Where have all the first jobs gone?

那些第一份工作都去哪儿了?

Today in Focus

2026-06-30

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The number of young people in the UK not in work, education or training is spiralling. How much damage could it do to their long-term prospects – and the country? Sammy Gecsoyler reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, where have all the first jobs gone?

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  • Do you remember getting your first proper job?

  • Maybe it was after school or graduating university.

  • Chances are it felt like you'd taken your first step into proper adult life.

  • For a lot of young people in Britain today, that moment just isn't coming.

  • It just feels like the odds keep getting stacked against us,

  • against me, against my brother, against so many of my friends.

  • This is Hannah.

  • She's 24. I come from semi-low-income, state-educated.

  • I'm just an average person.

  • After years of hard work, she defied everyone's expectations

  • and managed to get a bursary to Oxford University from her small rural town.

  • She thought her future was secured.

  • I thought that was it.

  • That was my life made effectively.