There isn ' t any choice . Meanial minimum wag zero hours is the only work you can usually get . The real sinister part of zero hours is that you can ' t string multiple such jobs together and save because your works so erratic . The high rents male saving impsooble because half your income goes straight back out before you even eat . I managed to get a factory job and work 12 s while living at home to save up money . Then when I got my administration job that I do now getting a mortgage became viable . I ' m lucky to have gotten out of that quagmire . I ' m still no where near secure enough to consider family but probably can look to it by 30 . Most of my peers will never own a home or even get steady work . Half of those I know with 1 st class degrees in stem have already emigrated the other half are in the London rat race because the situation is such bullshit one guy plans to come back someday and Brexit has made him doubt even that . TBH if I hadn ' t put down roots so fast I ' d probably have left too . From a purely cold practical stance I ' m an idiot to stay in the county as young person with some skills . The people I care about are all here though so got to make the best of it .