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PriorMarcus posted:What are some good working from home jobs? I have a pretty good office job, pays well, and I like the people well enough, but I hate the culture of being forced back into the office for no good reason. It's soured me on the entire thing to be honest. I'm not sure if I'd call it a 'good' job (the pay certainty isn't) but I handle insurance claims for mobile tech and we're 100% down to the individual how much they want to go to the office vs WFH. I've been there since March and today was the first day I set foot in the building because we had a business performance update to attend. I'm only working there because I used to work for their competitors and they announced back at the start of the year they wanted everyone back into the office so I said nope to that along with a bunch of others.
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Jakabite posted:I got a 2:1 with 59% in my bachelors. I put in the perfect amount of effort and to this day finessing it that hard is one of my greatest achievements. This is the way. Didn't even set foot in the library in my final year, JSTOR is king.
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Gorn Myson posted:I'm curious to know more about this, because when she moved over there she actually go out and do something in the evening rather than spending them either marking or prepping for the next day. That's actually where she found her biggest issue with Sweden; booze is too expensive. To my understanding what happened was simply heavy deregulation. Scandinavian countries have traditionally had very central education policies and Sweden took a long step away from that some time ago, with schools having much more say on how they do things. This can be very good or bad for a teacher, depending on the school.
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Nov 24, 2023 20:32
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I spent 3 years at Sussex in the early 90s absolutely off my loving gourd on class As in the nascent Brighton illegal party scene and bagged a 2.1 writing a load of immensely silly media studies papers on things like “the abject lacanian / kristevian mother figure in Ridley Scott’s Alien”
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Nov 24, 2023 20:36
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BalloonFish posted:That seemed to hold until the very instant I graduated and suddenly the job market disappeared, our generational expectations collapsed and suddenly we were being entitled for not taking a job flipping burgers. Yeah but you can't really hold that against them - the material reality in the world changed completely with the credit crunch. It's crazy to expect what you were promised, when everything is different now. And by material reality and everything, I mean some made up numbers on a spreadsheet and the vibes of the "market".
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Jakabite posted:I got a 2:1 with 59% in my bachelors. I put in the perfect amount of effort and to this day finessing it that hard is one of my greatest achievements. 69.5% on my Masters which rounded up to 70, distinction for me I'll never not have imposter syndrome
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smellmycheese posted:I spent 3 years at Sussex in the early 90s absolutely off my loving gourd on class As in the nascent Brighton illegal party scene and bagged a 2.1 writing a load of immensely silly media studies papers on things like “the abject lacanian / kristevian mother figure in Ridley Scott’s Alien”
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Gorn Myson posted:Brighton was an amazing place to spend my early twenties. Brighton loving rocked even for a square like me. It's one of the few places I think of as 'home' One of the oddest changes since my uni days is that Dave's bookshop has become a really slick enterprise rather than the seediest of second hand bookshops.
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Ataxerxes posted:To my understanding what happened was simply heavy deregulation. Scandinavian countries have traditionally had very central education policies and Sweden took a long step away from that some time ago, with schools having much more say on how they do things. This can be very good or bad for a teacher, depending on the school.
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Angrymog posted:I wish I hadn't hosed around in university and actually managed to complete my course. 
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Gorn Myson posted:I went to Sussex too but about 15 years later. Never finished the degree but I loved most of my time there. Only bit of advice I'd give to anyone going to uni is that unless you're going to one of the few truly reputable places, just go to somewhere you think you might have fun. Brighton was an amazing place to spend my early twenties. God I miss Brighton. A legendary town of party people
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sebzilla posted:This is the way. JSTOR sucks, not least of all because of the stupid, incorrectly sized additional page they insist on adding to the start of every pdf. [/rant] (Online access to papers through uni is great though.)
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domhal posted:JSTOR sucks, not least of all because of the stupid, incorrectly sized additional page they insist on adding to the start of every pdf. [/rant] Yeah but crucially I didn't have to leave my flat and could sit on my arse playing football manager until 5am instead
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I've technically got a job in an office but it is answering phones for a building society. I am hoping to get the training to enable me to move into mortgage advise inside the next year or so. I got a 2:1 in history from a Russel Group uni and it has meant nothing because I've never worked out how to lie convincingly when getting hired.
