Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Pour it out without going back to the kitchen to do so? You are presupposing a teapot, which most people don't use any more. You make the tea directly in the mug (which is significantly bigger than a teacup) and if you do end up wanting more, you go back to the kitchen for the kettle as well as the milk and sugar - if you ever left the kitchen in the first place, which you probably didn't, because we're all now supposed to believe that the kitchen is "the hub of the home".

I posted that at 9 minutes past midnight, and I hadn't realised it wasn't still Tuesday.

I love my teapot....but tea doesn't stay hot for all that long. I end up going back to put hot water in the pot/make a fresh pot. but its easier knowing all the other stuff is back out there.

Kitchen is the hub of my home....that's why I don't want to let anyone in to see the state of it!

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

shouldn't they go back to America, and take their ''z''s replacing ''s''sand ''er''s replacing ''re''s with them?

It's a Midlands thing. Being from London I found it very odd, but here I am and DS spells me Mommy. He went to a nursery run by a Black Country lady. DD is younger but posher because I'm Mummy to her.

silvercar

Kitchen is now my hub. You can tell how welcome you are by whether I suggest we have coffee perched on the bar stools by the island or suggest we sit properly at the table.

silvercar

Eldest finishes his degree very soon and is now considering doing an MA. A good idea because his degree was not vocational and a masters distinguishes you from the far too many that have degrees apparently.

There is no funding for masters - no tuition fee loans, no maintenance loans, nothing.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

This is really interesting tomterm and pn. An unemployed bf of an acquaintance was telling me recently he couldn't get a job in this field with out ''the certificates'', but it sounds as if this is not so. (I feel its hard to get a job without having a shower).

Programmers don't need a job - they can create their own work.... simply by coding stuff.

And what stuff to code...? For money/profits....? Well, the clues are out there - what are people asking for? Simply write something people want... apps can even be done by people without programming knowledge in the first stages... beyond that you need a programmer, so it's easy to create your own job.

Then there's the MASSIVE freelance market - people that want all kinds of programming doing, not all of it big and clever, some people have small needs.

Programmers and designers don't need a job - they need to realise that most programmers/designers don't work for a living, they're making their own money... and in doing so they're building a portfolio and coming to the attention of people looking to hire such people in 'proper jobs' maybe.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

Eldest finishes his degree very soon and is now considering doing an MA. A good idea because his degree was not vocational and a masters distinguishes you from the far too many that have degrees apparently.

There is no funding for masters - no tuition fee loans, no maintenance loans, nothing.

Are there any relevant scholarships he could apply for? Jobs?

PasturesNew

Everybody's doing an MA these days... because they were all told the same thing.

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

Programmers don't need a job - they can create their own work.... simply by coding stuff.

And what stuff to code...? For money/profits....? Well, the clues are out there - what are people asking for? Simply write something people want... apps can even be done by people without programming knowledge in the first stages... beyond that you need a programmer, so it's easy to create your own job.

Then there's the MASSIVE freelance market - people that want all kinds of programming doing, not all of it big and clever, some people have small needs.

Programmers and designers don't need a job - they need to realise that most programmers/designers don't work for a living, they're making their own money... and in doing so they're building a portfolio and coming to the attention of people looking to hire such people in 'proper jobs' maybe.

A guy on a blog described a computer program in a really small niche market, last week. I've been writing it this week. I'll sell it at $50 a go, it's a great deal - nothing else does what he wants - and it'll save people lots of time.

I estimate over the next two or three years I'll make £10,000 from the weeks work.

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

A guy on a blog described a computer program in a really small niche market, last week. I've been writing it this week. I'll sell it at $50 a go, it's a great deal - nothing else does what he wants - and it'll save people lots of time.

I estimate over the next two or three years I'll make £10,000 from the weeks work.

Crikey, didn't know you could program.... I've a shedload of great ideas.

However, if you're in the Warrior Forum, there's tons of people there gagging for solutions - and it's riddled with ideas of what's needed.

PasturesNew

I am not sure if I have a problem. I am still very unsettled over yesterday's events and I think I really need some help working out what the words are to describe how I've been 'abused'. I was somewhere where they were asking for/inviting feedback/comments, but then we were told "nothing negative". Well, I have an issue with that as firstly I feel that saying that is a negative comment - and, secondly, feedback isn't negative, if it's experience/realism.

So, whenever I said anything I was pretty much left in no doubt I had to !!!!!!.

And everything they were doing was flawed, yet I wasn't able to point this out. So I sat there like a seething lemon.

And they had picked something to work on all day that is 100% outside of my experience/life - and I said this. And I pointed out that they were covering ground that's already well catered for and it was a poor choice of example to build a day on - and gave reasons.... and I wasn't welcome at all.

They had their fixed ideas about what they were doing, and why - and it was rigid and wrong. Yet they said the exercise was to achieve stuff... and I just said they were trying to achieve the wrong stuff... and there wasn't any need for them to be nasty to me was there. I was even told "well if you don't like it you can leave". Which wasn't nice either.

Bunch of idiotic !!!!s.

And so I am very distressed still.

I shouldn't have gone, they misrepresented what the day was about, they were !!!!s.

And I think I need therapy now