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DST

DST

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tip top toker said:
Turned down another job, so crofters cider for me :) cheap and cheerful. Now offer me a real job. Why the fuck is a degree needed to be a telephone salesman?
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It's a fucking joke the recruitment market and what companies think they need for certain positions. A degree for a Sales job, lmfao. Better off coming from a barrow boy background to be a sales man. It's the usual scenario, company looks for over educated people, hires desperate graduates, graduates are then never happy in job, always looking to leave, and customer gets the shitty end of the stick by dealing with someone who doesnae give two fuks. Seen it in so many places. What sort of stint you looking for TTT? If you want to do something in the interim that pays middle of the road, do a Pdip and get into teaching. That's the market my biz parnter and I are trying to focus on. Massive shortages in technical and mathematical teaching roles (and it's only going to get worse). Good luck lad.
 
tip top toker

tip top toker

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DST said:
It's a fucking joke the recruitment market and what companies think they need for certain positions. A degree for a Sales job, lmfao. Better off coming from a barrow boy background to be a sales man. It's the usual scenario, company looks for over educated people, hires desperate graduates, graduates are then never happy in job, always looking to leave, and customer gets the shitty end of the stick by dealing with someone who doesnae give two fuks. Seen it in so many places. What sort of stint you looking for TTT? If you want to do something in the interim that pays middle of the road, do a Pdip and get into teaching. That's the market my biz parnter and I are trying to focus on. Massive shortages in technical and mathematical teaching roles (and it's only going to get worse). Good luck lad.
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No real idea, whatever actually looks like it is interesting and worthy of my £60k investment. First interview I went to a week or so a go, it was just a single room rented out in a run down building, MD flashing his rolex in my face while waxing lyrical about the benefits of the job and his amazing salary, yet clearly didn't give enough of a damn to rent a real office, hire HRs staff, or even offer a base salary. Commision only. I told him that expensive financial obligiations such as rent in London meant I needed a salary, and he started cracking on about how an expensive london rent was meaningless to an oil tycoon in the middle east. Come again? What the fuck has an oil tycoon got to do with me needing to pay rent? It's depressing to think that a £25k salary in London will leave me worse off than my past year as a student. Around £85 a month after rent, tax, travel and household bills. I was also rather surprised that a top London recruitment agency I was talking to yesterday told me that my 8 year gap between leaving school and going to uni would be of serious concern to employers and they'd question why. Really? It's hardly like I was on the dole for that period.

And teaching, ha! Not a chance. Not unless they relax the law on corporal punishment :D Recruitment is not really my cup of tea, but have applied for a 3-year grad scheme which has a range of progression paths, not simply being a "management consultant", "account executive", "graduate researcher" and many other fancy titles which all refer to the job of recruitment, aka telesales.
 
2stonerstrying

2stonerstrying

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D_lad said:
Hello all uk growers in from Northern Ireland 20 for 1g here robbing cunts lol
I'm currently growing 3 white widow big bud and 1 kush my first grow.
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Also Northern Ireland here we pay £100 for 8g the joys of boys in masks-literally!! I'm Scottish and never paid the likes of it til now and we r heavy smokers hence why I've started this new hobbie lol
 
DST

DST

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tip top toker said:
No real idea, whatever actually looks like it is interesting and worthy of my £60k investment. First interview I went to a week or so a go, it was just a single room rented out in a run down building, MD flashing his rolex in my face while waxing lyrical about the benefits of the job and his amazing salary, yet clearly didn't give enough of a damn to rent a real office, hire HRs staff, or even offer a base salary. Commision only. I told him that expensive financial obligiations such as rent in London meant I needed a salary, and he started cracking on about how an expensive london rent was meaningless to an oil tycoon in the middle east. Come again? What the fuck has an oil tycoon got to do with me needing to pay rent? It's depressing to think that a £25k salary in London will leave me worse off than my past year as a student. Around £85 a month after rent, tax, travel and household bills. I was also rather surprised that a top London recruitment agency I was talking to yesterday told me that my 8 year gap between leaving school and going to uni would be of serious concern to employers and they'd question why. Really? It's hardly like I was on the dole for that period.

And teaching, ha! Not a chance. Not unless they relax the law on corporal punishment :D Recruitment is not really my cup of tea, but have applied for a 3-year grad scheme which has a range of progression paths, not simply being a "management consultant", "account executive", "graduate researcher" and many other fancy titles which all refer to the job of recruitment, aka telesales.
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Fuk telesales mate...its a dead end. And you would be selling your soul. 100s of calls to oap's robbing them of cash or something similar. You'd have probably been better taking a degree in plumbing these days.
And just no to people who offer commission only jobs. Didnt even think that was legal anymore.
Its a tuff market getting a job these days.

What was your degree in and what did you get?
 
M

Mastergrow

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bazoomer said:
Your not wrong Tippy, but it's a complete set up with cooler ,& if I diy it will end up like steptoe & son's have thrown it together !
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I say go for it m8, that's what I had on the go, no cooler right enough. Had one of them blue lab guardians for keeping an eye on the res, dear but handy as fuck. I never minded spending cos yoir always gettin it back
 
tip top toker

tip top toker

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DST said:
Fuk telesales mate...its a dead end. And you would be selling your soul. 100s of calls to oap's robbing them of cash or something similar. You'd have probably been better taking a degree in plumbing these days.
And just no to people who offer commission only jobs. Didnt even think that was legal anymore.
Its a tuff market getting a job these days.

What was your degree in and what did you get?
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Well the grad scheme I've just applied for will involve telesales, but in recruitment. Best of a bad situation. At least I might be able to help someone find a real job! My degree was business management and psychology, getting a 1st (which is what I wanted, but do not consider it a real accomplishment, I've had fish that were harder to fillet). Half tempted to say F it, sell my watches, and open up a rifle range including live quarry shooting.
 
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