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  1. Journo Tyke

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    RE: Question for Journo

    Going for a job outside the media now mate...

    I have actually been offered a job back at Ventura in HR/recruitment and I have 2 interviews later in the week for two large national recruitment companies so it doesn't seem as though it's hindering me much at the moment. If I actually get interviews I'm confident of impressing... it's just I don't want any applications to be binned in the future due to only getting 90 credits in my final uni year, having got 130 in Year 2.
     
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    Always someone else to blame

    If you're lecturer was crap why didn't you attempt to get better revision notes from elsewhere? Or mention it to someone before it got to this stage?

    Thats like Andy Ritchie keeping the squad we've got now, and then when we miss out on promotion blaming the fact he didn't do something about his crap revision notes (the players) in january when he had a chance to speak to his lecturer (the chairman).

    Ok, might be a stange analogy, but when I passed my A Levels at grades C and D when my attendence for the year was less than 50% I didn't blame my revision notes for not getting me A's and B's I blamed the fact I'd rather run a pub for the day than turn up for college, which I always used to do.
     
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  3. Journo Tyke

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    RE: Always someone else to blame

    Of course you have a point, but you shouldn't have to do that... when you have umpteen other modules to do, you don't have time to do extra stuff and research. You pay £1100 to be taught properly. I didn't go 'official' with a complaint because I knew it'd get nowhere, things like that never do.
     
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    RE: Always someone else to blame

    No but you are blaming others for your short comings regardless.
     
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    RE: Always someone else to blame

    Aye maybe so... I know it's not entirely down to that, I know it's also because it's a tough subject plus it isn't very interesting. Hmmmm.
     
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    Still blaming other people

    You just work with the pack of cards life deals you, and you got dealt a crap lecturer, but decided, rightly or wrongly, to do sweet f.a about it, so now the time comes to do a re-sit you can't blame the fact you're notes aren't good enough, coz thats an issure you should have solved months ago
     
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    RE: Still blaming other people

    Indeed, I know all that, but I'm still justified in moaning about the lecturer :pff

    PS, you never did return those kits (lookout) (copper)
     
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    You're quite correct I never did, HOWEVER......

    Mr Risdale never returned his promise of bringing us out of the Red and into the Black so I've kept them as compensation. They're out of date now anywhere, I'm sure the BBS XI have been granted a new kit for this season. If you ever get the chance to play a team in London I could quite happily bring them then
     
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    RE: You're quite correct I never did, HOWEVER......

    Don't worry, you can keep em, was only messing :)

    Are you alright, what you doing down there?
     
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    RE: Always someone else to blame

    Go into politics, youd make a great MP
     
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    RE: You're quite correct I never did, HOWEVER......

    I've still got them and never wear them, only kept them due to changing jobs and moving down south otherwise I'd have been a regular attendee at most of the games you guys have played in.

    In Harpenden (near Luton) at the minute managing a pub/restaurant, but I get moved around a lot, Eastbourne, London, Kettering, possibly Rushden soon. Its a nightmare trying to book tickets for our games!
     
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    RE: You're quite correct I never did, HOWEVER......

    Rushden...Fun. with a capital Fun
     
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    RE: You're quite correct I never did, HOWEVER......

    and is that Sarcasm with a Capital SAR???
     
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    RE: You're quite correct I never did, HOWEVER......

    Oh yes,can be a bit tasty on a friday night. especially in summer
     
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    RE: You're quite correct I never did, HOWEVER......

    The Hell-holes of Kettering and Wellingboro aren't too far away but never sampled Rushden. Northampton however can be a pretty good night
     
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    RE: You're quite correct I never did, HOWEVER......

    Wellingboro... know it well.
    Mate who I fish with describes the town centre as an oil slick.
    rushden..some gypsies in the area. number swell in the summer
     
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    We are a major producer of "sugar" based items in the Uk, as a regional sales manager involved with sales and marketing , we do not employee ex university students based on experience of social skill and interaction, ands basic common sense, we find that the "hungry ambitious type linked with good peopke skills flourish every time.
    We employed a ex baker in Newcastle 18 months ago and he achieved top sales person in front of 42 reps UK wide purely because of his "empathy" skills and not the gift of the gab..
    We are finding that there is a glut of Uni students with degrees out there and there seems to be a apathyt that they can walk into any job they want.
     
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    But having a lot of empathy is a bad quality in a sales person surely?! Some maybe, but too much would surely see them fail?
     
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    You could say alot of Degree holders work in dead end jobs.
     
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    They most certainly do Al.
     
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