comment @ whoar:..paula bennett tells the unemployed young..to ’suck it up!’..
“..Young people thinking of hanging around on the dole can forget about it on her watch, says Social Development and Employment Minister Paula Bennett.
She says that work is a vital part of a good life, and there’s no way she’s letting young people stay on the dole.
“You may not get your dream job, but you need to prove that you have other attributes.
Take the risks, show up early and convince someone you can give the job 100 per cent.
Suck it up, and do what you need to do to make a reasonable living and get ahead in life,” she told us in an interview at the Beehive.
Her rise from single mother on the benefit to minister with one of the biggest portfolios in government has been well documented ..
.. and she said during our interview with her that she has risen from washing dishes in a rest home to a quarter million a year “dream job”.
But her belief in young people and her hard truths about getting a job were very apparent in our interview.
We went into the interview with one goal in mind - to find out why youth unemployment is at its highest since 1994 (22 per cent of 15-19 year olds are unemployed)..
.. and most importantly, what the Government is doing about it..”
(um..!..aside from advising lip/mouth action…not a lot..!..
and of course..bennett has that cloak of irony about her..
she talks/praches about solo-mums/dads ‘getting ahead’..like her..
yet ..as one of her first tasks as minister..she scrapped the very education allowances she used to ‘get ahead’/qualified..
i guess the advice she would profer to them now is just to ’suck it up!’..also..
..eh..?..)
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