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[katsmeat]

Just now, I was turned down, without interview, for crappy job at the UEA library reception desk. Judging by the skills needed, it could be done perfectly well a 16 year old school leaver*.

So all this education stuff... what exactly was the point? I'm now wondering of all the oh-so-looked-down-upon chavs haven't got the right idea - devoting their days, their lives in fact, to drinking stella whilst slumped semi-comatose in front of Sky on the plasma screen.

Shit... I guess it's too much of a habit to break now.

< goes off to listen to the Yale Open Course, Ancient Greece, lecture 10 - The Rise of Athens >


* Though I'm willing to make a substantial bet that not a single applicant lacked a degree.

Comments

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

welcome to the world of the over educated, you are officially a gen X-er, which sucks, naturally, though you may be able to tap doug coupland for a fiver.

i got bored of being told to my face that having a degree (especially a first) had cost me the chance of job that anyone could do.

but you find a niche eventually - and i can't imagine you not doing so.

[quinophex.livejournal.com]

I figure that you already came up with why you were rejected (and know why you were) if it was fillable with the 16 year old school leaver then you'd be *far* over-qualified. Although, having been working the past month with a school leaver... i'd not trust him with a book, let alone the entrance to a building full of them...