Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lemonjelly

Generali wrote: »

Last year the fireworks in Sydney Harbour cost AU$650,000 (about £400,000). 1,500,000 watched them so the cost was about 25p/head.

Having seen both displays, I would guess that the London fireworks were a fair bit cheaper as London seems to put up a lot less into the sky.

I thought the display was kinda ok, but brief.

The thing which makes me :eek: is that I was more impressed with the council's display in Wolverhampton on Bonfire Night!

vivatifosi wrote: »

Morning all! How's the heads?

Last year's cost £315k. I'd say there were a lot more this year so the cost was probably higher, however a big part of the cost is crowd control. The big advantage Sydney has over London - apart from being far more spectacular a location - is that you have a much larger viewing area so the cost per head for the viewers attending is significantly lower. The viewing area in London only takes 250,000 people.

Just one year, I'd love to be in Sydney for theirs. Gen, do you know whether you are allowed to charter a boat for it?

See above.

One thing I did think about though, how cool would it be to be in one of the pods on the london eye?:)

Ah well, I downed the book, & today will start on this, which I've been meaning to read for some time:

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Just saw this Pastures. I know its in the wrong part of the UK, but given that you like SEO and Property, thought this might be up your street:

http://jobview.monster.co.uk/Search-Engine-Optimisation-SEO-Officer-Job-York-Yorkshire-UK-91923376.aspx

That is something I could do, but fail at interviews as I say daft stuff when they ask irrelevant questions

I've had interviews for similar jobs .... and I guess they end up choosing the under 30/has a degree person over me.

Also, by the time you get to interview, having ticked all the boxes on the ad, seems to have morphed into a different role that includes aspects I've not done. I think people re-write the job spec between advertising and interviewing.

And nobody sets you a test ... which could be done. They could simply say: "Here's a page, do something that gets to number one in Google that then links to the page we've given you. You have 72 hours". Then I'd get it

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

I thought the display was kinda ok, but brief.

It was a thumping extravaganza of a full 10 minutes (yes, I timed it).

lemonjelly wrote: »

One thing I did think about though, how cool would it be to be in one of the pods on the london eye?:)

I wonder if that's a security/crowd management problem in case of some loony with a bomb. I'd be suprised if the pod was running. Elf N Safetee.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

and I guess they end up choosing the under 30/has a degree person over me.

Have you asked for feedback from interviews? It might help because you can see if the issues are the same and answer the potential fears they do not raise with you in future interviews.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Have you asked for feedback from interviews? It might help because you can see if the issues are the same and answer the potential fears they do not raise with you in future interviews.

No. I doubt anybody'd be honest. In fact, I bet it'd be difficult to even track somebody down that'd be prepared to answer the question. Maybe that's something that happens in big firms/the public sector, but Herbert & Bloggs down the road don't work like that.

John_Pierpoint

PasturesNew wrote: »

So, I've identified (since last Wednesday) a great business opportunity, then today "the break" seems to have appeared and there's a free course in something in a week that I'm trying to book onto, which will enable me to understand and see if I have the skill, which isn't really a skill (any monkey can do it really) .... and I might be entering the fashion accessories market with my "Business in a Box" idea. It's a potential business I am sounding out, that I believe can be run from a shoebox. The Business in a Box concept, means a small, completely portable business. No premises, no equipment, no storage needed.... just a box of stuff. OK, in reality if it works out I'd need a bigger box than a shoe box, but it's 100% portable.

Shoe shine with added accessories - candy stripe laces, that sort of thing?

Seriously though, how do you SELL this box?

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

No. I doubt anybody'd be honest. In fact, I bet it'd be difficult to even track somebody down that'd be prepared to answer the question. Maybe that's something that happens in big firms/the public sector, but Herbert & Bloggs down the road don't work like that.

No, its possible for almost all jobs,

People struggle to be honest by phone but I ALWAYS ask why. I'm quite good at interviews TBH, but had a fair share of rejections, and I think its good to chase why. If you get an evasive or dishonest answer you know, and there is no loss to you in that. But finding why can be an answer...even if just to know not to bother applying to that employer again.

PasturesNew

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Shoe shine with added accessories - candy stripe laces, that sort of thing?

Seriously though, how do you SELL this box?

No. What I meant was that everything I needed to perform the business, all my equipment, all my stock, could all be contained within the box.... so wherever I live I can carry the box with me and still work. I wouldn't be selling the box. It was an indication that I think I've found something to manufacture that doesn't require any special location/space.

In the box will be stuff .... and the expertise is in my head. Then I'd flog it, online, using my online marketing skills to bring me traffic... only other fly in the ointment is design, I need to create some "lifestyle" around it, inject some personality into my copywriting - and I do hate to write like that as it's awkward for me....

Anyway, it's just an idea.

It's cheap, doable, portable, low cost, low risk .... and so I'm going to give it a whirl. If I am successful, you'll buy one of these for next Xmas for somebody you know, just because you think I'm awesome

As for the rest of you ... you're not getting off lightly either :P

lemonjelly

PN like LIR I have generally also sought feedback whenever I've been unsuccessful in an interview. And I can say that I have found it useful, in more ways than one.

I remember once there was one place where I applied for 3 seperate vacancies there. It had been a while & I hadn't heard from them, so rang them up to chase up the applications.

They gave me reasons for rejecting me for the first 2 jobs I was interested in. Now, the reasons given were so poor (what the woman said, if true, clearly showed they couldn't have read my application form!) that I realised that I wouldn't want to work there, so I promptly withdrew my application from the third job.

John_Pierpoint

PasturesNew wrote: »

No. What I meant was that everything I needed to perform the business, all my equipment, all my stock, could all be contained within the box.... so wherever I live I can carry the box with me and still work. I wouldn't be selling the box. It was an indication that I think I've found something to manufacture that doesn't require any special location/space.

When printing fuelled "The Enlightenment", jobbing printers carried their tools in as case (same idea as those suite cases that open into two halves).

They would open the case vertically in front of them and start setting type - that is why the capital letters are called "upper case".
Setting a line of type had been standardised so that it was composed in its mirror image on a stick - hence the term for messing up "getting the wrong end of the stick".

If you have got a speshul portable skill it makes you a sort of "freemason".