Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

misskool

vivatifosi wrote: »

Ben Cohen... Ay Carumba!!!! I feel a conversion coming on..

didn't see you in the strictly thread viva.

vivatifosi

misskool wrote: »

didn't see you in the strictly thread viva.

I didn't hang out there much last year either. I used to go on a lot because I'd watch Strictly by myself, so it was nice to speak to others about it. DH now watches with me, so I tend not to sit with laptop on lap as he's finally showing interest (which I think has a lot to do with Aliona, Ola and Kristina).

Lots of early promise I thought from the group dance though, as well as some absolutely dreadful bits...

michaels

Spirit wrote: »

I think michaels is speaking sense, worth listening to.

I think that is the nicest thing anyone has ever said about me :rotfl:

lostinrates

I watched strictly cos a friend of mine wants to engage in pithy emails about someone on it...who I don't know. I said we'd have to mention Ben Cohen too. Lovely looking, huh?

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

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Also today spoke to a sort of but not really client (confusing relationship) who told me her son who was iffy had indeed gone back to school to do
His a levels. I was delighted, he's got great gcse's in sciences. Oh no, she said, he's decided not to do sciences, he's doing three 'new' subjects...sort of fluffy ones iykwim. A kid, great at sciences, not great at much else, and doing something else not that well regarded by universities or employers. I asked why and she said the school advised him they were 'easier a levels ' and made a really good timetable. I find both reasons depressing.

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michaels wrote: »

There are probably more girls and less geeks doing the 'new' subjects than science as well.....

The poor bloke in Wales in Mystic Trev's post who was moaning about the job interview had done a degree in "new" subjects. The fact that you can build up three /four years of debt to get a qual that makes you struggle to get a retail post is alarming.

Our higher education sector is one of our biggest exports. Wonder how long that'll last when we inflate the job market with people qualified in nothing an employer can use or need.:(

Rant over!

michaels

Is it as simple as that though - there are jobs in 'Documentary, Film and TV' and they are probably so popular that they can be very picky and only choose those with a relevant degree - problem being that there are probably 10x as many graduates in the subjects each years as there are jobs and the degree doesn't cover that many transferable skills. So if you want to get in to that career you have to do the degree but do the degree and you still only have a 10% chance of getting the job so should you abandon your dream because the odds are against you?

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Is it as simple as that though - there are jobs in 'Documentary, Film and TV'

This has started a new topic of conversation here...what people we k now on those industries ( and its veering into other media ) read at uni. And whether they went,......

( we're having to google people know...awful.)

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

This has started a new topic of conversation here...what people we k now on those industries ( and its veering into other media ) read at uni. And whether they went,......

( we're having to google people know...awful.)

Back in the 80s I worked for a film company. Absolutely hated it. The people I worked with had come up through the technical professions. Writers read English at Uni, some studied journalism too. There were also lots of people with family connections. I never met anyone with a media studies degree, though I appreciate "that was then, this is now". I started as a runner, moved into post production and left pretty rapidly.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

:rotfl::T

Exactly right.


(I know have to go and unbag all my stuff that I chucked into bin bags on my rant about de cluttering and getting rid of 'my' stuff so there would be more room for resident parents 'plastic cr4p' and dh's unpacked boxes

:o

I have less stuff that's 'mine' rather than 'ours' than I realised donwn stairs. I don't know how I feel about that. Crowded out mainly.

awwww. ....sending a virtual hug. I know how you feel though as our 'stuff' has been packed up for 3 years now.

I am struggling with living through our renovations and I am not unwell like yourself either. I can't imagine how difficult it must be for you.

Today, I had to pack all but essential clothes for the next 2 months and I will now have to wear a rotation of the same thing for 9 weeks from now on .

Having no kitchen is getting to me big time now and the back of the house has finally gone....just trenches for the ground-works and lots of mud.

No heating for us either (though it's not needed yet) and hot water by immersion again.....which is a pain as we keep forgetting to flick the switch.

We booked a holiday for Sept 26th for 9 days so the builders can get on with the messy stuff unhindered. They will feed the cats too . As they are OH's friends, we are in safe hands.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Back in the 80s I worked for a film company. Absolutely hated it. The people I worked with had come up through the technical professions. Writers read English at Uni, some studied journalism too. There were also lots of people with family connections. I never met anyone with a media studies degree, though I appreciate "that was then, this is now". I started as a runner, moved into post production and left pretty rapidly.

We have!'t come up with a single person yet who read media studies, but appreciate they probably work with people who did.



On the plus side, I was talking to another young man briefly about art yesterday, who knows ( in his words) no art history but is keen on making art. I was suggesting that an understanding of what's gone before and what happens now contextualises what he produces....and he was talking about access. I was able to say proudly that actually the BBC has had some ruddy decent arts programming recently. Its had DH and I and (thankfully) more knowledgable friends shrieking at the tv pointing out errors at times...but in general its excellent IMO.

Better than nothing certainly. Bbc does stuff like that so well. If people with media studies degrees are involved, ruddy good for them.