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Thread: The Lucky Country
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31st October 2005, 11:21 AM #16
I wont talk about my 35 occupations I've had in my lifetime that I do not have any papers for but carried out successfully without ever getting the sack.
My grandson was doing a two year Tafe course in computers both in software and hardware and also learning how to write webpages. He became so frustrated with the course because he knew more than his teachers and wasn't learning anything and was showing the teachers how to do things and spent more time helping the other students to do the work.
He ended up leaving before getting his certificate and went and got a job working and running the service dept for a guy building computers, repairing them and fixing up their software problems and setting up networks. He writes professional website on the side.
The biggest problem he has now that he doesn't have his papers.
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31st October 2005, 12:11 PM #17
Originally Posted by silentC
Bruce C.
catchy catchphrase needed here, apply in writing to the above .
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31st October 2005, 12:14 PM #18
I got a trade in aircraft instrument making
Pretty limited field huh?
Spent 30 years in warehousing and distribution, spoke at syposia, was well regarded as knowing my apples. The best thing I do now is turn all sorts of timber, some for a profit but I love the love jobs as well.
My father was a boilermaker by trade so I have that background as well - built a sabot sail boat at 16 and have rebuilt a number of cars including my 1st car - a Morris Minor.
Qualifications - Trade Certificate - Associate Diploma in Business Administration
The qualifications mean very little - Life skills are something that is totally undervalued - I can read and troubleshoot Cobol and Basic, Heat treat steel and numerous other engineering jobs but not certified, plumbing, electrical, pneumatic. Mind you no-one wants to know these days - coz they want a piece of paper that really just says we've taught them a heap of useless #### and theres no assessment of ability at all.
Okay I'm off the soapbox now and a pox on all those who insist on their little pieces of paperPerhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston Churchill
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31st October 2005, 12:27 PM #19
Originally Posted by E. maculata
"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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31st October 2005, 01:05 PM #20
Just listening to the news on the radio. Govt wants to change apprenticeship visa rules to allow employers to take on apprentices from overseas. Unions say it will deprive local young people of jobs because it will give employers access to cheap labour from Asia and elsewhere. Vanstone says it will help employers who are having trouble finding skilled staff locally. Hello? Skilled staff? Isn't that the point of an apprenticeship - to become skilled?
Hell in a handbasket...."I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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31st October 2005, 02:00 PM #21
Originally Posted by silentC
I have noticed lately that all my mates are looking like old geezers though...........hmm wonder what's goin on there? :eek:Bruce C.
catchy catchphrase needed here, apply in writing to the above .
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31st October 2005, 02:20 PM #22I have noticed lately that all my mates are looking like old geezers though"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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31st October 2005, 02:25 PM #23
The Sun Herald ran an article yesterday quoting a mob who do background checks for employers said 1 in 20 had criminal records 60% lied about their criminal record and up to 50% of resumes were falsified in some way including not having a degree etc
This company started off 3 years ago with two workers and now has 55 employees doing checks
I wonder what qualifacations you need to do that
The trouble with life is there's no background music.
Ashore
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31st October 2005, 03:00 PM #24
Originally Posted by E. maculata
I feel good today Silent Bob.
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31st October 2005, 03:30 PM #25
I think we're still, marginally, the lucky country, but not as lucky as we were.
HI works in nursing. She says that the new University trained Sisters are completely useless, as compared to the old apprenticeship scheme who became productive from about 2nd year on job. She also says that these degree nurses have enormous and totally un-realistic expectations of the job. They quickly become frustrated, then dis-illusioned, then leave.
Consequently we have nowhere near enough nurses and those that are there have a mean age of over 50! This makes it's contribution to the gigantic cluster frcc that is today's healthcare.
Nobody can stuff up a working system like government, well meaning do-gooders and status seeking administrators and Union officials. These latter two were desperate to move from 'trade' status to 'professional' and killed the old system stone dead.Bodgy
"Is it not enough simply to be able to appreciate the beauty of the garden without it being necessary to believe that there are faeries at the bottom of it? " Douglas Adams
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31st October 2005, 04:18 PM #26
Originally Posted by ozwinner
There was a young boy called Wyatt
Who was awfully quiet
And then one day
He faded away
Because he overused White
Floorsanding in Canberra and Albury.....
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31st October 2005, 07:27 PM #27
Originally Posted by E. maculata
Oh how I envy your easy childhood . We lived 20 miles from school and the day my horse died I'd only just left home . Had to drag it to school and back home again .
Rick
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31st October 2005, 08:19 PM #28
Originally Posted by rick_rine
What bliss to have a horse! We had to make do with a unicycle. For seven of us. And it didnt have a wheel! Tell kids today that and they don't believe you...
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31st October 2005, 08:37 PM #29
Well I am an experienced flight simulator and I am just waiting for the day when the air hostess says the Captain has dropped dead can anyone please take over.
Englishmen can still do anythingwoody U.K.
"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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31st October 2005, 08:44 PM #30
Now the federal Government is talking about visas for "skilled worker " Plasterers , smash repair workers . Well golly-gee surely we should be able to train Australians for these occupations in the lucky country .
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