Just recalled my school work experience
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@eschaton @quinn @Richard_Littler I'm holding out for the Culture.
@cstross @quinn @Richard_Littler I don’t want to let the better be the enemy of the good.
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Just recalled my school work experience.
Career advisor: "What's your dream placement? Think big!"
Me: "I'd like to work in TV, film or..."
Career advisor: "What's your dad's job?"
Me: "Sales rep in a menswear firm"
Career advisor: "Ok, so I'm placing you in a dept store in menswear. Have fun!"@Richard_Littler Career advisor: think big, I know one family where generations of kids like you with unrealistic dreams of being astronauts or cowboys got their start as hereditary rulers of this kingdom at their dad the king's workplace
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@Richard_Littler My school made us do a JigCal which was meant to be an occupational suitability work inventory, and they did it *after* you'd already selected your O-Levels so it was a complete waste of time and told me I should be a Historian.
@Printdevil I got airline pilot.
Computer Scientist was not on JiigCal's top 10 list because it hadn't been invented yet.
Which was odd, because the system ran on a giant Thinking Machine in Edinburgh.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7463561.stm -
@Printdevil I got airline pilot.
Computer Scientist was not on JiigCal's top 10 list because it hadn't been invented yet.
Which was odd, because the system ran on a giant Thinking Machine in Edinburgh.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7463561.stmActually Computer Operator or something similar was on it. It was probably called something quaint like VDUmonkey.
It noticeably didn't have Occultist.
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Just recalled my school work experience.
Career advisor: "What's your dream placement? Think big!"
Me: "I'd like to work in TV, film or..."
Career advisor: "What's your dad's job?"
Me: "Sales rep in a menswear firm"
Career advisor: "Ok, so I'm placing you in a dept store in menswear. Have fun!"I wanted to do something with computers. Build them, program them, learn more about the Internet. This was 1993. In 1995, my senior year of high school, guidance counselor got me an interview with the electronic engineering department head at a local college. She had no idea what she was doing.
Dear reader, I'm red-green colorblind and have dyscalclia. Even if I knew how, I can't read a resistor value to save my life. I could literally kill someone trying to solder a circuit.
