Universities and the myths

BigBouncyBall

this isn't the usual phil!

He's usually so positive about the future!

studentphil

rubuhoeikanaika wrote: »

Complete bullsh!t. The current CEO or president of mcdonalds, one of the world's biggest companies, was promoted all the way up from the greasy kitchen.


rubuhoe

I dont want to become CEO of a fast food comapny.

I do want to work in local govt and burger burning will not give me the require office experience I need to do that.

BigBouncyBall

what will then phil?

Blacksheep1979

studentphil wrote: »

I dont want to become CEO of a fast food comapny.

I do want to work in local govt and burger burning will not give me the require office experience I need to do that.

Phil you don't need office experience - there is nothing to it, what you need are interpersonal skills and team skills (amongst others). Something that you can learn in almost any, including McDonalds, job.

*edit* when did you decide you want to work in local government? Was it when someone mentioned it was easy with quick promotion and loads of money? Or was it when they said 95% were muppets and you think you may fit in? You have to work for anything worth having in this life.

Need_More_Money_2

studentphil wrote: »

I dont want to become CEO of a fast food comapny.

I do want to work in local govt and burger burning will not give me the require office experience I need to do that.

It will give you SOME experience of working and all experience is good for you.
Just because he became CEO of McDonalds doesn't mean you have to follow the exact same path does it? But it does show he learnt valuable skills that could be applied in management roles!
!!!!!! phil get off your @r$e and do something instead of finding excuses for everything

studentphil

pandas66 wrote: »

Whats your point sp?

I have worked as a cleaner, a waitress and in a printers office. They all gave me skills I still use.

I had to get a job,any job as long as it paid. I have a good job now.

So whats your point? You haven't moved off this pc in 3-4 days, have you? Another whinge time?

My parents used to say the world dosn't owe you a living. So whats really your point, what have you failed to tell us that will clear you of responsability for your grade?

Hows the SS whatever? Seen her lately? whats the point of the OP in student savers?

I have been out everyday for the last few days. My point is other special people can get top everything and do not need to work in fast food to do that then I want to know how I can be special myself. So the world just gives stuff to special people with no more effort than I have done, so it is not about being owed anything. I need to become special and then all my efforts will see fruit. I saw her this morning as it happens.

rubuhoeikanaika

studentphil wrote: »

I dont want to become CEO of a fast food comapny.

I do want to work in local govt and burger burning will not give me the require office experience I need to do that.

Sigh, you are a world-class point-misser.

McDonald's kitchen
-> Manager position
-> Hamburger university for area manager training
-> Area manager (at this point you are solely a pen pusher)
-> Take your admin and management skills to the HE sector

You seemingly don't have the skills a university needs. You have to get them. This is a hypothetical route starting from a McJob.

rubuhoe

studentphil

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

Phil you don't need office experience - there is nothing to it, what you need are interpersonal skills and team skills (amongst others). Something that you can learn in almost any, including McDonalds, job.

*edit* when did you decide you want to work in local government? Was it when someone mentioned it was easy with quick promotion and loads of money? Or was it when they said 95% were muppets and you think you may fit in? You have to work for anything worth having in this life.

No, local govt has always been one of my career aims.

studentphil

rubuhoeikanaika wrote: »

Sigh, you are a world-class point-misser.

McDonald's kitchen
-> Manager position
-> Hamburger university for area manager training
-> Area manager (at this point you are solely a pen pusher)
-> Take your admin and management skills to the HE sector

You seemingly don't have the skills a university needs. You have to get them. This is a hypothetical route starting from a McJob.

rubuhoe

I would never get promoted to be a manager anyway, so that is a dead route to getting the experience I need.

rubuhoeikanaika

studentphil wrote: »

I have been out everyday for the last few days. My point is other special people can get top everything and do not need to work in fast food to do that then I want to know how I can be special myself. So the world just gives stuff to special people with no more effort than I have done, so it is not about being owed anything. I need to become special and then all my efforts will see fruit. I saw her this morning as it happens.

You said it yourself: those people are, it seems, special:

They are world-class football players, or smart enough to do a PhD at MIT, or beautiful enough to model for Vogue.

Then there are talented-normal people, who are county-level football players, or smart enough to get a 2.1 or first with hard work, or beautiful enough to get laid in a bar with the aid of a few drinks.

You are done of these things. You are not special. Neither are most people - that's the very definition of special (a positional good, see). Deal with it.

rubuhoe