Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

... yes in some areas we need to be the best in the world but the other jobs that will remain will be the shelf stacking and hairdressing and caring that can only be done locally and these are the ones that are unglamorous and seem to be forgotten or worse demeaned

You should remove hairdressing from that list. It's a hidden gem. Years ago I was a PA to Head of [insert posh sciences name] at a Research Institute in Cambridge, I had a friend who was a hairdresser. She was earning bucketloads more than me.

When I was at school, the girls who couldn't read/write were sent one day a week to learn to be hairdressers, so I left school thinking it was poorly paid and for dunces.

Once I discovered how much my mate earnt, I was staggered.

She got:
- wages, quite low really
- tips, quite significant
- a bonus based on turnover

To put some figures on it, when I was earning a "very good wage" of £6k, she was racking up close to £12k.

So, if you have the brains to move beyond hair washing, sweeping the floor, sorting out the towels - and get to be a "stylist", then the world's your oyster. Hairdressing also has 1000 opportunities to earn extra money (cutting for friends/family) or start your own business (hire a chair).

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

blogging is harder than it looks

It really requires one major skill: tenacity.

If you've bags of tenacity, or just major OCD issues, it's perfect.

Any other shortcomings can be overcome or ignored, but if you've not got that oomph then it's not worth starting.

PasturesNew

Talking of the digital divide, even though I am uber-capable and skilled at all this PC literacy malarky, I currently don't have a proper broadband; I have load speed issues and bandwidth restrictions. I also have no speakers - and no printer.

For many reasons we can find ourselves digitally divided.

Loads of people with iPhones etc.... they don't carry printers in their rucksack in case they want to print something off for example.

The more "digital" life becomes, the more barriers that you can encounter.

vivatifosi

GDB2222 wrote: »

To some extent, the Job Centre have got it right. Normally, you sort these people out for them, although you may feel that you are being taken advantage of.

Is there anything to stop you putting up a notice asking for volunteers to help people with job searches? Two afternoons a week, say, on a rota. Isn't that the sort of thing Cameron means by big society, ie people helping each other, making the helpers feel useful, whilst fostering community spirit?

I don't have a problem with people volunteering to do this, but I think it should be done at the Job Centre, not at the library. The reason being we're there to give generalist IT help, they want help doing stuff like writing CVs as well. I've only given you one example, but a similar one is that the local council no longer prints out housing application forms, they too need to be done online, but then we get asked about points allocation and so forth - we don't know anything about this. Similarly DLA or bankruptcy, they all get sent in too, but I have no idea what makes a good DLA application and certainly wouldn't touch someone's bankruptcy application with a bargepole. Plus all of this assumes that there's a wealth of volunteers out there waiting to help out and previous requests for volunteers doing interesting stuff have yielded very few applicants.

Pastures is also right too, at the other end of the digital divide, we offer wifi, but it can't be hooked up to a printer. People can plug in their different devices to our USB ports, but there the support ends because they can't download anything to make them work.

silvercar

There was a time when libraries were for books.

Wheezy_2

PasturesNew and her speakers :rotfl:

4th of April 2008 : Speakers were not plugged in.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I didn't click it. Speakers aren't plugged in.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/9898833#Comment_9898833

17th of December 2009: PasturesNew packs up her speakers.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've packed my PC speakers up, no sounds

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/27928797#Comment_27928797

15 February 2011: Still no speakers.

PasturesNew wrote: »

. I also have no speakers -

PasturesNew, get some speakers. Now.

PasturesNew

Wheezy wrote: »

PasturesNew and her speakers :rotfl:

4th of April 2008 : Speakers were not plugged in.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/9898833#Comment_9898833

17th of December 2009: PasturesNew packs up her speakers.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/27928797#Comment_27928797

15 February 2011: Still no speakers.


PasturesNew, get some speakers. Now.

Blimey ... you stalkers are scarey.

I have speakers, in a box, in storage, about 17 miles away. So I don't want to buy more.

lostinrates

Just watching the news and seeing Berlusconi is going to court in Milan. Same court as us, but we're there again in May not April (hopefully the penulitmate hearing the next one!....a ridicculously long and expensive process.)...I'm impressed they're going to hear his case so quickly. Its really interesting and so different to London, that court build is it...everything in Milan is heard their, civil and criminal. when I think of panting through london in tube breaks trying to get to a different Court it sounds easier, but then, that is a HUGE building and its pretty hard to run on those slippery marble floors in a rush!

tomterm8

http://download-youtube-videos.org/

... I think these days, libraries are for more than books. When libraries were only for books, it was because books were the only information product going. These days, the internet, audio books, videos... they are all important ways of learning new skills.

My laptop has inbuilt speakers. it is a luxury laptop, which I bought for quite an affordable price a year back.

As far as blogging goes, OCD is very helpful. 'Tenacity' doesn't really cover the helpless feeling of blogging away for hundreds of posts, and getting 2 odd russian visitors in your first month. It does work. But slowly.

silvercar

Wheezy wrote: »

PasturesNew and her speakers :rotfl:

4th of April 2008 : Speakers were not plugged in.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/9898833#Comment_9898833

17th of December 2009: PasturesNew packs up her speakers.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/27928797#Comment_27928797

15 February 2011: Still no speakers.


PasturesNew, get some speakers. Now.

You could get speaker for 99p off Ebay, you may even have some freebie ones that came with your mobile? Virtually all PCs will have an AUX socket, so you really have no excuse. Can mail you some if you are desperate.