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Organisers of pro-Israel demonstration are awkwardly struggling with the fact that Tommy Robinson and his supporters enthusiastically embrace their cause and are planning to attend: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/24/tommy-robinson-not-welcome-at-march-against-antisemitism-say-leaders We can't have racists coming on our pro-apartheid march!
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Ataxerxes posted:That is saying something, since Sweden is considered to be having issues with its schools. Gorn Myson posted:I'm curious to know more about this, because when she moved over there she actually go out and do something in the evening rather than spending them either marking or prepping for the next day. That's actually where she found her biggest issue with Sweden; booze is too expensive. It's a matter of perspective I think. We do have problems, one of which is the "free school choice" system which exacerbates segregation and wastes lots of government cash on dysfunctional privately run schools. on the other hand, school lunches are free, unions are pretty strong and I haven't heard of teachers buying loving pencils for their classes. In general I get the impression our local government and public institutions are substantially better funded, schools, libraries, social care, that sort of thing
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:It's a matter of perspective I think. We do have problems, one of which is the "free school choice" system which exacerbates segregation and wastes lots of government cash on dysfunctional privately run schools. on the other hand, school lunches are free, unions are pretty strong and I haven't heard of teachers buying loving pencils for their classes. That is true, in perspective things are propably better there (and here in Finland). I have met a few British teachers who came to teach in Finland but not the other way around.
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Josef bugman posted:I've technically got a job in an office but it is answering phones for a building society. I am hoping to get the training to enable me to move into mortgage advise inside the next year or so. Thats a shame I thought you worked in a museum or art gallery i suppose maybe covid saw to that
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Pistol_Pete posted:Organisers of pro-Israel demonstration are awkwardly struggling with the fact that Tommy Robinson and his supporters enthusiastically embrace their cause and are planning to attend: I've never understood the appeal of Tommy 'yaxley-whatever' Robinson, he's like an incredibly poo poo Danny Dyer(*)... (*) Danny Dyer: untalented oval office who thinks he's a bit of a geezer.
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I mean if you want nazis you aren't exactly spoiled for choice. He's a loud gobshite which makes him the leader.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Thats a shame I thought you worked in a museum or art gallery I moved away to be with the woman I love. My museum work also was not very well paid at all with me earning more as a call centre floor worker than I did as a team leader at the museum.
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I stayed on in Brighton for a couple of years after my degree and I look back on those times and sometimes think I had more disposable income then than I do now. I bought the latest jeans and shirts and Nikes, I had a raging schnozz habit, bought loads of 12” for DJing and I was out on the town at least 5 nights a week. Fun was cheap back then.
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I, an idiot from Essex, went to university in NI in the late 90s, in part to get away from family etc and in part because it sounded brilliant. It was loving amazing.
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I struggled hard at university and ended up not getting my degree because it turns out I have absolutely raging ADHD lmao And I work in a pharmacy for eleven quid an hour and I'm tired of both my management and the general public and would like a break, but lol Oh well, Friday innit
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HopperUK posted:I struggled hard at university and ended up not getting my degree because it turns out I have absolutely raging ADHD lmao Working this Saturday, so could be better. Keep safe Hopper and hope pay and conditions improve!
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Josef bugman posted:Working this Saturday, so could be better. Keep safe Hopper and hope pay and conditions improve! You too pal:)
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Kier starmer has selected the european anthem as his choice of the piece of music which best epitomises his labour party. Say hello to your burgundy passports.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Kier starmer has selected the european anthem as his choice of the piece of music which best epitomises his labour party. Say hello to your burgundy passports. Is Desert Island Discs still a thing? Is Keith pretending that, on a Friday evening with his important jobs done for the day, he reclines back in a comfy chair, a sensibly-filled glass of wine in his hand and sticks the EU anthem on the record player? Come the gently caress on.
