Little things that irk you.. (no swearing please)

[Colin]

It's because I left school at 16 and ended up in crap paying job I went to University

The hostility towards students is surprising, not everyone does some naff pointless arty BA Mediaology type course.

So what are you doing for a living now after uni?

[kernow]

Nothing - Damn Idiots Furthering Their Education! When I Was Your Age I Was Scrabbling For Slate In The Bare Soil With My Fingernails! Now I'm On 58k A Year! Damn Idlers!


Forgot I'm not allowed to use all caps here, lol gestapo

[Colin]

Pfffft! I wouldn't get out of bed for £58k a year.

[Rep]

So what are you doing for a living now after uni?

Applying for five/six Software Development jobs a day, attending interviews and trying to stay as positive as possible I worked fairly hard to earn that very expensive piece of paper and confident it will pay off soon (only graduated in Summer).

[kernow]

I graduated in 2003, had a few meh IT jobs since then, got fired from one due to having to do electronics practical assistance, and its basically ****ed my whole career up. woo!

[randombs]

If I could go back I wouldn't have gone to uni. All it did was hamper my progress in life. I learned nothing useful but apparently being a graduate is this amazing thing that means you're so much cooler than others and can handle ultrasyllabic words with ease. I'd also not have bothered learning Japanese. What a bloody waste of time that's been.

Possible near-future irk: My GT5 from Shopto still hasn't turned up yet, despite me preordering it last Tuesday and them assigning a tracking number on Saturday(posted it Monday). I bet you £3 Shopto credit that they won't honour their release date promise because I used Paypal or something. Of course, I'd have used the credit card if I wasn't worried they'd get haxxored again.

My IT job at the hotels is probably going, too, as it turns out they hired some c**t from India(I'm Indian so it's not racist to say that. Probably) before I started and he was meant to take my role but they somehow gave it to me with a view to get me into hotel management later on which sounds about as much fun as the GT5 install which I'm yet to experience.

I've had low self esteem regarding my IT skills in a professional sense despite living and breathing computers since I was a child but these past three weeks have shown me what I'm capable of and it's actually quite a lot, considering.

My previous manager(who left a few weeks after I started) called me this week and wants me to work at his new place that has vacancies and has already told them about me. Initially I wasn't so sure as this current job looked like I could turn it into something special but I'm going for that one, now. I don't want to waste another minute on these knobs.

[kernow]

I've had low self esteem regarding my IT skills in a professional sense despite living and breathing computers since I was a child but these past three weeks have shown me what I'm capable of and it's actually quite a lot, considering.

I feel exactly the same, I can probably cope with most stuff but see most job descriptions and instantly feel I can't do it.

[Hohum]

Ditto, although I think part of it is down to the manner in which said job vacancies are advertised nowadays - many are listed with overly-elaborate/obscure/bull**** titles, and have a skill requirement list that would intimidate John Carmack.

[kernow]

Agreed completely.

[endo]

The hostility towards students is surprising, not everyone does some naff pointless arty BA Mediaology type course.

Come on now, are you really surprised? I mean all university students do media studies degrees, and everyone that leaves school at 16 gets a 'proper' job, real life experience and ends up well paid. It really is that black and white.

Just think of all those doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, scientists, architects, linguists and all the other dossers who pissed all that money up the wall for 4 years or more, which we (and by 'we', I mean us hard-working, salt-of-the-earth taxpayers) basically gave them. Bloody ingrates, they don't know they're born!!!!!!!!1!1

[randombs]

I wonder if bull****ting is the way to go, then? Just say I can do X and Y and let them figure out later whether I actually can or not? The hotel owner asked me if I would be able to keep the IT for the hotels running for, say, 2-3 weeks if the IT manager was away for something and I flat-out said no, partly because I most likely couldn't and also because I didn't want to belittle my new manager's abilities(which the owner seems confused about now that I explained just what the two of us have been up to - me handling all the user issues and he dealing with things like strategies for new exchange mail/dns/etc servers).

I pretty much Google anything to find an answer if I don't know it already and it hasn't let me down yet.

[gunrock]

I've had low self esteem regarding my IT skills in a professional sense despite living and breathing computers since I was a child but these past three weeks have shown me what I'm capable of and it's actually quite a lot, considering.

This. All I'll say is that a couple of years ago I moved from a team with a sociopathic boss, to a dysfunctional and factional team, where I was instantly on the outside and stayed for far too long. I should have got out, but as I never run from bullies, I toughed it out, but it resulted in a gradual but steady erosion of my confidence. They then put me on an "improvement program", designed to get rid of me and through that, I found that meeting their significantly-higher-standards-than-normal (and ridiculously short deadlines) designed to trip me up, that "damn! I am actually, pretty, ****ing good...".

The reason I'm telling you this, is that I started looking for work, got a much better job working with some excellent people, now running a team larger than my last manager's and earning 36% more than I did. Now five months along, I'm happy and settled and can't believe I wasted so much time. So my point is that you need to believe in yourself, revise hard on both your prospective employer and the technical areas you feel you're good at (i.e don't get tripped up in a technical test on your subject matter) and go for it.

You are worth it! Swish!</Loreal>

[noobish hat]

TWATS at gigs who talk loudly and leave their phone on when the support act is giving a heartfelt performance. It's so incredibly ****ing rude it's unbelievable - especially if the support act is the WIFE of the main act.

[kernow]

Live music, sounds ****, idiots are there, and I'd rather just listen to the CD at home.

[randombs]

I love live music and find I'll happily listen to something live that I wouldn't by myself because of the atmosphere. What I don't like is how loud it always seems to be. I went to a gig last year and my ears were hurting for the next few days and felt blocked up. Clubs are like that, too, so I never go clubbing.

It doesn't make any sense to me. Who decided it should be so loud, anyway? Someone somewhere must have tried turning the volume up a bit and no one complained and now here we are.