I am dyslexic and didn't learn to read and write until I was a teenager

If somebody is spelling badly there's normally a good reason for it

For me I come from a poor working class background from Northern England neither of my parents can read and write

So for them they presumed going to university would be a mechanism for me to escape poverty

It didn't work out like that because educational attainment is no longer linked to a university degree

40 years ago I could have gotten a degree from university and have a starting salary of 35,000 pounds

And have that increasing depending on the profession to 55,000 pounds or more within two to five years

For my parents generation they are boomers and generation X for them they entered the labour market in the 70s and 80s

That's when blue collar work was saturated with workers wish brought down the price of that work

Now it's the reverse with there being too many people's with degrees which decreases the value of going to university

And yes I do understand life is not fair