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Originally Posted by lucy7
My son, age 22 will finish uni this year.
Four years ago, he decided to study Quantity Surveying.
A good choice at the time, buidings going up all over the place and all that!
Now as you all know, thats all gone pear shaped.
The industry is getting rid of people, not taking them on.
Any ideas of what work he should be looking for, as all the posts he has applied for so far, he has not even recieved anything back from them.
We all are very concerned.
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Hi Lucy7, I'm a rather latecommer to this thread, but though I'd chip in my own tuppence worth....
I have a feeling that your son, whould be a very attractive candidate to The Royal Engineers as an officer (I was an enlisted member of the RE for 5.5 years back in my youth
). I know for a fact that the army is not an attractive choice to many people. I also have no idea what the minimum terms of service required of an officer, but as long as there's a nation, there will be an army to protect it.... As a side effect of having been an officer, your son will most likely find his employability to be much higher than a number of other people... Certainly not the "old school network", but a professional qualification, plus X years in the army should show he's a grafter.
