is IT still the right job ?

**wendigo100** · 18 April 2006, 11:10

Patricia Hewitt, the Health Secretary, said "There are thousands of people who are alive and well today as a direct result of this new contract."

I'm sure that is true.

**Hart-floot** · 18 April 2006, 11:19

Originally posted by sappatz

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4917454.stm

Can you give me the name of the agency that negotiated the GP's new NHS contract?

**DimPrawn** · 18 April 2006, 11:23

Originally posted by sappatz

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4917454.stm

You can get into IT with no skills and zero qualifications.

I think being a doctor of medicine might stretch some of the regulars here.

Plumbing or road sweeping is a more comparable occupation to IT.

**threaded** · 18 April 2006, 11:32

I think being a doctor of medicine might stretch some of the regulars here.

Let me tell you the story of a "Doctor" in a town oop north, who diagnosed a child with chicken pox three times. A question was asked of his qualifications and him and his whole family just disappeared into the night...

**Shimano105** · 18 April 2006, 11:38

..and then he popped up in Denmark trying to pass himself off as an IT contractor...

**Fungus** · 18 April 2006, 18:37

Originally posted by wendigo100

Quote:
Patricia Hewitt, the Health Secretary, said "There are thousands of people who are alive and well today as a direct result of this new contract."

I'm sure that is true.

It is. Doctors are now making so much money that there is a queue outside each surgery of fertile young chav woman who ask to be shagged so as to get maintenance payments for her and the sprog(s).

**Denny** · 18 April 2006, 20:17

Originally posted by DimPrawn

You can get into IT with no skills and zero qualifications.

I think being a doctor of medicine might stretch some of the regulars here.

Plumbing or road sweeping is a more comparable occupation to IT.

I thought IT technies had to diagnose sysytem malfunctions and perform their own particular brand of surgery by re-writing new code to bring an IT system back to full health.

As nurse, I could lend a hand polishing the screen and dusting the keyboard once the job's done.

**DimPrawn** · 18 April 2006, 21:36

Originally posted by Denny

I thought IT technies had to diagnose sysytem malfunctions and perform their own particular brand of surgery by re-writing new code to bring an IT system back to full health.

No, most spend there time posting tulipe here instead

**expat** · 18 April 2006, 22:40

Originally posted by Denny

I thought IT technies had to diagnose sysytem malfunctions and perform their own particular brand of surgery by re-writing new code to bring an IT system back to full health.

As nurse, I could lend a hand polishing the screen and dusting the keyboard once the job's done.

"their own particular brand of surgery" = metaphor.

"As nurse" - what's the connection with the comparison between a IT techie and a qualified doctor?

DP:

I think being a doctor of medicine might stretch some of the regulars here.

Looks like just imagining it is a bit of a stretch for some.

Do you ever wonder why you bother coming back here?

is IT still the right job ?