in 2023, likely is just living on cruise control and not living in the reality of 2023, but also 2. Sid, if you think that 'we' have not been working 'for free' as you did out of college/university, you clearly are very disconnected from the reality of education in 2023 because the majority of students are forced to work for years for free or on minimal pay before we can actually land something full-time and secure.... try talking to real humans instead of just making assumptions based on a single student who is clearly living in a fantasy driving around in such a vehicle while complaining about money.

[@showdown2006]

This is where you guys are getting stuff to report on? from tik tok? lol

[@arlenejohnston6026]

Where else do you get your news- Facebook or X?

[@showdown2006]

@@arlenejohnston6026 we can’t anymore remember? C-18? It’s funny that meta called the liberals bluff but now all mainstream media is using this content to report the news lol

[@bonbonvegabon]

This panel SUCKS

[@sherryleslie8614]

You all said it well, but I have to laugh at Sid, he was right to the point. There is a “New” Generation that is Entitled, which unfortunately, technology and society has developed. Now they expect everything to happen right now. Bippity, Boppity, Boo Generation! Lol

[@wainber1]

I started a small business out of university and have always been flexible as to working arrangements. That said, all such arrangements have so far made financial sense. It's one thing for a job to be located sufficiently close by public transit to my place of residence should such a job require at least some away-from-home work. 2 part-time jobs that began early in 2019 but ended on the week of 8 March 2020 Eastern Time (the week before the Ford Government would declare its original covid state-of-emergency) for slightly different reasons (a bookkeeping one due to a shortage of work unrelated to the then-upcoming pandemic, an educational one due to a need for the relevant institute to downsize its staff in response to the then-emerging pandemic). It's quite another, however, if a job is located far enough away from the nearest bus, streetcar, subway or other train route that provides, from any point in the City of Toronto, frequent enough service that taking transit all the way to an away-from-home job. Last month I took an Uber ride to a medical appointment in Toronto's downtown, having to wait almost 30 minutes for that ride to arrive at my Midtown residence. Although I could've taken the TTC, looking back that day was a good test to determine the feasibility of mixing transit and ridehail services were I to work at an away-from-home job. Should I find a job that requires at least some away-from-home work and should public transit and walking not get me all the way there within a reasonable time period, I see taking Uber or Lyft, at least from home to work, as more practical. That is even with: - Uber and Lyft at times having often put in place surge-pricing (something that may very well happen again) that may see the prices of such rides go up to as much as 300% of what such prices would ordinarily be due to high demand and no legislation in Ontario that sets a limit on such pricing - taxi apps that I've tried that either haven't worked that well or, like the Beck Taxi one, don't allow logging out barring deletion of such apps - no taxi app that I've found that, like the Uber and Lyft ones, allow users to log out if such users want to Should I know that an away-from-home job, taking into account potential Uber or Lyft surge-pricing, not make financial sense, I will not take that job. TBD will then be whether I will know that fact after I have viewed that job but before I have chosen to apply for that job or after I've applied.

[@ydg5156]

This speaks to the lack of character of BT hosts in that they ignore uncomfortable realities in this post. A. Sid can go months without being paid while working full-time; he does get that most people cannot do that. Who's paying his bills during his internship? B. The person in this post isn't asking to be on Breakfast Television and isn't at home not working. She is just looking for a marketing position after paying a considerable amount of money to go to college while working in the restaurant industry (servers work hard, folks, a lot harder than Sid did during his internship, I will bet). C. Just because BT hosts happily wade through the crap to get a job doesn't make it moral to expect others to wade through that crap. Maybe the panel shouldn't have been okay with what they were asked to do just to get a job to pay their bills. This speaks to the lazy arrogance of many who ignore that we should want to make things better, not worse, for younger generations.

[@bonbonvegabon]

Conservatives are THE WORST

[@daliamichail9967]

Although I’m interested in the topic, I was put off by the first anchor who judged the car the girl was driving, then compared herself as a 25 year old!!!! What..? Get real… why all this criticism? Just get to the point with an open mind and a positive narrative!!

[@ianbenjiman]

Nothing will disqualify you for a job more rapidly than entitlement.

[@Michael-it6gb]

If anybody is entitled these days it's these companies who claim shortage of workers.

[@crystalclear111]

Careful there guys, next thing you know you'll all be voting on a Conservative ballot 🤭

[@dom4591]

According to our own governments election projections. If there was an election today. Conservatives would win

[@livetoronto]

What if the car is not hers? I can't believe you automatically assume it's her vehicle??? Judge much ? Turning into the View is why I don't watch your channel anymore.

[@matthewmadden8971]

pretty shocked how ignorant of a take this is from all four on the couch. yea the sushi serving has nothing to do with marketing, but maybe it's paying the bills and she has no choice but to keep working that job to afford an impossibly expensive apartment! it's not just business graduates, even engineering students are struggling to find internships. BT is out of touch with the 20-year old Ontarian

[@rockindudefromthe80sss]

The woman was in an expensive vehicle whining about not getting what she thinks she is entitled to. Here's a news flash for the whiner. Your education is not your experience. The education hopefully will help you get a job that will get you some experience. The more experience you have, the better your chances of getting better jobs. Too many people think that everything they want should be handed to them. It does not work that way!!!

[@matthewmadden8971]

@@rockindudefromthe80sss I agree, but it is completely disappointing that not one of the people on the panel gave her the benefit of the doubt...or even mentioned the fact that there are so many people out there (not necessarily the woman in the car) that are doing the right things, putting themselves through intensive, expensive schooling, making social sacrifices to stay competitive. for instance, there are HUNDREDS of med school applicants rejected from Ontario med schools every year who are extremely worthy candidates, but there's simply not enough seats in Ontario med schools for them all, so they are either out of luck or forced to look to the US where most of them get in. there are so many bright people in this province working so hard, it is a complete joke that BT was so condescending on this topic, made a mockery of the woman, took things out of context, shameful. but then again this is why broadcasting is dying, no young people care to watch this garbage and i don't blame them

[@rockindudefromthe80sss]

@@matthewmadden8971 The opinions of the panel are not garbage. It has always been that you work hard, go to school, and make sacrifices to earn a job or career that you want. Nobody gets a free ride through life. If you want a job that a lot of other people want, you better work harder at earning it than they do.

[@dom4591]

​@@matthewmadden8971the woman in this video dug her own grave when she assumed school was her work experience. That one thing invalidated everything else she had to say.

[@bonbonvegabon]

thats how out of touch conservatives roll. Sid is an out of touch geezer

[@klieglamp]

Mr. Sid will be gone soon . . . it's supposed to be entertaining, not annoying, Siddie. Boo-hoo. Who hired this fool?

[@charlenemillar7059]

Stop starting your responses with “I feel like…” no you don’t! You don’t feel anything about it! Speak without that filler phrase its annoying. Same with “at the end of the day…”. Also stupid.

[@ernstfischer8976]

Knowledge is easy… doing and getting to the big 💰 is a whole different game. By the way…it’s always been like that. 😊