But when I was here, a lot of my fellow teenagers were in a very different situation, leaving school at a time then of rapidly growing youth unemployment, and essentially hitting a brick wall in terms of their opportunities.
但我在这里的时候， 我的许多青少年伙伴处在非常不一样的形势下， 他们在年轻人失业飙升的时候毕业离开了学校， 在就业机会上他们等于撞上了南墙。