Politics

[Renton 21626]

14 minutes ago, spongebob toonpants said:

Brigit and Vorders just had a couple of toots before a night out on the pull

 

 

 

Nice to see Bridget is gettting the hang of this politics malarkey with the de rigeur oversized necklace. 

[Meenzer 15530]

5 minutes ago, Renton said:

 

If AI can replace a human translator then surely it can eplace a human calculator?

Just saying.

 

Teaching it is, then!

 

 

 

 

[Alex 35083]

28 minutes ago, Meenzer said:

 

Teaching it is, then!

 

 

 

 

I was going to mention the civil service but, whilst it’s worked out ok so far and I’ve managed to reinvent myself to a degree, I’m not sure I can actually bring myself to recommend it  

[Meenzer 15530]

1 hour ago, Dazzler said:

 

You can try AAT. It's the level below the professional qualifications (CIMA, ACCA, ACA etc). I think it's been developed a lot since I studied it years and years ago, but it used to be that if you're already knowledgeable of the basics/intermediates you can skip the first level(s) to cut out a lot of wasted time.

 

I think it's available at most colleges these days, and there are plenty of distance learning options I think.

 

Or skip that and go straight to the cert level CIMA. This lot do a lot of free study materials (I think all their course books are available to read online for free): Free CIMA Certificate Level Courses - Get Started Now (astranti.com) and it's pretty cheap to buy the extras, I qualified through Astranti and it was infinitely cheaper than places like BPP and Kaplan (my company at the time still paid for it like)

 

Much appreciated, thank you!

[Meenzer 15530]

Just now, Alex said:

I was going to mention the civil service but, whilst it’s worked out ok so far and I’ve managed to reinvent myself to a degree, I’m not sure I can actually bring myself to recommend it  

 

Tbh that's also quite feasible, especially with one of the main passport offices etc. being around here - there's plenty of options. Probably feels like less of a life sentence when you're not going down that route in your early 20s too

 

 

[Renton 21626]

1 minute ago, Meenzer said:

 

Tbh that's also quite feasible, especially with one of the main passport offices etc. being around here - there's plenty of options. Probably feels like less of a life sentence when you're not going down that route in your early 20s too

 

 

 

You're in an excellent location workwise, good access to London and the home county new towns. Take your time and try to move into something you'll enjoy or at least not hate. No offence to the bean counters, and it well compensated, but accountancy? 

Teaching, could you get yourself into a university or private school? 

[ewerk 30611]

 

[Alex 35083]

28 minutes ago, Meenzer said:

 

Tbh that's also quite feasible, especially with one of the main passport offices etc. being around here - there's plenty of options. Probably feels like less of a life sentence when you're not going down that route in your early 20s too

 

 

Actually I’m pretty sure there’s one of the places for growth / government hubs in Peterborough 

[Alex 35083]

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-peterborough-hub-officially-opened-as-part-of-120-million-investment

[Gemmill 44881]

If my lass and everyone else in her work circle is anything to go by, teacher would be a really bad move. Every fucker wants out, and the career change people that they get coming in later in their lives hate it just as much.

[PaddockLad 17262]

Yeah apparently the 6 week summer holiday is mostly spent dreading going back to 15 hour days trying to discipline some other fuckers’ wee fuckers

[Renton 21626]

14 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

If my lass and everyone else in her work circle is anything to go by, teacher would be a really bad move. Every fucker wants out, and the career change people that they get coming in later in their lives hate it just as much.

 

True, I know countless anecdotes like this. I think private schooling would bebetter but no doubt the competition for places is high. And I assume Meenzer would need a PGCE. I had assumed these would be free from fees but this is tory Britain so..... no.

 

 

[Kid Dynamite 7029]

18 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

If my lass and everyone else in her work circle is anything to go by, teacher would be a really bad move. Every fucker wants out, and the career change people that they get coming in later in their lives hate it just as much.

