Job interviews

[Rhubarb]

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Do any of us get to pick the job we want? I sure the hell never figured I'd be boiling water out of milk for a living.

Careers advisers are to blame, they have no idea of the great work force when as teachers they have never left school themselves.

Both my brother and myself were directed to the same jobs as my parents policeman and wages clark.
I wanted to study boiling test-tubes etc. He wanted to be a silversmith.

I never got to the first interview- because my qualifcations were over shadowed by graduates applying. A couple of years later I found the man who would have interviewed me is now my Father-in-law. He said I would have got very bored.

My brother got to be a coppersmith briefly then when into building computers. He used his inheritance to go back to school and after getting his degree still builds computers but speciality machines that are usually just one offs.

We were lucky

Rich and Ceris have been given bum-deals from teachers who didn't know the person or the career scope of the jobs they pushed them to take training for.
Rich took a college course in a Btech not realising Forensics needs Alot more than a knowledge of Pharmacy, a degree for a start. Not many men do my job- no ladder to climb.
Ceris did an animal care course only to find that every pet-shop salesperson, checkout girl or dog walker is hoping to be a Veternarian nurse too. At least she is more realistic and does have a job...as a checkout girl.