IT - Only in it for the Money?

[Sysman]

Back in the day, it was cheap labour, then all of a sudden you had to pay them about 80% of the fully trained rate, which, to some extent (apart from Saint Margaret abolishing the training boards) explains why apprenticeships died the death.

I'd be amazed if the modern apprenticeships were anything like as rigourous as they were back then.

Was it 5 or 6 years for a brickie? I think the first year of that was just making the tea.

The retraining schemes claimed to turn out brickies in 6 weeks.

Yeah. Right.

ou haven't lived until you've spent a whole week filing a chunk of aluminium into a perfect cube.

Or been sent to stores to request a bucket of steam/braided fuse wire/hammerfor.

And fetching sandwiches from the shop. A lethal exercise which can easily leave you well out of pocket.

[Mincepie]

Work is very dull but it pays the bills. I couldn't earn the money i get performing a different role so it will have to do. Keep on smiling keep on invoicing until enough is enough

[Eirikur]

went into IT for the money back in 1999
Have a University degree in something completely different, just made a career switch doubled my salary overnight. Went into contracting and more than doubled my income again

[SueEllen]

If working in a shop paid contractor rates I would work in a shop.

It is the never ending array of halfwits and the legacy of halfwits past that fooks me off about IT.

There are lots of halfwits in shops.

And if you are unlucky enough to work with clothes or soft furnishings that need folding all you spend 3 hours of your day is folding them. Then you get a f***ing customer who will start throwing the stuff you just folded around. ..

[Bunk]

I can't imagine doing this stuff if I wasn't interested in it anyway. Doesn't that make it seem like work?

[tomtomagain]

Work is very dull but it pays the bills.

If work was interesting it would be called "Entertainment" and you'd have to pay them.

[SueEllen]

If work was interesting it would be called "Entertainment" and you'd have to pay them.

I'm sure working actors don't get bored and are happy to do it rather than bar work.

[mudskipper]

I wouldn't mind being an actor.

Quite fancy a period drama.

[SueEllen]

I wouldn't mind being an actor.

Quite fancy a period drama.

But you would spend 99% of your time "resting" and trying to make it big.

If you were lucky you would get some advert work and if you were even luckier you would get a panto/regular walk on part in EastEnders.

[mudskipper]

But you would spend 99% of your time "resting" and trying to make it big.

If you were lucky you would get some advert work and if you were even luckier you would get a panto/regular walk on part in EastEnders.

Worth it for my one snog with Colin Firth in a wet shirt.