Do you ever get the feeling life is a fight?

Miró

studentphil wrote: »

It seems to be the case that to win the fight for a job is statitically very, very unlikely.

In that case:

a. learn to proof read
b. give up completely

Miró

studentphil wrote: »

As far as I can tell life is made much easier if you go to a top 10 uni and get a nice job where all the training and a clear career structure is there for you.

Round and round and round and round and round and round we go....don't you ever get dizzy phil???

Quasar

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scottishlass

studentphil wrote: »

As far as I can tell life is made much easier if you go to a top 10 uni and get a nice job where all the training and a clear career structure is there for you.

Why take the easy route when you can have much more fun fighting for what you want out of life??

tinkerbell84

studentphil wrote: »

As far as I can tell life is made much easier if you go to a top 10 uni and get a nice job where all the training and a clear career structure is there for you.

nope.

one of my colleagues went to Cambridge. (not that spectacular - she grew up there).

she's a complete cow, thinks she's headed for great things and has applied for promotion several times. she always comes last. her feedback is always terrible. she's lousy at interviews, and not actually very clever. she backstabs her colleagues and doesn't realise that this does her no favours at all.

at 26 she's a very bitter person, with little going for her. but when things get tough she plays the 'i have a degree, it's from Cambridge' card, and people end up liking her even less.

she's a very lonely girl. so much for an easy life.

now do you get the message, or do i need to spell it out.

studentphil

tinkerbell84 wrote: »

nope.

one of my colleagues went to Cambridge. (not that spectacular - she grew up there).

she's a complete cow, thinks she's headed for great things and has applied for promotion several times. she always comes last. her feedback is always terrible. she's lousy at interviews, and not actually very clever. she backstabs her colleagues and doesn't realise that this does her no favours at all.

at 26 she's a very bitter person, with little going for her. but when things get tough she plays the 'i have a degree, it's from Cambridge' card, and people end up liking her even less.

she's a very lonely girl. so much for an easy life.

now do you get the message, or do i need to spell it out.

Having a degree from Cambridge and having a semi- decent job is better than having a job where you only work pt and spend all day staking books and it gives you almost no development and no where to go and nothing really to offer a better job.

pipkin71

studentphil wrote: »

Maybe you have to be brave to keep getting up off the floor time and time again after every knock down.

I literally have to get myself up off the floor every time.

Do you know, the last time, a woman thought I was drunk in charge of my two DDs :rotfl:

Picked myself up eventually though and came home to spend the rest of the day on the computer

Pipkin xxxx

tinkerbell84

studentphil wrote: »

Having a degree from Cambridge and having a semi- decent job is better than having a job where you only work pt and spend all day staking books and it gives you almost no development and no where to go and nothing really to offer a better job.

where did i say she has a decent job

she has no friends

her colleagues hate her

she is never invited on nights out

they won't even make her a cup of tea


but yes, it sounds like she's better off than you :rolleyes:

Miró

studentphil wrote: »

Having a degree from Cambridge and having a semi- decent job is better than having a job where you only work pt and spend all day staking books and it gives you almost no development and no where to go and nothing really to offer a better job.

Thought you loved your job...(staking books
in a sort of reverse-vampire sort of way)!

nearlyrich

studentphil wrote: »

As far as I can tell life is made much easier if you go to a top 10 uni and get a nice job where all the training and a clear career structure is there for you.

I didn't go to uni, flunked my A levels, had a couple of jobs before the children, went back to work in a job below my experience because I needed the money and worked my way up by putting in the hours and the extra effort. No laid out plan, no help from my employer, finally got my dream job and was recently head hunted to an even better position which pays loads more than I ever dreamed I could earn.

Phil if you hate your job start looking for another one, being fulltime won't make you hate it less and looking at what other people have got with envy is not going get you where you want to be in life.

I know we have done this so many times :rotfl: