Lifestyle choice advice please

**Finn** · 27th February 2007, 07:53

Originally Posted by scumdog

(unless you fucked up your young life earlier on or are too short and can't get into the Police).

I was a role model teenager. As for the height thing, they gave that up years ago. Heck, they're even letting in recruits that fail basic training.

**jrandom** · 27th February 2007, 12:14

Originally Posted by Finn

Heck, they're even letting in recruits that fail basic training.

They get stuck on light duties of some flavour, however (which I understand means no 'customer contact') and paid $33kpa instead of the usual $50k until they do pass.

And there were only 4 graduates in that situation this year.

It's hardly the scandal that our eminent Fourth Estate would like it to be.

**Guitana** · 27th February 2007, 12:47

Finish your qual you mug or all that money you have spent so far will be for nothing!!! You can go trapping anytime you like the possums will still be there next year unless they all get a nasty sexually transmitted disease and die!!!

**ManDownUnder** · 27th February 2007, 12:52

Turn it on it's head...

Someone with the qualification and 5 years experience in industry should reasonably expect to earm...$??

Vs..

Someone trapping for 10 years is expected to earn ... $??

Now - let's talk bikes, fuel and fun - especially in respect of their costs...

**The_Dover** · 27th February 2007, 14:14

Originally Posted by ManDownUnder

Turn it on it's head...

Someone with the qualification and 5 years experience in industry should reasonably expect to earm...$??

Vs..

Someone trapping for 10 years is expected to earn ... $??

...

you know what, i'd be really fucking interested in the outcome of such an investigation.

**ManDownUnder** · 27th February 2007, 14:25

Originally Posted by The_Dover

you know what, i'd be really fucking interested in the outcome of such an investigation.

Is your boss so tight he squeaks when he walks??

**Finn** · 27th February 2007, 14:37

**The_Dover** · 27th February 2007, 14:39

Originally Posted by ManDownUnder

Is your boss so tight he squeaks when he walks??

I thought that was the Alpinestars boots?

**ManDownUnder** · 27th February 2007, 14:43

Originally Posted by The_Dover

I thought that was the Alpinestars boots?

Same altitude. but no - it's his arse.

Speaking of your boss - I owe him lunch at some point dammit...

**vifferman** · 27th February 2007, 14:57

Originally Posted by renegade master

getting a degree gets you a job, not job training or understanding of the subject you studdied.

Not necessarily. It's not a job ticket, and nowadays, every Man, Jack and his dog has one (the dog probably has one in shitting and arse sniffing), so all employers do is rank the job applications, and throw out most of them. If you're not amongst the top few, you're still fucked. Yeah, you might have a dgree, but you'll be up against someone with Honours, or a Masters, or 3 or 4 degrees.

Originally Posted by renegade master

my dad only had his diploma and he now commands heaps bro.

Things have changed since your dad's day, bro.
#2 son left school at 16 with no quals (apart from a Linux certificate), and three years later he's a Systems Manager. But he's also amongst the smartest 1% of the population, and he's auto-didactic, and has been studying electronics, communication, computers and programming since he was 7 years old.
That's the exception rather than the rule.
I spent 5.5 years at university, and I earn less in real terms now than I did in 1987.
So?

Originally Posted by renegade master

You learn heaps when you get the job, uni just teaches basic principals and formulas (which a spreadsheet replaces the need for..... hehe)

True.

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