Please read with positivity specs on

[FSM with Cheddar]

From what I read these people who complain are at the trailing edge of a civilisation. I like to think of it as a anti-pattern for a failing society. Next step is economic collapse, then revolution or invasion.

People complaining, is actually a good thing. It ensures that society is constantly improving, and that the morally acceptable bar is always rising.

[realityhack]

suityou, I can totally empathise... All good responses, and I'll echo milan's offer - if there's anything we can do to help you with your cv, or search strategy, ask away.

Chin up, it's not all bad out there, and most of us feel this way at some point.

[Ruprect]

Get with the program grandad. Its not that bad.

[ThomasSoerensen]

What would my 2 year old and pregnant wife

isn't your wife a bit young to be pregnant at the age of 2? eek

[gingerjedi]

I was walking down my local high street last Saturday when I noticed a ‘yoof’ having an altercation with a respectable looking middle age bloke who was walking with his partner and dog, I don’t know what started it but it ended with the middle aged guy just walking away whilst the ‘yoof’ was waving his hands in the air shouting “I’ll carve you up ****** ******”.

Everyone around was looking at the ‘yoof’ in complete disgust whilst he wandered off without a care in the world. I'm not a violent man but I really wanted someone to knock him out so the high street congregation could all go over one by one and kick the little fecker whilst he was down.

[ratewhore]

I'm not a violent man but I really wanted someone to knock him out so the high street congregation could all go over one by one and kick the little fliper whilst he was down.

In the last few years I took the decision to start weight training and kick boxing. I'm in my late 30's but I felt I needed to be able to defend my family, and myself properly. So, now I don't get overly worried when stared at by a yoof, because I know I can take his head off his shoulders if I needed to. Plus of course, I am fitter than I have been since I was a teenager...

[Ruprect]

I was walking down my local high street last Saturday when I noticed a ‘yoof’ having an altercation with a respectable looking middle age bloke who was walking with his partner and dog, I don’t know what started it but it ended with the middle aged guy just walking away whilst the ‘yoof’ was waving his hands in the air shouting “I’ll carve you up ****** ******”.

Everyone around was looking at the ‘yoof’ in complete disgust whilst he wandered off without a care in the world. I'm not a violent man but I really wanted someone to knock him out so the high street congregation could all go over one by one and kick the little fliper whilst he was down.

When I was a Glastonbury last year we had the misfortune to pitch near a group of lads, one of which shouted out to basically anyone who went past "I'll cut you up". His mates thought this was hilarious. Now besides the point that this is the complete opposite of what Glastonbury is about, it seems we've crossed another line of what was considered taboo to now being the norm. I'm sure it was just a "laugh", but I don't really consider that socially acceptable - am I just being old?

[suityou01]

Wow,

Some really through provoking replies. Thanks to everyone. A lot to think about and I certainly will.

Initially my responses are :

[Moral decline has always been around] : Prolly right. History shows us this. Refocus needed.

[Do something about it rather than just complain] : This one really set me thinking. I shall be researching this. This is just the kind of thing I can really get behind.

[Be more flexible over geographical area, rate etc and reassess CV] :
I am certainly being flexible over geographical area, and am entertaining prospects all over UK. I am being flexibleish over rate, maybe need to be more so. My CV has been honed over the years and I am pretty happy with it, I have also had good feedback over the years from various pimps who say it is very "impressive" and user friendly. I know there is no perfect CV, and we can always improve but I don't think it is holding me back. Rather I think most jobs posted these days are bogus, and the ones that aren't have 65K applicants. I just got my BCS membership through so I can at least put that on there now, and I have some MCPs, and I am looking to add to them. Also investigating becoming CITP.

[What are of IT are you in?] : Software development. Come up through the ranks from back in the day writing cheesy VB apps for Windows 3.11, now designing (and building) enterprise apps, data modelling, systems analysis, business analysis. Most MS technologies, although I am still a total nerd and play around with Linux and gcc gtk+ apps in my spare time.

[Get with the program grandad] : Were you walking around the Mall this afternoon with a vexacious expression walking through people?

[TheFaQQer]

The grandson of a friend of my parents was kicked to death in December.

Over a mobile phone.

His mother was told not to go and identify the body.

[Ruprect]

[Get with the program grandad] : Were you walking around the Mall this afternoon with a vexacious expression walking through people?