Reply to: Ooops, a rude word...almost

[PAH]

Not quite as obscene as the security architect contract, in the city, posted last week for £250/day.

These are probably fake ads designed by the agencies to try to lower the perceived average rates so they can cream more off themselves.

I suppose if they are genuine, they might catch a few newbies who don't know any better.

[ratewhore]

£100-£125 per day is not just rude it's obscene imho.

Not quite as obscene as the security architect contract, in the city, posted last week for £250/day.

[Diver]

<<ha ha ha ha he he he he >>

Anybody see a laughing gnome come through here?

[sasguru]

Wilmslooooooooooooooooooooow.......

<<ha ha ha ha he he he he >>

[DimPrawn]

Wilmslow must know the place as Wilmslow the place is just up the road from Knutsford

Wilmslooooooooooooooooooooow.......

[TheFaQQer]

I do.

Teaching is only safe if:
1. You are teacher of a scarce subject like physical sciences, technology or maths
2. You get on with the various heads you have

I have friends who are teachers and:
1.One of them got "restructured" 2 years ago with about 5 other teachers at her school. She was happy because she had just had a sprog and has a rich husband.
2. Also a friend who is soon to be a headteacher has been involved in suggesting teachers leave the schools that she has worked in due to unsatisfactory performance.

Also I remember when teachers in my secondary school where restructured:
1. The language teachers retired or found something else to do.
2. The music department was downsized. It was the teacher's own fault she prevented lots of pupils playing instruments and did herself out of a job.There isn't a great need for music teachers in state secondary schools.
3. An RE teacher was told to leave.

I'd add another criteria to teaching being a safe job - if you are teaching somewhere where others don't want to teach or can't afford to live.

MrsF used to teach in Slough, and there were some staff there who were hopeless, but the school couldn't get anyone else so they had to keep the rubbish teachers there.

[shelby68]

http://www.jobserve.com/W41A8A5FCD0659C12.job

Having worked there I can agree with the sentiment implied.

[Bumfluff]

I grew up in Knutsford anyone else from this area ? Knutsford highlights were The Redcow pub and the Knutsford fair and the posh car garage on the round about. Wilmslow must know the place as Wilmslow the place is just up the road from Knutsford

[SueEllen]

teacher

I was with one a few years ago. She seemed pretty smug that a teaching job is for life and recession proof.

Anyone disagree?

I would have agreed with her, apart from the fact she was teaching 14-15 year olds. She was probably in greater danger of being stabbed by the kids at the rough school she was working at.

I do.

Teaching is only safe if:
1. You are teacher of a scarce subject like physical sciences, technology or maths
2. You get on with the various heads you have

I have friends who are teachers and:
1.One of them got "restructured" 2 years ago with about 5 other teachers at her school. She was happy because she had just had a sprog and has a rich husband.
2. Also a friend who is soon to be a headteacher has been involved in suggesting teachers leave the schools that she has worked in due to unsatisfactory performance.

Also I remember when teachers in my secondary school where restructured:
1. The language teachers retired or found something else to do.
2. The music department was downsized. It was the teacher's own fault she prevented lots of pupils playing instruments and did herself out of a job.There isn't a great need for music teachers in state secondary schools.
3. An RE teacher was told to leave.

[miffy]

Midwife

teacher

I was with one a few years ago. She seemed pretty smug that a teaching job is for life and recession proof.

Anyone disagree?

I would have agreed with her, apart from the fact she was teaching 14-15 year olds. She was probably in greater danger of being stabbed by the kids at the rough school she was working at.

[Diver]

Nah.

It's a dying trade.

IGYC

[BrowneIssue]

Undertaker

Nah.

It's a dying trade.

[expat]

£100-£125 per day is not just rude it's obscene imho.

They'll probably get someone who's worth about that. Oh dear, I hope that's what they want.

[PAH]

Of course this may be someone who _does_ have a taste for contracting but for whatever reason wants a safe permie bolthole for a year or two and has found they have to pretend they don't like contracting so recruiters don't assume this person will do a runner the moment things improve.

I didn't think of that. Nice CV by the way.

If things somehow got so bad that I wanted or had to go back to permiedom, I'd probably pretend the contracts were permie positions anyway. Not too difficult when my average contract length is close to 2 years, longer than some permies stick around for anyway!

[SueEllen]

Undertaker

Midwife