Reply to: IT - the safety net

[TheFaQQer]

Didn't you people know that the average salary in IT is 37K?

That's about what I make each year.



For the 4 months that I work.

[EqualOpportunities]

Don't builders on site spend all day on a sort of buildery internet, made of bricks?

n*rks

[Doggy Styles]

I think we may have been rumbled...

"The course I'm doing gives you everything you need in respect to finding work, such as all day use of the internet [snip]"

Don't builders on site spend all day on a sort of buildery internet, made of bricks?

[EqualOpportunities]

I think we may have been rumbled...

"The course I'm doing gives you everything you need in respect to finding work, such as all day use of the internet [snip]"

[AlfredJPruffock]

The government are aligning our recent proposals to support those who lose their jobs due to US subprime and bad lending by banks, with new measures and initiatives. One of those initiatives is to focus on high technology services, IT and science and engineering.

To this end we are increasing work permits to allow highly skilled migrants to come here and train the UK workforce, and also offering tax incentives to large companies that move the work offshore, thereby freeing up UK workers to retrain a Social Workers and Community Outreach Technicians.

I thought it was time to reiterate our support for business in this way.

Aye Grodon !

Yer sich a clever Laddie !

Ye've made a mug oot that Cameron - I ne'er liked him maself.

[zara_backdog]

Do you think Darren can come and re-build my wall?

Builder who lives 2 doors away say's he is too busy for such a smal job!

[Gordon Brown]

The government are aligning our recent proposals to support those who lose their jobs due to US subprime and bad lending by banks, with new measures and initiatives. One of those initiatives is to focus on high technology services, IT and science and engineering.

To this end we are increasing work permits to allow highly skilled migrants to come here and train the UK workforce, and also offering tax incentives to large companies that move the work offshore, thereby freeing up UK workers to retrain a Social Workers and Community Outreach Technicians.

I thought it was time to reiterate our support for business in this way.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Yes, and many of you would probably make a good bar of soap too.

Jings !


Good to know we're all useful - I think I would like to be a Carbolic soap.

[Purple Dalek]

Many a potential good coder must have stumbled into other lines of work, instead of stumbling into IT as most of us did.

Yes, and many of you would probably make a good bar of soap too.

[expat]

There is a builder at clientco who hurt his back - and desperate to get back to the construction industry.

But there can't be many builders who would make good coders? Except relative to the offshore ones......

Many a potential good coder must have stumbled into other lines of work, instead of stumbling into IT as most of us did.

[chicane]

Didn't you people know that the average salary in IT is 37K?

[BrilloPad]

There is a builder at clientco who hurt his back - and desperate to get back to the construction industry.

But there can't be many builders who would make good coders? Except relative to the offshore ones......

[expat]

...
After being unemployed for the past eight months, the jobcentre referred Darren to a TNG training centre in Bedford, where he is now in his fifth week of an IT course.'
...
Milan.

Darren has been struggling to find work because all he knows is building, but the centre is helping him to develop new skills so that he can move into new sectors. "I'm starting to look at going into another sector until [the building sector] picks back up again," he said.

Not a sector you'd actually want to stay in, compared to construction, then?

[norrahe]

[expat]

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

bonk

(I've just laughed my head off)

Thanks for reviving that one!