Liz
@lizpeecock.bsky.social
Plays music, oboe, viola, trumpet. Interested in better support for SMI. Dinosaurs. Autistic diagnosed at 62.
You do realise that the opposite of semi professional is semi amateur?
December 21, 2024 at 10:54 AM
You do realise that the opposite of semi professional is semi amateur?
I think you will find that they still are. The problem with doing anything in IT at university is that what you have studied will be out of date before you have finished the course. It is better to work in it and learn on the job so therefore an apprenticeship.
December 21, 2024 at 10:53 AM
I think you will find that they still are. The problem with doing anything in IT at university is that what you have studied will be out of date before you have finished the course. It is better to work in it and learn on the job so therefore an apprenticeship.
That is the opposite of forward planning.😂
December 21, 2024 at 10:46 AM
That is the opposite of forward planning.😂
What always worried me were the immigrants doing jobs that people in the UK thought were beneath them. Why are they not doing that where they came from and who is doing it there? Health workers being a prime example.
December 15, 2024 at 12:49 PM
What always worried me were the immigrants doing jobs that people in the UK thought were beneath them. Why are they not doing that where they came from and who is doing it there? Health workers being a prime example.
It isn't just teenagers. Anyone in a dead end job could train if we had the colleges for them to train in.
December 15, 2024 at 12:46 PM
It isn't just teenagers. Anyone in a dead end job could train if we had the colleges for them to train in.
Just close the universities. We have too many. Open colleges for anyone of any age to learn trades. The money would attract 20 and 30 year olds who have silly university degrees that have only awarded them debt. Get schools to promote trades over film studies degrees.
December 15, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Just close the universities. We have too many. Open colleges for anyone of any age to learn trades. The money would attract 20 and 30 year olds who have silly university degrees that have only awarded them debt. Get schools to promote trades over film studies degrees.
Why can't we train our own? Some of the universities offering silly degrees are running out of money. Many of them used to be technical colleges where people learned the trades. Convert them back to technical colleges and offer free training in trades.
December 15, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Why can't we train our own? Some of the universities offering silly degrees are running out of money. Many of them used to be technical colleges where people learned the trades. Convert them back to technical colleges and offer free training in trades.
Brick layers are extremely well paid compared to someone trying to get a job with a something studies type degree. If you want to afford to buy your own home a trade is much better than a degree in nothing.
December 15, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Brick layers are extremely well paid compared to someone trying to get a job with a something studies type degree. If you want to afford to buy your own home a trade is much better than a degree in nothing.
This is caused by too many universities and schools telling their students to go to university. We then have unemployed people with degrees that no one wants rather than those same people attending colleges teaching trades and leaving and getting a well paid job.
December 15, 2024 at 12:34 PM
This is caused by too many universities and schools telling their students to go to university. We then have unemployed people with degrees that no one wants rather than those same people attending colleges teaching trades and leaving and getting a well paid job.
I tend to think that a 12 by 12 room inside is heaps better than a shop doorway outside. There is sheltered housing that is no bigger than this and that has a small kitchen and bathroom in it.
December 15, 2024 at 12:30 PM
I tend to think that a 12 by 12 room inside is heaps better than a shop doorway outside. There is sheltered housing that is no bigger than this and that has a small kitchen and bathroom in it.
The irony is that South Africa is thinking of introducing a health system like the NHS. Meanwhile politicians in the UK seem to be in the process of destroying the NHS.
December 15, 2024 at 12:23 PM
The irony is that South Africa is thinking of introducing a health system like the NHS. Meanwhile politicians in the UK seem to be in the process of destroying the NHS.
Including those that think they are supporting it. They haven't thought through how much the insurance premiums are for older people. When they are working it all looks fine but wait until they retire.....
December 15, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Including those that think they are supporting it. They haven't thought through how much the insurance premiums are for older people. When they are working it all looks fine but wait until they retire.....
I am doomed, doomed. Probably not gluten free......
December 15, 2024 at 12:19 PM
I am doomed, doomed. Probably not gluten free......
Bigger population, fewer GPs. How does that work?
December 15, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Bigger population, fewer GPs. How does that work?
Asylum seekers yes. People who are moving because they think that the UK offers a better qualify of life , no. The reason being that what might benefit us also doesn't benefit the countries that they come from.
December 15, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Asylum seekers yes. People who are moving because they think that the UK offers a better qualify of life , no. The reason being that what might benefit us also doesn't benefit the countries that they come from.
Only people who are not autistic could write something like this. Autistic people are discriminated against because we are different to the majority. That majority think that they are normal.
December 15, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Only people who are not autistic could write something like this. Autistic people are discriminated against because we are different to the majority. That majority think that they are normal.
One of the problems is that we don't have enough people with building trades. There is a particular shortage of bricklayers. The institutions that used to train trades people have mostly changed their names to universities. We need more apprenticeships in the trades.
December 15, 2024 at 11:45 AM
One of the problems is that we don't have enough people with building trades. There is a particular shortage of bricklayers. The institutions that used to train trades people have mostly changed their names to universities. We need more apprenticeships in the trades.
OK back to the Uke. You have to keep doing it.
November 20, 2024 at 5:12 PM
OK back to the Uke. You have to keep doing it.
Then if you go on doing it everyday the return to the disordered thoughts after the music gets later. So instead of them coming back straight away they still come back but the gap between the stopping playing and them coming back gets longer.
November 19, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Then if you go on doing it everyday the return to the disordered thoughts after the music gets later. So instead of them coming back straight away they still come back but the gap between the stopping playing and them coming back gets longer.