Comments on: Evening Evaluation http://wongablog.co.uk/2005/08/18/evening-evaluation/ like balloons, only with dancing Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:14:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: SpruceGoose http://wongablog.co.uk/2005/08/18/evening-evaluation/#comment-2268 SpruceGoose Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:16:45 +0000 http://wongablog.djcounsell.org/?p=1172#comment-2268 Just reading through some of your old posts posted while I was away. Do not fear, people with degrees as low as 2.2's break the market at 30k plus these days, as long as you are computer literate or remotely involved with the NHS and have a piece of paper to show this then you'll be able to get into a good job and attain the money necessary for concentrating on projects closer to your heart. I know it's your pride that is damaged more than your wallet at the moment but I wouldn't put nearly as much faith in our current academic setup. I mean for Christ's sake we've got kids coming out with twenty GCSE's or seven A levels in one sitting. "What? You say you have First with Honours in the Arts? Errrm...well you see Art doesn't make money - I tell you what, you go it alone for awhile, try to get funding with only 25% of other Arts first classers and let's talk when you've established enough reputation to make ME rich." "What? You have a first in Physics? Join the queue for research funding, if you don't get it...tough! Work in an office somewhere" "Oh you have a 2.2 in computing? Come right in sir! Line up at the trough next to the halfwit Doctors and Nurses we have running our practices and hospitals." Sorry, ranting a little. You probably think I'm bitter but this is not the case. I'm just one of the lucky bastards who got funding. Sorry, always get touchy around results time, something to do with the fact that anyone who so much as farts in the general directions of the tertiary sector gets a leg up and a handshake (or the other way round on second thoughts). Just reading through some of your old posts posted while I was away. Do not fear, people with degrees as low as 2.2’s break the market at 30k plus these days, as long as you are computer literate or remotely involved with the NHS and have a piece of paper to show this then you’ll be able to get into a good job and attain the money necessary for concentrating on projects closer to your heart. I know it’s your pride that is damaged more than your wallet at the moment but I wouldn’t put nearly as much faith in our current academic setup. I mean for Christ’s sake we’ve got kids coming out with twenty GCSE’s or seven A levels in one sitting.

“What? You say you have First with Honours in the Arts? Errrm…well you see Art doesn’t make money - I tell you what, you go it alone for awhile, try to get funding with only 25% of other Arts first classers and let’s talk when you’ve established enough reputation to make ME rich.”

“What? You have a first in Physics? Join the queue for research funding, if you don’t get it…tough! Work in an office somewhere”

“Oh you have a 2.2 in computing? Come right in sir! Line up at the trough next to the halfwit Doctors and Nurses we have running our practices and hospitals.”

Sorry, ranting a little. You probably think I’m bitter but this is not the case. I’m just one of the lucky bastards who got funding. Sorry, always get touchy around results time, something to do with the fact that anyone who so much as farts in the general directions of the tertiary sector gets a leg up and a handshake (or the other way round on second thoughts).

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