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  • PAH
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    Take a year off backpacking around the world, pretending to be a student. By they time you get back the worst may have blown over.

    Obviously on your CV when you get back, you say you've been working for some fictional company (they never check references if they even ask for them) doing exactly what you're doing now, so you've only a bit of minimal re-skilling to get back up to speed when you start looking for work again.

    Worked for me in the past.

    May be tempted to do it again soon if the market really is as bad as some are saying.

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  • DimPrawn
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    Survival skills.
    Hand to hand combat.
    How to shoot a gun.
    How to skin a squirrel.

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  • Peoplesoft bloke
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    Dunno - if I knew I'd be doing it too. Only thing I'm honing at present is posting on here (and I'm not even doing that very well).

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  • Bagpuss
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    Originally posted by moorfield View Post
    If you had 1 day/week actual productive work to do at the moment and the remainder making yourself "look busy" at your desk - what would you start skilling up on between now and Christmas

    Edit: and/or the inevitable contract termination?

    For a moment there I though you wrote skinning up

    Yeah, do it!

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  • Xenophon
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    counterfeiting

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  • sasguru
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    Originally posted by moorfield View Post
    If you had 1 day/week actual productive work to do at the moment and the remainder making yourself "look busy" at your desk - what would you start skilling up on between now and Christmas and/or the inevitable contract termination?
    Black marketeering.

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  • swamp
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    Originally posted by moorfield View Post
    If you had 1 day/week actual productive work to do at the moment and the remainder making yourself "look busy" at your desk - what would you start skilling up on between now and Christmas?
    Russian.

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  • Liability
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    Originally posted by moorfield View Post
    If you had 1 day/week actual productive work to do at the moment and the remainder making yourself "look busy" at your desk - what would you start skilling up on between now and Christmas?
    Survival Techqniues and the art of war and killing.

    Once the markets all collapse even more, we'll all be seeing mass riots and fights and rampage like never before. We need to erase our past to protect our future or it'll be in our own interest to destroy ourselves.

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  • BigTime
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    Originally posted by moorfield View Post
    If you had 1 day/week actual productive work to do at the moment and the remainder making yourself "look busy" at your desk - what would you start skilling up on between now and Christmas?
    search jobserve for the highest paying skillset complimentary to yours and try to learn it.

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  • moorfield
    started a topic skilling up

    skilling up

    If you had 1 day/week actual productive work to do at the moment and the remainder making yourself "look busy" at your desk - what would you start skilling up on between now and Christmas

    Edit: and/or the inevitable contract termination?
    Last edited by moorfield; 27 October 2008, 16:57.

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