Tiger
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Yeah, its making me rant too - i'm gonna stop now! 
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mattk
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im sure its much worse on you though after the year you spent 
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Wrighty
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im 20 i work in IT on an ok wage right on my doorstep, yea i like pishing about with pcs but the way this place works sucks, part of whats keeping me here are the people
i want a job thats rewarding and you can make BIG money in but im not clever nor do i have many qualifications apart from my IT certificates so im sort of in the same boat wondering what to do..
just wish i could win a few million on the lottery tbh 
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Tiger
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Originally posted by mattk
im sure its much worse on you though after the year you spent
You don't know how right you are. I'm suffering blues right now - my only fix is going to New York for a week on Saturday!
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Colin
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Originally posted by mattk
I do 39 hours a week
Work is your life basicly, pisses me off big time
up at 7 in work for 8
home at around 4:30 "exist" till about 11ish then go to bed. Wake up start again
This thread is depressing me
Sounds like your doing ok to me, Im up at 6:30 out door for 7, start at 8:30, finish 4:30 home for 5:30 - 6 0  Soon to be doing 14x 12hr shifts on the trot
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Wrighty
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thats bad shit colin
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Tiger
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Colin - thats heart attack at 45years old kinda shit.
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Ricky352
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Originally posted by aPk
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Originally posted by Ricky352
To be honest its so easy, really if i told you you wouldnt believe me, but boring. I spend my day surfing th web which some may enjoy, like i do, just not for the rest of my life.
My mum did a short stint in the civil service a while ago. Great money, massive promotion scales, was fooking easy money.
She couldn't stand it. They blocked all the half decent websites and there was absolutely nothing to do. Attended a meeting once a week. Do about 15/20 minutes work a day, leave 30 minutes before you needed to.
Shocking waste of taxpayers money TBH.
[Edited on 05-11-2007 by aPk]
Im lucky, we can get on most of the websites.
And your right mate it is an awful waste of tax payers money indeed!
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Jamie
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I cant wait to do 14 x 12 hour shifts then get 3 weeks off (paid)
Not to mention the chance to travel the world (obviously going to have to work your ass off)
Beats the shit out of Mon-Fri 9-5
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Tiger
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This is the thing though with travelling with work - I know people who have travelled with their job. Basically they can tick off the country coz they've been there but because they dont spend much time there and what they do spend there they are working, they see the inside of a hotel room and maybe the immediate area, that to me isnt seeing the world.
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AK
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colin you big feckin jessie ..
I'm doing aroud 12-16hrs a day at the moment, for 45days straight 
[Edited on 06-11-2007 by AK]
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Jamie
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Originally posted by Tiger
This is the thing though with travelling with work - I know people who have travelled with their job. Basically they can tick off the country coz they've been there but because they dont spend much time there and what they do spend there they are working, they see the inside of a hotel room and maybe the immediate area, that to me isnt seeing the world.
Valid point.
Good thing i've already 'seen' the world 
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AK
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You do get to see it, and you can always stay on an extra week after and still get you flights paid for. If you catch what i mean.
Fee has come out to KL, Singapore, Norway to visit me.... i stay on after the job etc, but still use the paid for flight home 1-2 weeks down the line.
BP paid for hotels and hire car in Norway too hehehe
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Tiger
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I guess its great for smaller places, like you say AK - Singapore, KL etc - if you went to Australia though you wouldnt even get out of Sydney in a week coz theres thast much to see.
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AK
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yes.... but then you cant expect to see that much of Australia with work unless you are a tour guide or something.
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Tiger
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Or a Roohide dealer
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Dean B
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Originally posted by Tiger
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Originally posted by Dean B
Electrican- I love my job. Not quite sure what Tiger is talking about on finance terms. I have been doing it four years. I earn about 26k a year. Approved electricians earn 32k+. Self employed is where it's at. There is some serious money to be earned in the trade.
Im not self employed - my earnings were between 16.5k and 19k and I'm approved. I dont want to have to work MY weekends to get a decent wage. All this Part P nonsense finished it for me - why should I have pay more money to get a ticket for stuff I already studied for? Fucking politics basically.
There is money to be earned but you have to be willing to live a quiet life and crawl to the grave silently.
Your cleary being taken for a joke then mate. I earned more as an apprentice. Are you JIB approved? JIB wages rates like about £13.50 for an approved sparky. I do about 42 hours week. I'm not self employed, if i was, i would earn hell of about more than 26k. Agree about part p tho, waste of time.
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Carl
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Been to the job centre after work today; so I could sit down and have a chat with someone, see what was available. I got there, tried to talk to someone at a computer, so got pointed towards a floor staff member, she then started pointing at the computer, so i said "i'd like to see someone, want more of a chat" to which she replied that they dont do that and its all on computer, so I made a comment that I don't want to sift through all the jobs that cater for "the smackheads of Barnsley" to which she took offense, so I said, "you must not live in Barnsley then if you don't understand that comment" and she walked off. Basically I'm raging, all the down beats, smackheads etc who don't care for it get help, all i wanted was a quick chat, for a bit of guidence and I get pointed to a computer. I told her i'd already looked at the site online etc, but that was all that was programmed into her head. 
Tiger, i'm suffering the blues from my time away, coupled with having no money, me and the missus are argueing all the time etc. It's hard, i feel like you, my outlook as changed so much, sifting through all the bullshit is really getting to me now.
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Tom
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They don't do much to help you, agreed. I went in expecting some sort of career chat
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Tiger
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Originally posted by Dean B
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Originally posted by Tiger
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Originally posted by Dean B
Electrican- I love my job. Not quite sure what Tiger is talking about on finance terms. I have been doing it four years. I earn about 26k a year. Approved electricians earn 32k+. Self employed is where it's at. There is some serious money to be earned in the trade.
Im not self employed - my earnings were between 16.5k and 19k and I'm approved. I dont want to have to work MY weekends to get a decent wage. All this Part P nonsense finished it for me - why should I have pay more money to get a ticket for stuff I already studied for? Fucking politics basically.
There is money to be earned but you have to be willing to live a quiet life and crawl to the grave silently.
Your cleary being taken for a joke then mate. I earned more as an apprentice. Are you JIB approved? JIB wages rates like about £13.50 for an approved sparky. I do about 42 hours week. I'm not self employed, if i was, i would earn hell of about more than 26k. Agree about part p tho, waste of time.
Yeah exactly, me and the rest of the guys that worked there - I dont work there now mind you - I dont work for anyone, I dont have a job
One of the guys cleared £27k but he was working 6 days a week and 9 hrs a day.
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mattk
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Originally posted by Colin
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Originally posted by mattk
I do 39 hours a week
Work is your life basicly, pisses me off big time
up at 7 in work for 8
home at around 4:30 "exist" till about 11ish then go to bed. Wake up start again
This thread is depressing me
Sounds like your doing ok to me, Im up at 6:30 out door for 7, start at 8:30, finish 4:30 home for 5:30 - 60 Soon to be doing 14x 12hr shifts on the trot
thats at present, a few weeks ago when we were working in burnley about 40 miles away, we were out for 6 and home for 5 we dont do dinner breaks either!
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kz
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up @ 7:15am
return home @ 6:45pm
i wanna work from home!
[Edited on 06-11-2007 by kz]
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