Re: Live & work in the U.K. for a month
Reply #34 - August 13, 2009, 09:19 AM
Yea, just about everyone in the UK wants a computer and internet job now. The market got oversaturated during the late 90s / early 00's due to masses of TV adverts for IT training courses. Computer related degrees are in tough competition with all the 'teach yourself IT, Learn this IT diploma at home, learn everything about computers for a better career' schemes, now to the point that IT related degrees are worthless because just about everyone knows enough about computers to work in those fields.
And yea, its true that most Muslims and Hindus, likely also most other minorities in the UK have a huge interest and knowledge on IT. Ive never studied a single IT course at all, yet I know how to build PCs, run all the office programs with fluency, computer networking and maintainence are a piece of piss, can work with video and audio fluently with Windows movie maker, cubase and pro tools, have downloaded and tried several 3D design programs, can mod for games and tried a little C++ coding when I were 16, addicted to the internet and always read more junk about computers ... All purely out of interest and hobby, not from education.
Yet I still dont aspire to work in IT, even though I wanted to at a young age because the market is very very very oversaturated with too many people wanting jobs in these fields.
Also I didnt get the grades to go onto computer science, but never mind that.
My generation in the UK is very tech savvy, not just with PCs, but mobile phones are very popular too. Too many people that know stuff, hardly enough jobs for them all.
Also when I first started looking for work, I had to start with Christmas temp work, voluntary work in a charity shop, which took 6+ months of applying for just retail work despite having good grades. I never managed to find a summer job between 16-19, and it took years of small minimum pay and voluntary jobs to get a simple permanent job at the supermarket. Most graduates in the UK also struggle to find work, my cousin has straight A grades in her GCSEs and A levels, just got a 2.1 in a Law degree from a good university, and is still working for the same retail company she started working for at 16.
In all honesty, finding a job for just 1 month in any field is going to be near impossible unless you know people who can get you a job where they work.
We keep hearing about how Jack Straw or the French government have mentioned the veil and our doing so puts us in the same boat as them. How so? I want a ban on the burka, neqab and child veiling.
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Topic: Live & work in the U.K. for a month