Fight Together Die Alone

Fight Together Die Alone

is this a topic about war, or business to be honest it can be either or

Recently I have applied to another American Firm in Scotland, and being the third to help me to come to the relization, there is not a great chance of me getting me a Job

currently I am applying for technical support jobs in glasgow and edinburgh, and In interviews I get asked some rather dumb questions, some questions have no point, others your not allowed to ask in this country and others have no revelence to the job

for those who know me well, know that a Tech Support job is the lowest paid job i can do and earnings should start at 18k per year, with 2 weeks holiday

the highest paying job i can apply for is IT Support Manager which earnings start at 21k + depending on how long i have done the job before

I have three years in my belt so 25k is not unresonable

but yet i am happy with 16k jobs so long as i can afford to move to glasgow or edinburgh

but because like i said previously people pushing the wages the it people in glasgow down, the pay i am being offered is 12k

YET I go to interviews with people with less technical knowlege repair and installation experience than me

people who just say "We buy dell" "coz its cheap"

which it aint, i understand the many valid view points to go dell, but you still need a good IT Support on site, I worked for dell i Have seen there standards

and the excuses for not hiring me are, "he does not have 20 years experience in server 2003 like our manager"

christ stupid people are everywhere

I remmber trying to get a group of people together to start a business "Numerous times" if 6 students in scotland worked part time, they could start a successfull business in there spare hours within 6 months

if you have a big enougth product and there willing to do it without pay for a year, then a medium scare business is quite easy

but so many dont trust anyone, or no one is willing to lead, and nothing gets done, anytime i tried to lead people resent me

so starting my own business is slim to difficult, and getting employment with some of these firms is also the same

I find the whole concept of business has become parasitical, are we all becoming part of walmart by default

finally would you spend close to 6 years in a higher education, uni college, to work in a mcdonalds, because the pay and hours are better than working for some firm, with the IT knowlege that is outdated so much that there head of IT has to lie about there so called "20 years of experience in 2003"

for those of you who dont get it, server 2003 has only been out for a few years, and server 2000, what 7 years in total not even 10

Lost Skills & Lost Talents & Lost Independence

As you see above are three pics whichI am going to explain shortly, Now I want to talk about scotland, Employment and Education,when I was talking to people about these items they had no idea what they were, what they were used for, or how the were used

Being I have been in the Unfortunite position to be part of the FULL "job Seekers" treatment and have attended two colleges, two univercitys, worked for several companys in three diffrent classifications both in sacture and policy there is a few things I can tell you about the system and the people in and around it.

The unfortunite truth is, scotland, england, Ireland Wales, just like the rest of the world, is full of idiots

there is very little learned in High school, and even less that is usefull, or practical each year more and more old skills we need are cut out, and new skills simplified.

mind you is addededucation was suppost to be diverse, if the spent all that money maintaining a good standard, and widening the amount to learn, and just EXTENDING THE AMOUNT OF TIME TO DO IT, then perhaps we would have more intelligent people in this world

After leaving unvercity with the job and education experience to get a 23k a year job, "especially since i worked a 21k job for 3 Years" because the quality of IT people in glasgow has become so drastically low, the going rate is 12k, thats right ladies and gents an IT person is now as underpaid as a worker at mcdonalds even more so even.

also the demand for certain qualfictions "CORPORATE QUALIFICATIONS" that only last a set amount of time before expiring, and can cost as much as a full years wage to do 2k for MCP course, 5k for mcsa course, 1.2k for A+ qualifcation.

Now some of you may think these are great qualifications but in reality there useless

A+ is a level of education i got at standard grade computing the lowest of the low, nowadays a lot of the questions are no longer relavent, and if you can tell the diffrence between one type of printer and another, then chances are you know enougth to pass, one question was why your not suppost to clean the ball in a mouse with oil based lubricantes.

yes questions that stupid

MCP is equally as dumb, as its basically the "HOW TO GUIDE FOR WINDOWS XP" yup yup Pointy Pointless with a extra large P on top

and MCSA is the same as MCSA but for Windows server 2003, again if you used windows server 2003 for any length of time its pretty standard in your brain

But during my travels i still meet grown adults with no idea what they want to do job wise, but know nothing of anything, so how do they know what they want to do if they dont know anything

they dont know history, they dont know any more than 1 religion, they dont know about other countrys and back to those pic's they know nothing about a number of old skills or trades

for example the first pic is of a quail, a Delicay to be eaten, who's eggs make a great side dish or part of a 1st class meal

the second pic is of a Wet Stone, and by the way I have asked this numerous times and guess what 0, I repeat almost no one I asked knew what it was, only when I asked a guy due for a dirt nap did i get a correct answer

a Wet stone is a sharpening stone to sharpen knives and bladed tools etc a concept which no one seemed to understood when i explained it to them

and finally the one where i got some answers, which made me want to cringe in terror one being a Microphone

the last one is a morse code Key, I could have picked Steam Engineering, and various masonary and wielding methods that are in short supply, some so short there is no one to teach let alone any pupils, yet the demand for these type of employees are marginally high in some areas, or a knowledge of it is, required

but for people to know if they want to learn it, they have to go on a course, how can one become an accoutant without doing an accountants course, how does one know they want to be a nurse unless they have been helping one.

sure money is a motavation for most, but what about simply being happy and fufilling a need

Blah maybe im just too logical for an illogical world

yep in this country if your unemployed for 6 months you get put on a placment which they then sign you to being "employed" which to clarify you are not, but to continue to receive benefits or your minor job seekers allowance, you have to do about 30 hours of work at this placment with only £30 quid over your current jobseekers allowance totalling less than £150 per 2 weeks,

this allows the goverment to say employment is up when its not, and be honest who can live on £150 per two weeks, its £50 for council tax per month, £600+ on bills per year just for lights heating and that 1 tv

what about travel money, food drink, by army standards the nutrition of a pot noodle is ok, but should not be eaten in excess for long periods of time over 1 month and psychogists have proven such eating habits will lead to social depression, manic depression, and emotional unstabilitys its not exactly part of high school training to hunt for food, and what is there to hunt ? rats? cats? neds"chavs" ?

yep i am sure our goverment is pro cannablisum

Take My Advice or Dont Ask For it

Every So often someone would ask me for computer advice

Personal Recommendations, recommended computers, Recommended Brands, Recommended Printers, Scanners

More Often and quite often to the point of great stress to myself, the ladies and gents in my life dont like my Advice

There is no single perfect answer, no such thing as a perfect answer without cost or doing somthing, This is somthing people dont seem to understand, there is no such thing as a small cheap reliabile, quiet, power full pc, with decent accesories from one manufacturer with decent warrentys and support

NO SUCH BRAND EXISTS