(22-03-2017 21:56 )Nadam Wrote: [ -> ]Yet you were saying you could still be in that job to this day? As if you had taken a big risk giving it up.
Yes becasue the person I trained (eraserhead) is still doing the job that I would have done.
I never said anything about it being a 'big risk', the job was a low paid, but secure, job in a childrens theme park. The job would have been something like £10,000 a year had I been kept on. Even back then I was not expected to pay back my student loan untill I was earning £1,600 gross minimum per month.
My only ambition was to join the police, not be a theme park assistant all my life.
But in my arrogance I didn't think it through properly, off season and winter would have been short hours, just park maintance, so it would have been a good little number that I could have worked until getitng a different job. Even if I remained there it wouldn't have been the big I am job with my big I am science degree, but it would have been good solid job over the bast 24 years and moreover, would have prevented me from getting my illness.
You need to understand, that back then people were screaming out for people with science degrees - turns out not around here.
Why do people think they know more than I do here?
Is that enough information? Is this thread about me or Scarlet?
Morel of the story is, don't be counting the chicks etc; and that is all I was saying without goign into all the detail of why I stated it.
(22-03-2017 20:27 )Nadam Wrote: [ -> ]I was not equating a good standard of English with intelligence (although the two tend to go hand in hand). Employers do value things like grammar, spelling and punctuation. That is simply a fact of life.
I suspect you was and moreover, I suspect you notice the odd spelling mistake in my post and it was a slight at me; feel free to deny.
Wasn't this all over a few days ago?
PS,, intelligence and literacey are in no way connected, it is how they diagnose dyslexia, if your literacey falls far below your intelligence, you are dyslexic.