Life on the bench: in my dressing gown

[RichardCranium]

glorious sunshine and blue skies! I haven't seen those for a few weeks.

That's really, really good. It means the Missus can have her helicopter flying lesson this afternoon.

After I posted that it went dark and started raining. It has now cleared up again and the airfield say it is sunny there. So ... off we go...

[Dark Black]

Blimey... talk about obscure...

Defintely too much time on your hands mate

CB appears to be the preferred abbreviation for Cyberman. I was suggesting that because you keep CB, CB is your sockpuppet, that is, you are Cyberman. I did, however, understand you meant CB radio, but chose to be dense. Doing so comes easily.

Having ascertained you keep an image of someone (Cyberman) in your loft, I then applied the literary allusion to Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray", a story which, contrary to popular opinion, I found to be tulipe.

I trust my explanation was of little, if any, value?

[ChimpMaster]

Blimey... talk about obscure...

Defintely too much time on your hands mate

I'm not your mate, buddy.

I'm not your buddy, friend.

etc...

[zamzummim]

Jeez.

Ad says: "Experienced PM wanted, central government, experience of IT systems"


Agent says: "Have you IT PM experience?"

Me: "Yep."

Agent: "Sorry, they do not want IT PMs. My inbox has been bombarded by you guys. What is it with you lot?"

Me: "I am a heavily qualified and experienced PM with 5 years business change experience and, and, and".

Agent: "But you've done IT PM too. They specifically don't want people with IT PM experience."

Me: "So why put it in the ad?"

Agent: "It says experience of IT systems, not of IT project management."


It's the 'wrong kind of experienced' again.

[RichardCranium]

Yesterday evening I had a go at installing a blog. What a trivially easy task. No wonder everyone's cat has got one.

A forum has a few more options, however. That's taking longer.

[alreadypacked]

Yesterday evening I had a go at installing a blog. What a trivially easy task. No wonder everyone's cat has got one.

A forum has a few more options, however. That's taking longer.

You need to get out more

[RichardCranium]

You need to get out more

It is all leading somewhere.

Once I've got my head around running a site, I'll have a play with online databases and other bits that appear in job ads for roles I could have gone for but did not feel confident I could blag about with confidence in an interview.

Anyway, I'm now dressed, and it's not even mid-day, so I'm on a roll today.

[voodooflux]

A forum has a few more options, however. That's taking longer.

What forum software are you planning to use? You should be able to get up and running with something like phpBB pretty quickly.

[RichardCranium]

What forum software are you planning to use? You should be able to get up and running with something like phpBB pretty quickly.

phpBB v3.

But it has 743 menus each with 17 levels of sub-menu. The other four tabs are much the same.

When I started bleeding from the ears, I went to bed.

[NotAllThere]

Jeez.

Ad says: "Experienced PM wanted, central government, experience of IT systems"


Agent says: "Have you IT PM experience?"

Me: "Yep."

Agent: "Sorry, they do not want IT PMs. My inbox has been bombarded by you guys. What is it with you lot?"

Me: "I am a heavily qualified and experienced PM with 5 years business change experience and, and, and".

Agent: "But you've done IT PM too. They specifically don't want people with IT PM experience."

Me: "So why put it in the ad?"

Agent: "It says experience of IT systems, not of IT project management."


It's the 'wrong kind of experienced' again.

Re-write your CV so that it's the CV of a project manager with experience of IT systems, re-apply through a different agency.