{"id":315392,"date":"2025-10-19T06:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/315392\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T06:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:59:09","slug":"man-applies-for-80-jobs-in-two-months-with-no-success-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/315392\/","title":{"rendered":"Man applies for 80 jobs in two months with no success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Burgess told BBC Politics East that over the past two months he had applied for 80 jobs without success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been a constant cycle of redundancies. I just have to keep going, keep pushing myself,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His mother, Amanda Burgess, said her son had been &#8220;knocked down so often&#8221; but &#8220;doesn&#8217;t give up&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s so frustrating,&#8221; she said. &#8220;There&#8217;s not much help out there. It&#8217;s a scary time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In August this year the government said it had announced an extra \u00a345m to help &#8220;ensure that no young person will be left behind as we unlock economic growth&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The then Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Liz Kendall said: &#8220;This government will not stand by while so many young people are not in education or training &#8211; robbing them of their potential and our country of its future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Burgess told BBC Politics East that over the past two months he had applied for 80 jobs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":315393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,420,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-315392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115399541649394057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}