State of the Market

[Old Greg]

That only shows that degrees are mostly rubbish...

These days you can get better education online as you have access to all sorts of specialists within reach of your mouse (and wallet). Universities mostly hire people who couldn't make it and then students learn from them, all sprinkled with an unhealthy dose of Marxism.

Inneresting.

[Lance]

Inneresting.

written by someone who didn't go to uni and definitely doesn't have a chip on either shoulder

[Lance]

That only shows that degrees are mostly rubbish...

These days you can get better education online as you have access to all sorts of specialists within reach of your mouse (and wallet). Universities mostly hire people who couldn't make it and then students learn from them, all sprinkled with an unhealthy dose of Marxism.

so you know nothing about universities either....
The only Marxists I ever saw, and my wife is a lecturer, were a handful in the socialist worker party. There were maybe 5 of them. Lovely guys. Probably all estate agents now. Student politics died in the 80s. Almost all are there to learn. (getting drunk and taking drugs died in 00s).

Becoming a university lecturer is difficult and not well rewarded. they do it for the love of academia, and except for the politics courses, aren't political at all.

Are most degrees rubbish? Not all are brilliant, but people with degrees get paid more money and are more successful in general.

HINT: don't believe everything you see on Youtube. That leads to belief in conspiracy theories and other rubbish (caveat: there's good stuff on Youtube as well but if you haven't done critical thinking at a higher education institute it might be hard to differentiate).

[Bluenose]

4 months on the bench now and still no interviews, only a handful of callbacks. Best thing I've found thus far was some £45k perm garbage. I'm not giving up.

£35k Leeds/Bradford, all day long according to the weekly activity in my inbox.

That's Northern lads yearly Prett bill.

[Bluenose]

The market is looking pretty decent compared to last summer. Fortune favours the brave.

Not sure if serious

[vwdan]

Can anybody confirm if there *is* a market?

[ladymuck]

Can anybody confirm if there *is* a market?

The Farmers' Market up the road from me recently started up again. Does that count?

[PCTNN]

Universities mostly hire people who couldn't make it

Big generalisation but I have to say that there is a bit of truth in this. Quite a few people I know who ended up working in academia are fairly weird/socially awkward individuals.

A lot of them completely lacked social skills and street smarts, which made it impossible for them to find a job after they graduated. Therefore, to avoid being unemployed, they embarked in post graduate degrees, PhD, and ended up staying in that environment for life.

I also know "normal" people who work in universities because they love academia, but they could find employment anywhere they wanted just as easily. I'd say in my experience it's a 50 50 split.

[vwdan]

The Farmers' Market up the road from me recently started up again. Does that count?

Might have to do at this rate

[DimPrawn]

Can anybody confirm if there *is* a market?

I've spent a lot of my life being cynical, but I'm actually quite optimistic over this. I honestly think there'll be a brave new world for contractors who want to do 'real' contracting and can hold their nerve.

I've spent so much time persuading clients to treat me as a B2B that I find myself quite looking forward to it. Life's too short to let this define me - I contract for a large variety of reasons, and hopefully, most of those will still be valid.