My point on unemployment was that letting pride get in the way of your income is completely foolish. Those who are unemployed but never even attempt to do anything about it and are perfectly capable of doing something are total parasites.

I recently got my results for my assignments at uni last year - 2 merits and 2 passes. With some harder work (i.e starting straight away instead of pulling so many last minute jobs) I could have got at least 1 distinction and upgraded the passes to merits. Who is to blame for this but me? When I finish my education I intend to go job hunting - if my education is not up to scratch due to not working hard enough on my assignments that'll be my own fault (discrimination at interviews are something else which I do not have so much control over). If I screw up in other ways - still my fault. People who screw up and then complain about how unfair everything is when they could go and do something instead of complaining annoy me.