Getting a qualification is one thing. Getting a job with that qualification is another.

When the media speaks of a ‘skills shortage’ in any one area, this is what it should say; ‘there’s a skills shortage, but it’s a shortage of people that are deemed suitable and employable in that discipline’.

I’ve personally met people that have got degrees and masters coming out of their fucking ears…. they are **never** ****EVER**** going to be employed by anyone in the way that they might like to be. One of them is a long-term sickness beneficiary. Socially retarded mate… you wouldn’t want him around to start off with.

Some degrees and the ‘would you like fries with that’ add-ons are handed out like flyers. The employers aren’t so stupid.

Did anyone (else) actually read the DPF post? – “The DPB pays $33.01 a week gross “

Here’s my **totally** irrational completely fucked up opinions….

First off.. I’m not a big fan of the name Tracy. Then… Weihana… she *looks* lazy. Why? Because she’s a fucking Titanic missing an iceberg… that’s why… oooo I’m snowed under with two girls and studying… yeah right…. excuses… yeah right…

$350 a week? On top of DPB? Oh dear…. no way…. GET STUFFED!!!!!

Pisses me off some of the high filutin paper qualifications the DPB dreamers go for… you just know that she’s **never**… even with the masters… going to get a job in the field. I don’t mind seeing that a DPB mother is studying something like nursing… they’ll get a job with that qualification… but you know that a lot of these wankers won’t get a job with the crap they’re doing….

12 and 13 year old girls. Yep… that’s full-time parenting required there. That’s a fulltime job. They need your attention 24/7 like a hand and foot servant. Yeah right. Wiping their arse all day long… I don’t know where I find the time to work on my thesis. She’s not working at all, yeah? So… it’s the girls…. and study….. and that’s it. No exercise or time for it by the looks… hahaha

nup, she will talk to other people in her “situation”. well thats just great.

she can make it work or do something else. simple.

Any job she gets is one another could be doing – and she is one year from completing training in a field in which we have shortages.

The governments own investment approach is based on investing to make people work capable and also to get people trained in areas where there are shortages.

How much would one more year cost – and what would be the higher rate of tax that a trained person would pay?

Would you accept that in return for her borrowing living cost off the loan $172, the government pay her another $180 a week to make up the short-fall from her current DPB entitlement so she can afford to complete her studies?

This cuts her tax paid income from $350 (DPB) to $180 a week and yet gets her into a secure better paid job.

PS oppositon from the left re the film-making is not to picking winners, it is doing so on the terms set by foreigners (who play one country off against another).

…how about… she gets a job in the totally useless field of HR?

Presumably there are plenty of people going for that type of job whereas her qualification is in an area of skill shortage.

…lazy…

Hmmm.. I would’ve thought post graduate study was an an indication of the opposite.

… baby-factory arse…

2 children equals a baby factory?

My sympathy diminishes for people who have an excessive number of children with limited means, but two seems reasonable.

The government shouldnt be picking winners!

is the degree she has done absolutely useless without the masters? or does it qualify her for work, but not quite the work the entitled lady wants?

how about, rather than aiming for a public sector job, she gets a job in the totally useless field of HR? then, when the kids are 18 and she can afford it, do her masters then. god forbid she has to do a job she doesnt totally want to do.. i mean 90% of the poor bastards in this world would rather have a different job, but they didnt have kids in NZ.

A school of reef fish that turns in this direction every now and then?

He also claims that most cases of divorce were initiated by the wife, this may be the case, but where is the evidence confirming it?

She would be required to be available for part-time work (15 hours a week) as a condition of the DPB (with children aged 12 and 13).

It would seem she is now being part-time work tested and there is no exception for those studying full-time – so they must transfer to student allowance while studying full-time. But as a post grad student she does not qualify for student allowance.

The reason she cannot get the DPB + living cost on the loan is because she is being told she cannot get the DPB if she studies (because it is in breach of her obligation to be available for 15 hours work). The alternative student allowance, available for under-graduates only, includes child benefit and accomodation supplement.

If this is the case, then it explains why there has been a recent fall in numbers on the DPB. Because those studying full-time (with children between 5 and 13) are being transferred to student allowance.

But it will mean she’s too knowledgeable to ever vote LabGreen again.