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In a weird bit of synchronicity this was the week where my coping strategies went Ping and I realised I actually hadn’t processed the things that happened at school 20 years ago, and that I needed help right loving now. Would have been fine if I hadn’t had kids of my own, not that I would change a hair on their heads. I went to a grammar school in NI run by religious fundamentalists, I know some other UKMT people now and past did too. Turns out that a lot of the things they told us were actually wrong! we actually aren’t totally depraved and don’t have to be constantly hypervigilant against everything or loathe ourselves for being imperfect. Contentment is not a sin and we do not have to be motivated exclusively by, and trembling constantly in, fear of God! I never believed the God bits but all the baggage is just sticky, apparently. As are the effects of being shouted at and humiliated all the time by grown men who themselves have PTSD.
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sebzilla posted:This is the way. I’m one of those who’s quite good at rote learning and my bachelors was majority exams with a lot of the same sort of questions, so I tended to do barely any work all year then spend every waking hour doing past papers for about two weeks before each exam season. My dedication to drugs was pretty impressive to be fair so I consider that my main education during uni. That and realising how much fun having sex with men is
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Jakabite posted:I’m one of those who’s quite good at rote learning and my bachelors was majority exams with a lot of the same sort of questions, so I tended to do barely any work all year then spend every waking hour doing past papers for about two weeks before each exam season. My dedication to drugs was pretty impressive to be fair so I consider that my main education during uni. That and realising how much fun having sex with men is We did that in our final year - loads of past papers which had all been pretty similar type questions for the previous 10 years. Walked into the first exam (of 11 for me due to my course selection) - completely and utterly different - even the size of the question paper (A4 instead of A5), format of the questions, mixing bits up from different areas. Having waltzed in thinking "I'll do Q4, Q7 and Q10" most of us came out very shaken.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Is Desert Island Discs still a thing? Is Keith pretending that, on a Friday evening with his important jobs done for the day, he reclines back in a comfy chair, a sensibly-filled glass of wine in his hand and sticks the EU anthem on the record player? Ode To Joy is a pretty listenable piece of music at least unlike most anthems. Well, unlike the British anthem anyway which is a dirge
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forkboy84 posted:Ode To Joy is a pretty listenable piece of music at least unlike most anthems. Well, unlike the British anthem anyway which is a dirge It's entirely probable that he picked it by accident with the idea that it made him look intellectual and cultured. Now he's going to be facing headlines of "Traitor Starmer Will Take Britain Into EU".
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:We did that in our final year - loads of past papers which had all been pretty similar type questions for the previous 10 years. Walked into the first exam (of 11 for me due to my course selection) - completely and utterly different - even the size of the question paper (A4 instead of A5), format of the questions, mixing bits up from different areas. Having waltzed in thinking "I'll do Q4, Q7 and Q10" most of us came out very shaken. I did poo poo myself that this might happen but I’m fortunate it didn’t. I’d have Whole Lotta Love as our national anthem if it was possible, as it’s an absolute loving banger and we should all be proud to be from the same place as such a sick band. Sadly that won’t happen so tbh I’d not mind Jerusalem as it is a loving tune, undeniably. Then again I’d never sing or play an anthem of such an awful state, so maybe not to both the above.
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crispix posted:countdown clock tune would be my choice for national anthem Only if everyone sung it
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I remember overhearing our English literature teacher saying "It's a loving poem!!!!" to another teacher right as we were getting to go in to our GCSE exam we had spent months revising short texts for. We had never analysed a poem. We all failed. In uni I went through clearing as I discovered Diablo II the winter before my exams and basically hosed the entire final year up and played games instead. I ended up in a London uni doing a graphics and games programming degree that I dossed about on and nearly got chucked out for not attending, despite high test scores. I discovered MMOs in my second year when I moved in with some course mates and basically spent the next 5 years doing random modules I was interested in between leading raiding guilds. Was where I met my now wife who was a goon and was 15 at the time. She thought I was a childish idiot and didn't speak to me again for several years when I ended up meeting her in another game and she had gotten herself a job at Mythic. I eventually forgot to hand in my class registration one year and didn't get my loan. I had to move back in with my mum where I sat about thinking I was a complete failure until I met someone in the LOTRO guild I was running asked what my job was, as I was stupidly organized and great at herding a massive group of roleplaying drama queens to go slay dragons. I explained it and he just said "CV" Turned out he worked at Codemasters as a server engineer and he got me through the door for an interview. Turned out raid leader to QA is a viable career path. Rest is history. Now I do excel all day. Sometimes even in my free time to help out the NHS.
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