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If you were a guidance officer

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The dangers of career guidance, "The Graduate" style:

.............

Benjamin: I'm just...
Mr. Braddock: ...worried?
Benjamin: Well...
Mr. Braddock: About what?
Benjamin: I guess about my future.
Mr. Braddock: What about it?
Benjamin: I don't know. I want it to be...
Mr. Braddock: ...to be what?
Benjamin: ...Different.
Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Plastics.
Benjamin: Exactly how do you mean?
Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?

................

Any guidance today would be just about as helpful.

Come to think about it, the job of "Guidance Officer" is itself pretty much out of date, isn't it?

Except in the context of UAVs, I guess.

Now that's another career that didn't exist a couple of years ago...
Posted by Pericles, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 4:21:15 PM
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Become a labour MP. You can then have a limitless credit card with which you can buy untold prostitutes and if anyone asks you anything the PM will back you all the way. Oh and don't forget you get to bash CEO's while visiting their exclusive Chairman’s Lounge to scoff your face on only the best pickings. You'll fit right in, in a country run on parasitism.
Posted by RawMustard, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 6:27:09 PM
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Wobbles

'Care to enlighten us with even a single specific example of a corrupt "climate scientist" or is it just heresay?'

You only need one word Wobbles (climategate). Fudged figures and fudged data abound. Look at the backtracking of the High Priests whose predictions have done nothing but put egg on their face and money in their pocket. Don't forget the scaremongers of the 70's who convinced the gullible we were in for an ice age. They just happened to be 'scientist'. Don't confuse true science with fallacy.
Posted by runner, Thursday, 3 November 2011 12:04:33 AM
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ok I am game.
Take a look, an honest one.
At the two posts above mine.
Any one concerned.
Fearful that what is in them is troubling?
Then what advice would you give these two if it was your job to help them get a job?
No idea my self,maybe start with an education?
Posted by Belly, Thursday, 3 November 2011 6:42:44 AM
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The truth must really cut in huh, belly?

And I don't need a job, make more in a month than you make in a year. The problem is giving half of it to parasites like your lot. And seeing them destroy any chance of my kids having a future to pursue the own freedom of life and liberty!
Posted by RawMustard, Thursday, 3 November 2011 11:21:55 AM
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Rehcub, you have posed the most difficult question possible.
Because any career undertaken must satisfy present conditions of the
economy, but they will need to be adaptable to an entirely different
style of economy in say 15 years time.
In 15 years globalisation will have all but ended and much manufacturing
will have returned but it will not be in the old style.
Deep knowledge of agriculture and soil physics will be very useful.
So a course at Hawkesbury College would give that knowledge as well
as a good knowledge of science.

If the child is pre high school look for the nearest Agricultural High school.

We will not have much if any need of marketing analysts, financial
derivatives experts, or most of the people in financial services.

I know that many here will think all that is nonsense but note the
way that all governments are trying to talk up growth.
Exponential growth has run up against the limits of resources and the
era of growth has ended.
Our economies will now have to adapt to a new regime of food
production, transport and the range of products that we manufacture.

The problem is that no one at this time really knows what industries
will be viable and whether we will have surplus energy in what form.

The one thing we can be certain of is that food production and distribution will have no 1 priority.
Posted by Bazz, Thursday, 3 November 2011 1:34:51 PM
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