There is no difference in passing or not passing cos the market is flat - so
enjoy doing it for its own sake, as a record of what you have done. What
saddens and infuriates me is to see grown-up, well-qualified men (in
particular), "who have been round the corner" and do not exactly come from a
poor background having to do the kind of work we would not have touched with
a barge pole twenty years ago - you know, Excel sheet stock-taking and the
like. The City is flat, middle-class children are working in supermarkets,
etc. Against this employment background, passing or not passing is pretty
much irrelevant (of course nepotism has always worked well for the
bourgeoisie but this has always been in place).
I am looking at the records I have kept of so-called "prestigious" jobs and
I find it's just a laundry list of menial duties disguised as sth important
(with the little aside "information workers will be undertaking project work
in the future but not just yet - wow !". The contracts are getting shorter
and then the projects disappear - how can work be ever successfully judged
against this ?
Publishing, Translation, Design and IT are equally flat, unless you know sth
we don't and would like to share it -
Emilce
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