A Beat, a Bong, and a Bang
Billy Does a Right-Wing Pundit
Billy Does a Vampire in a Tree
Jesus Was an Arab
Mescaline CatechismThe Guardian’s Comments section is running an interesting series of interviews with people in the finance industry. This particular one is about the artificial tests in the banks’ jobs interviews. (There’s also another one about being a thankless, overworked intern.) Look at the tests they have to undergo. They do write mathematical tests, though their [...]
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Brain Teasers at Bankster Job Interviews
Sunday 22 January 2012
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Precarity: Which University Programs Are Worth Doing!
Friday 30 December 2011
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Is there anything worth doing at a university/college, anymore? For the precarity generation, even the professional degree programs are worthless. The BAs (Bachelor of Arts) never amounted to much, anyway. A few of them led to this and that, but most offered no clear path to a known destination. Graduate studies (and the distant prospect [...]
What Jobs Are Left?
Wednesday 21 December 2011
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“creating jobs is not an essential business function, only making money is“. John Kozy. I just heard, on Stephen Colbert, that CNN is laying off 50 editors and photojournalists because it is relying on iReport! Not that the death of magazine/journalism/etc is , uh, news. But, seriously, what sort of jobs are left anymore? Music [...]
Barefoot College. Precarity. Charity Businesses.
Monday 12 December 2011
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It may not obvious immediately, but, to me, this is the intersection of many of my thoughts with respect to education/schooling; precarity and the end of employment; and aid/charity as a business. More on this later. Note that there is not much difference between what these women do, and what your local Best Buy, or [...]
Now, Even a Degree Is of No Use!
Wednesday 7 December 2011
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They used to tell you to get a “college” degree. Now that even that fraud bears no fruit, they blame you for getting yourself into debt with a useless degree. The thing is though, even professional degrees are mostly useless!
Occupy The Status Quo
Tuesday 29 November 2011
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“So we struggle, in our own humble way, to destroy the United States!” (See 1:20 to 1:50 of the documentary Making Sense of the Sixties:) I try not to cut people down for trying, but I can’t help but observe that Occupy Wall St’s 99% do not want fundamental change; they want only the status [...]
Living on $610 a month.
Tuesday 29 November 2011
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Headline: “Surrey MLA Brar pledges to live on $610 a month”. I have not RTFAed (Read The Fuckin Article), but the headline made me think: Living on $610 for 1 month is not going to give you a full taste of living on that much _every_ month. The first month, you are going to have [...]
Just What Did Democracy Get Eastern Europe?
Tuesday 12 October 2010
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Unemployment in Ukraine, and survival mining.
