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What's the average SF employment status?


What's your employment status?  

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  1. 1. What's your employment status?

    • Retired.
      6
    • House wife/husband.
      8
    • Work full time and get bled dry by the tax man.
      85
    • Financially independent.
      3
    • Work part-time or on a low income and receive tax credit help to get the family by.
      7
    • Still in education.
      10
    • Couldn’t make a career work so I’ve taken the get-out of being a mature student.
      3
    • Unable to work (for whatever genuine reason) and receive state support.
      6
    • I have worked, but I’m short-term unemployed.
      6
    • Long-term unemployed and really cheesed off with prospects.
      0
    • Don’t work, don’t particularly want to – happy to sign on and do a bit of fiddle.
      2
    • Professional crook.
      1


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I don’t think SF is made up of a representative section of society – though of course I could be wrong.

 

Half of the UK population is working, and 10% are unemployed or on benefits (of some kind and for whatever reason.).

 

It would be interesting to see where the bulk of SF members sit.

 

Representative of local/national/international society?

 

Probably more along the lines of national society than local, im guessing most users live in or were brought up in sheffield, with a minority of infidels who have never been to sheffield.

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Representative of local/national/international society?

 

Probably more along the lines of national society than local, im guessing most users live in or were brought up in sheffield, with a minority of infidels who have never been to sheffield.

I was thinking national norms, but Sheffield people should not be too far removed from national averages.

From the poll thus far, we have a far higher than UK average number of people in full time work.

 

I was expecting, based on many of the more noticeable and vociferous posters, that there would be more students, unemployed, and ‘unable to work’ respondees (perhaps it just seems that way because those people may have more time available to sit by the PC, and are therefore a loud minority). I was under the impression that there were a relatively large number of posters who are either unemployed, disabled, or both, and expected there to be a ‘spike’ of responses accordingly. (Before anybody gets defensive, none of this is meant in any way whatsoever to be a slight against people who are either disabled or unemployed, but one might not unreasonably expect people in those groups to use internet chat fora more than some other groups).

 

Perhaps the high proportion in-work is because a higher proportion of people in full time work have constant internet access.

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I don’t think SF is made up of a representative section of society – though of course I could be wrong.

 

Half of the UK population is working, and 10% are unemployed or on benefits (of some kind and for whatever reason.).

 

It would be interesting to see where the bulk of SF members sit.

 

Employed and happy, but always tired.......

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