Reply to: Bob is struggling everywhere now

[mos]

Ever thought of joining Marketing, HR or Management?

I enjoy working as a quant ... so no.

[vetran]

The one thing I do not understand is that if UK is so bad in every aspect including the command of their own language why everybody wants to come here ????

maybe?

I will not allow house prices to get out of control and put at risk the sustainability of the recovery."
Gordon Brown's 1997 Budget Statement

"Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past."
Pre-Budget Report, 9th November 1999

"Britain does not want a return to boom and bust."
Budget Statement, 21 March 2000

"So our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the...the old boom and bust."
Pre-Budget Report, 8 November 2000

"Mr Deputy Speaker we will not return to boom and bust."
Budget Statement, 7 March 2001

"As I have said before Mr Deputy Speaker: No return to boom and bust."
Budget Statement, 22 March 2006

"And we will never return to the old boom and bust."
Budget Statement, 21 March 2007

“A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.”
― Tony Blair

[vetran]

I myself majored in Classical Philosophy I am finding it utterly useless in my current life.

Ever thought of joining Marketing, HR or Management?

[d000hg]

He's in sales Seriously if he had any intelligence would he be in sales?

If you're on a decent commission it's a pretty smart move to be in sales.

[SueEllen]

When I was I permie, I remember a Sales Manager leaving to start his own business, and the Sales Director said that this was like the Star Trek film he had seen recently, that the SM was going to the undiscovered country.

Im thinking surely you mean Shakespeare's Hamlet where the undiscovered country was death.

People are thick, and common.

He's in sales Seriously if he had any intelligence would he be in sales?

[escapeUK]

And respect for learning.... On a contract in Frankfurt I once heard someone use the term "puckish", and then ask a German if he knew what it meant. "Yes," said the German, "from Puck, a character in Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream, wasn't it? Also known as Robin Goodfellow"

When I was I permie, I remember a Sales Manager leaving to start his own business, and the Sales Director said that this was like the Star Trek film he had seen recently, that the SM was going to the undiscovered country.

Im thinking surely you mean Shakespeare's Hamlet where the undiscovered country was death.

People are thick, and common.

[Mich the Tester]

I myself majored in Classical Philosophy I am finding it utterly useless in my current life.

I find Stoic philosophy can be quite useful in the current economic climate.

[mos]

There are even some on here who consider that kind of education - History, Lit - useless.

That's where we are in the UK I'm afraid!

I myself majored in Classical Philosophy I am finding it utterly useless in my current life.

[Doggy Styles]

And respect for learning.... On a contract in Frankfurt I once heard someone use the term "puckish", and then ask a German if he knew what it meant. "Yes," said the German, "from Puck, a character in Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream, wasn't it? Also known as Robin Goodfellow"

The expressions on the faces of the English-speaking contractors there told me that not only would they have no such idea of any equivalent feature of German culture, actually they didn't know as much as that about English culture.

There are even some on here who consider that kind of education - History, Lit - useless.

That's where we are in the UK I'm afraid!

[Notascooby]

I think you're getting the wrong end of the stick.

and you're on thin ice mate...I call foul play!

[Mich the Tester]

What's this got to do with ice hockey?

I think you're getting the wrong end of the stick.

[Notascooby]

What's this got to do with ice hockey?

[Mich the Tester]

Well, I'm pucked.

We all are.

[mos]

Education... in most other countries they don't eff about turning the education system upside down for political reasons every new parliament.
And respect for learning.... On a contract in Frankfurt I once heard someone use the term "puckish"

True we do not have much references to literature in UK IT Departments. In addition this particular reference may sound a bit too similar to certain politically incorrect word.

[Ignis Fatuus]

I thought that as well and then realised they're not on the table because the people in these countries actually speak better English than native English speakers. I was taught English (I actually spoke French before English) in various foreign countries and upon returning back to England, my English was far more advanced than my peers. I think it has probably got worse in the UK now especially when I speak to young non-English speaking people and see how aware they are of the language yet when I speak to young English people, I tend to get some kind of gibberish back....

Education... in most other countries they don't eff about turning the education system upside down for political reasons every new parliament.

And respect for learning.... On a contract in Frankfurt I once heard someone use the term "puckish", and then ask a German if he knew what it meant. "Yes," said the German, "from Puck, a character in Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream, wasn't it? Also known as Robin Goodfellow"

The expressions on the faces of the English-speaking contractors there told me that not only would they have no such idea of any equivalent feature of German culture, actually they didn't know as much as that about English culture.