http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v1dgfXjyNM

good luck on your path brother x.

I had to learn a new word to describe the multilayered Wake-Up Kick I took when I read Maas’ account of the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. The word is palimpsest.

You have the same knack for peeling back the historical layers of an issue, and searing it into the memories of your audience, without alienating those of us who hate pretentious academic wankers.

Whatever you choose to do, don’t waste that gift. And congratulations on the initials after your name. You’ve definitely earned them

skype name: Presidentjamie

Though, I am incredibly Atheist. I’m not sure the Church would appreciate how I feel about them.

You would probably be good in communication, i.e. radio, TV.
Might want to try to apply for public TV, where intellectuals listen and would be very interested in your vast knowledge in history, the arts, etc.
Don’t give up on yourself. God gave you a gifted mind to help others. Don’t think about yourself too much, you will become depressed.

Think how you can enlightened the lives of others with your knowledge. Think about joining a Christian Church with young people as yourself. You need to make friends.

Put ads in community papers, advertising yourself as a motivational speaker and by all means let others know you exist and you have some wonderful to share to those individuals who are gifted as you are.
God, our heavenly Father, loves you unconditionally. He really does! Open up your heart and receives God’s unrelentless Love for you, His Beloved. Jesus is your elder brother. Isn’t that good news.

Agape, (the God-Kind of Love)
AW

You have the qualification and, it seems, the passion to share views, opinions and knowledge.

The best teachers at school were the ones that loved the subject matter, could communicate and made lessons interesting.

You would have a steady income, a range of little personalities to help ’round’, a good pension (until the government of the day screw it even further, perhaps) and time to enjoy life, rather than be ruled by the job.

I’m not a teacher, just a parent that acknowledges the huge part under-appreciated, but good, teachers play in society & the future.

You may only personally leave with a 1mb spreadsheet, but you will have helped increase the RAM of countless minds for the future…

I agree with everything you have said……up to a certain point. As for the 18 year old with the car and the haircut..fuck him…i´m sure if you knew him you would think of him as a cock anyway. They typically are those sorts. Means nothing, he probably won´t do anything that you esteem to be in life. Anyhow, i haven´t stirred to make you feel better, rather to suggest a proposal.

Well, here´s my suggestion…and i only suggest it as i have done it myself and see it could help you. First thing or last thing i don´t know, but i think it helps to not pressure yourself with these nostalgias for how life should be, you know that isn´t the case. These stories of settling down, raising a family sound saccharine…26 and over the hill….please.

back to the point, Have you thought about a teaching english as a foreign language? May sound light and unappealing but…

if you have got time let´s speak by skype…thomascallis…is my account. just want to say a few benefits of the job and how it would suits omeone like you.

1, i think you need to change your environment, simple as that, england is underwhelming and not likely to suit intelligent, cynical people like yourself.
2, you can learn your own language in detail.
3, teach your own language well….for income it´s fantastic (if you do it my way), and not too time consuming.
4, most important for me, learn another language well…im sure you´dlike to learn one properly.
5,learn how other politics, mentalities work…its surprising.
6, get some sun
7, get paid well, get private students and have a perpetual skype network of students…for many years.
8, take photos
9, plenty more.

lets have a chat by skype and i´d like to let you know a few things.

thomascallis

get involved
xxx

No one dreams of collating recruitment documentation. It becomes a means to an end. And that end is, to eat at the end of the day. … There is nothing that makes me want to dedicate my life to such tedious and patently transparent bullshit.

So don’t (dedicate your life). Such jobs cannot realistically expect you to want to work beyond 37.5 hours a week. So take the job, take the pay, but don’t give more than 37.5 hours per week – and certainly don’t give too much personal energy to it (as you realise it does not need it so don’t give it).

Then, plan what you want to do with the rest of the week.

The cruel fact of life is that a degree does not prepare you for working life (not even an engineering accounting medical or legal degree). Hopefully a degree teaches you to think. You then need to find a way to earn a crust and then use your ability to think to squeeze as much experience out of your first few dead-end jobs (watch “managers” screw up, watch how “strategies” come unstiched, monitor the culture of the work place). If the job is genuinely dead end – move on after a while to get different experiences (different roles, different sectors, etc.) and show adaptability. But make sure you more “to something” rather than “away from something” when making the move, so that your CV has some coherence.

The job market is stupid at the moment. “They” think (possibly correctly) that it is an employers’ market so they can demand all sorts of attributes. The job ads are probably assembled by a bored clerk cutting and pasting from previous adverts, and similarly bored clerks will go through all the applications chucking out all those that do not fit against a tick sheet (possibly doing stupid things like throwing out applicants with an MEng because they don’t know what it is just that they should look for the magic letters BA or BSc).

Oh and one other thing. Unless you can con them into thinking that you are an extrovert – save your energy.

And I fear that other labour markets outside this country are just as stupid and wasteful of genuine talent.

New blog: Futile Business (suitably anonymous so you don’t get sacked)?