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betty swollocks
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Well, I did invite you to boast in the original post
What brainboxes have we?
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betty swollocks
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FatFellaFromFelixstowe said:Cycling proficiency and 25 metre swim.
Already we're seeing what a talented bunch we are.
mr_hippo
Living Legend & Old Fart
Well, I can put about 21 letters after my name and this does not count the non-academic letters. I can boast that I had the CDM(FN) bestowed on me last Monday for services rendered..
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betty swollocks
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mr_hippo said:
Cadbury's Dairy Milk (Fruit and Nut)?
May I enquire what services were rendered?
Hilldodger
Guru
- Location
- sunny Leicester
Advanced City and Guilds in carpentry and joinery.
But what pisses me off is the snobbery around degrees etc.
I was turned down for a job last year even though they admitted I was the perfect candidate and had excellent references from eminent people in both the cycling and museums fields.
The reason - I don't have a degree! I could have had one in wiping my arse or something similar and that would've be ok, but no degree = no job.
But what pisses me off is the snobbery around degrees etc.
I was turned down for a job last year even though they admitted I was the perfect candidate and had excellent references from eminent people in both the cycling and museums fields.
The reason - I don't have a degree! I could have had one in wiping my arse or something similar and that would've be ok, but no degree = no job.
Morrisette
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- Newmarket, near Cambridge, UK
Some GCSEs
Some A Levels (one is Media Studies *pauses for laughter*)
BA in Comms Studies
PGDip in Publishing
Can't say any of them have made me any money so far.......
Some A Levels (one is Media Studies *pauses for laughter*)
BA in Comms Studies
PGDip in Publishing
Can't say any of them have made me any money so far.......
mr_hippo
Living Legend & Old Fart
Changing a strip light.betty swollocks said:
Questions asked by degree holders:-
Engineering degree - "How can we build this?"
Accountancy degree - "How much will it cost?"
Arts degree - "Do you want fries with it?"
Kirstie
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Hilldodger said:Advanced City and Guilds in carpentry and joinery.
But what pisses me off is the snobbery around degrees etc.
I was turned down for a job last year even though they admitted I was the perfect candidate and had excellent references from eminent people in both the cycling and museums fields.
The reason - I don't have a degree! I could have had one in wiping my arse or something similar and that would've be ok, but no degree = no job.
My F-I-L has the same problem. He is an estate manager in the national trust - been doing the job 20 years, manages a big budget, lots of people, has pioneered and implemented all kinds of conservation techniques, has lots of skills....and he has an HND in farming that he got 30 odd years ago. So, despite masses of hands on expereicne he cannot apply for an equivalent job in the national trust, or a promotion, because he doesn't have a degree in 'countryside management'. I guess that subject wasn't invented in the 1960s when he was at college. So in his case it's ageist too.
Dave Davenport
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- Hampshire
It would be interesting to do a comparison of qualifications against earnings. Whilst not wanting to get into a 'I am considerably richer than you' type scenario I've got a feeling I might earn a fair bit more than some people on here who've got heaps of academic qualifications.
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mr_hippo said:
Oh!: that's a bit disappointing. Had hoped for something a tad more raunchy. Did you?
walker
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- Bromley, Kent
Dave Davenport said:
The joys of being in Manual Labour.
A plumber by any chance?