One of my mates has just quit as a deputy head in a school. He's doing supplying teaching instead until he can figure out what he wants to do next 

[Alex 35083]

Re:careers. It’s weird how people end up in certain ones. We had a work thing where I used to work at the real tennis court at Jesmond Dene. We’d done a website for them. Anyway, the pro that was there actually lived in the little cottage next door with his family. He’d left his previous job at Cambridge university. He’d been there for about 25 years but was still the least senior of the 3 pros there. He wasn’t posh and had somehow gotten into the sport rather than being a  Cambridge University graduate. The place, though a lush old building with loads of Victorian features was dropping to bits. The members seemed to be   middle aged doctors and the like. The bloke who was the pro seemed to have relocated due to him being able to live next door free of charge gor the duration of his employment there. There seemed to be absolutely no money in it. I just found it a really bizarre career choice. Almost as bizarre as the rules of the actual game. Good luck to him, he was a canny lad and everything but really? 

Edited November 23, 2023 by Alex

[Alex 35083]

2 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

One of my mates has just quit as a deputy head in a school. He's doing supplying teaching instead until he can figure out what he wants to do next 

That’s depressing isn’t it? Because he’ll have been on good money as well 

[Gemmill 44881]

8 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

One of my mates has just quit as a deputy head in a school. He's doing supplying teaching instead until he can figure out what he wants to do next 

 

My lass has thought about doing supply just cos it takes away all of the politics and non-teaching stuff that you shouldn't have to do.

 

She's currently trying to give up her (unpaid) head of year title cos all it means is that every fucking parent who thinks their kid needs special treatment has a direct line into her to deal with on top of all her teaching.

 

It's a completely broken profession.

[Monkeys Fist 42449]

@Meenzer

 

Get on the wagons, man! 
 

[Kid Dynamite 7029]

55 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

My lass has thought about doing supply just cos it takes away all of the politics and non-teaching stuff that you shouldn't have to do.

 

She's currently trying to give up her (unpaid) head of year title cos all it means is that every fucking parent who thinks their kid needs special treatment has a direct line into her to deal with on top of all her teaching.

 

It's a completely broken profession.

That's all pretty much what he said to me 

[Meenzer 15530]

1 hour ago, Alex said:

the real tennis court at Jesmond Dene.

 

I'll have been past that building hundreds if not thousands of times and never realised that's what it was.  

[Monkeys Fist 42449]

5 minutes ago, Meenzer said:

 

I'll have been past that building hundreds if not thousands of times and never realised that's what it was.  

You most certainly will have. 

 

Halfway up Matthew Bank on the way in to town. 

[Holden McGroin 6587]

1 hour ago, Gemmill said:

 

My lass has thought about doing supply just cos it takes away all of the politics and non-teaching stuff that you shouldn't have to do.

 

She's currently trying to give up her (unpaid) head of year title cos all it means is that every fucking parent who thinks their kid needs special treatment has a direct line into her to deal with on top of all her teaching.

 

It's a completely broken profession.

I suspect it’s a symptom of the whole country. Well, anything dealing with the general public.  NHS etc. 

 

People are dicks.

Edited November 23, 2023 by Holden McGroin

[wykikitoon 20146]

1 hour ago, PaddockLad said:

Yeah apparently the 6 week summer holiday is mostly spent dreading going back to 5 hour days trying to discipline some other fuckers’ wee fuckers

FYP

[Alex 35083]

30 minutes ago, Meenzer said:

 

I'll have been past that building hundreds if not thousands of times and never realised that's what it was.  

Like most people I would imagine  

[RobinRobin 11274]

9 hours ago, ewerk said:

 

 

 

[strawb 4251]

13 hours ago, Gemmill said:

 

My lass has thought about doing supply just cos it takes away all of the politics and non-teaching stuff that you shouldn't have to do.

 

She's currently trying to give up her (unpaid) head of year title cos all it means is that every fucking parent who thinks their kid needs special treatment has a direct line into her to deal with on top of all her teaching.

 

It's a completely broken profession.

Doesn’t get any better in higher education, our lass is a university lecturer and it’s just as bad. She gets paid pretty well but if I worked out her hourly rate it would be either hilarious/depressing.

 

Also she is starting to get the kids who had 2 years at home through covid and they are all backwards apparently