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Originally posted by cailin maithHang on - there is actually a place called Cheddar?? -
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.Comment
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Get with the program grandad. Its not that bad."Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "
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Originally posted by suityou01 View PostWhat would my 2 year old and pregnant wife"Condoms should come with a free pack of earplugs."Comment
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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.Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave JohnsonComment
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Originally posted by gingerjedi View PostI'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.Older and ...well, just older!!Comment
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Originally posted by gingerjedi View PostI 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."Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "
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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?Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.Comment
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Originally posted by suityou01 View Post[Get with the program grandad] : Were you walking around the Mall this afternoon with a vexacious expression walking through people?"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "
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