Thursday, March 28

Silvia, unemployed: “Politicians who say the economy is doing well do not live in my neighborhood”


  • A 49-year-old resident of the Roquetas neighborhood complains about the lack of opportunities that companies give unemployed veterans

Silvia meets all the requirements to say that “I’m in unemployment, but not stop & rdquor ;. This neighbor of 49 years from the neighborhood of Rockets of Barcelona moves heaven and earth in the morning to find a new job, after the last temporary contract he had expired last December. In the afternoons he participates in the neighborhood residents’ association, where through the support network they have set up they try to reach where the Administration often does not, but the need does. In those, he ‘escapes’ for a few minutes from a meeting to answer the call from EL PERIÓDICO. “The politicians who say that the economy is doing well do not live in my neighborhood & rdquor ;, he says. “What we see every day, with the need that many families are going through, is not to say that things are going well. But here in Roquetes ‘fem pinya’ & rdquor ;, he adds.

Sílvia started working before finishing her studies. In the final stretch of what today would be a middle grade of early childhood education, she began to babysit, taking ‘pelas’ when she could because at home, as in so many others, “we were humble, hard-working people”. While she was studying she met the one who would later be her husband, they soon had children and Silvia began to combine her studies and babysitting with her children and kangaroos. “My dream was to set up a nursery. Seen in perspective now, I should have tried, but then we needed money and I couldn’t stop working & rdquor ;, he says.

Silvia, with the children already grown and the oldest of all already having started university, returns to the fray with the labor market. To this end, one of the pathways it activated was that of Active Barcelona. To train and where they offered to enter an occupation plan. He put on his work overalls and from July to December he was conducting research in the Les Corts neighborhood on the needs and habits of the elderly in the area. But the employment plan ended the year and now Silvia has to go back to look for a new job.

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“When you’ve been out for so long, it’s hard to get back in. I look for offers that say ‘no experience required’, but they don’t call me. I suppose they will wait young. At my age it costs more and right now it hasn’t caught me at the best time & rdquor ;, he says. “I have not had the best moment with this covid. Lots of people are still standing. At the moment he prioritized looking for mine, but I don’t rule out anything. If things continue like this and I don’t find anything, then I’ll start cleaning, I for my children whatever it takes & rdquor ;, adds proudly.



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