Won't someone think of the poor agents?

[doodab]

And yet we all started without skills and are now models of skilled professionals.

But you didn't get there by walking into a job that needed advanced technical skills you didn't have did you?

[SupremeSpod]

But you didn't get there by walking into a job that needed advanced technical skills you didn't have did you?

Nope, never blagged a contract in my life...

[d000hg]

But you didn't get there by walking into a job that needed advanced technical skills you didn't have did you?

Pretty much. My first job out of university was as a physics programmer. No training of any sort.

[doodab]

Pretty much. My first job out of university was as a physics programmer. No training of any sort.

Ah well there you go then, we just need to persuade British industry that the thing to do is prefer one group of people with no idea what they are doing over the other.

[d000hg]

Ah well there you go then, we just need to persuade British industry that the thing to do is prefer one group of people with no idea what they are doing over the other.

I didn't say I had no idea. Though despite doing a degree in Maths/Physics/CompSci, very little of my work has ever directly used university education.

[shaunbhoy]

Maybe we could club together?

You mean like some sort of Professional Contractors Group???

Can't see that ever amounting to much!!

[shaunbhoy]

we just need to persuade British industry that the thing to do is prefer one group of people with no idea what they are doing over the other.

Shouldn't be too hard. The last Government allowed British Industry to be persuaded that they should prefer one (cheap) group of people with no idea, to another group of people that actually DID know what they were doing.

[d000hg]

You mean like some sort of Professional Contractors Group???

Can't see that ever amounting to much!!

No I meant club together to amass a big bribe.

[shaunbhoy]

No I meant club together to amass a big bribe.

Ahh....got you. Much more pragmatic, if a sight more immoral.

[threaded]

Ahh....got you. Much more pragmatic, if a sight more immoral.

What is immoral about it? It is just business.

You have a company, tell politico they can have a nice juicy directorship in it when they leave office, show them you have the money to pay to keep them in the life they wish to become accustomed too.

Jobs a gud'un.