60-90k but can't get a mortgage

Milliewilly

I was taught in metric too but I know how many inches there are in a foot!!!

I agree with B&T comments - the quality of Graduates these days is shocking (and we take on graduates in business / science subjects only!) :eek:

I get emails with 'aloud' instead of 'allowed' 'seam' instead of 'seem' 'there' instead of 'their' and my personal favourite 'brought' instead of 'bought' I could go on and on.


This is basic school leaver common sense let alone graduate level!

FATBALLZ

Milliewilly wrote: »

I agree with B&T comments - the quality of Graduates these days is shocking (and we take on graduates in business / science subjects only!) :eek:

I get emails with 'aloud' instead of 'allowed' 'seam' instead of 'seem' 'there' instead of 'their' and my personal favourite 'brought' instead of 'bought' I could go on and on.


This is basic school leaver common sense let alone graduate level!

Many senior management (ie people who are 45+) in the company I work for make exactly those types of spelling mistakes, I don't buy this guff that in ye olden days everybody was a fantastic speller.

FATBALLZ

Britain has just taken a battering from an 18 month recession, private sector jobs has been disappearing left right and centre, manufacturers and engineering companies are moving work abroad, the government is borrowing £200bn a year, printing money like there's no tomorrow and has dropped interest rates to 300 year lows..

Britain needs a new wave of creativity, innovatation and investment in order to to drag itself out of the mire, and make itself an economic force again, step in Dave foody...

Dave_foody wrote: »

I've considered buying land and waiting for the price to go up

oh f*** :rotfl:

BitterAndTwisted

FATBALLZ wrote: »

Many senior management (i.e. people who are 45+) in the company I work for make exactly those types of spelling mistakes, I don't buy this guff that in ye olden days everybody was a fantastic speller.

Of course they do and that is because:

1) Being able to spell or even string a couple comprehensible sentences together is beneath their notice. They're FAR too important to concern themselves with such things.

2) Up until about five minutes ago they had secretaries or a secretarial pool to call upon to transcribe their tangled gobbledegook into plain, unambiguous and understandable English.

I once worked for a company-owner who didn't understand the distinction between an estimate and a quotation and he was the a-hole doing the selling. Luckily for him he had a very modestly paid hand-maiden who did understand it and kept his ignorant and inarticulate a*se out of the fire. I did have some fun with him though: he once asked me for my opinion about some idea which I thought absolutely stunk so I told him that I thought it was meretricious. He was delighted with himself because he obviously thought I was agreeing with him. Oh, happy days!

AnxiousMum

A GCSE Math paper from a couple of years ago - a straight line was on the paper, and the instructions were.....'measure this line'.......wonder how many remembered to take a ruler into the exam with them?

Fire_Fox

Milliewilly wrote: »

I was taught in metric too but I know how many inches there are in a foot!!!

I agree with B&T comments - the quality of Graduates these days is shocking (and we take on graduates in business / science subjects only!) :eek:

I get emails with 'aloud' instead of 'allowed' 'seam' instead of 'seem' 'there' instead of 'their' and my personal favourite 'brought' instead of 'bought' I could go on and on.

This is basic school leaver common sense let alone graduate level!

The common sense element is graduates using the spell and grammar checker, not actually being able to spell correctly in the first place. What you are complaining about is remedial education not common sense.

hamblettamaud

Dave, to get back to your OP, I think buying land and waiting for the price to go up would be a waste of money. You couldn't get a plot of land that would be of use to anyone with £90K - if it were available and could be built upon then it would've been sold already. My advice is buy a terrace in a half-decent area and live in it yourself rent-free. And I note that you've worked for £6K a year - so ignore anyone who disses you. Most people would think that beneath them. Good luck.

hamblettamaud

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

I did have some fun with him though: he once asked me for my opinion about some idea which I thought absolutely stunk so I told him that I thought it was meretricious

Don't you mean "stank", or was that a typo? :-)