MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Damn rumbledOver £100k is easily achievable in today's market for IT wonks, and there are quite a few of those on here (because they have the opportunity to dick about on the internet all day).
Damn rumbledOver £100k is easily achievable in today's market for IT wonks, and there are quite a few of those on here (because they have the opportunity to dick about on the internet all day).
Damn rumbled
Your average IT worker, even on low 6 figures, isn't in a position to hire anyone; they'd still be at the bottom of the totem pole. Just an overpaid industry in general.Gizza job?
I have a friend of a friend who comes from a very MC background. Worked his adult life as a famous DJ and producer, albeit in a niche. Always landed on his feet, got the obligatory large inheritance. Yet is slowly heading towards retirement with the funds largely gone with no provisions having been made.
I’m wondering if always having everything on a plate can be as detrimental as having to fight and save etc.
Funnily enough, the subject of being black-balled came up today in conversation.
Back in the day there was a man called Duncan Ferguson (served time for assaulting an opponent on the pitch) who played for Glasgow Rangers.
Someone was lunatic enough to put him up for membership of the Corkerhill Masonic Lodge in Glasgow.
Come the night of the vote to see whether he would be admitted, there wasn't room in the Lodge for all those who turned up, people who hadn't been seen for decades paid their Test fee so that they could vote. The queue was literally out the door.
Well, the votes were cast, the votes were counted, and he wasn't admitted. Reportedly he asked his sponsor 'Was there a black ball?', to which his sponsor replied 'Have you ever seen sheep shit?'
I’d have thought he’d have fitted right in.Funnily enough, the subject of being black-balled came up today in conversation.
Back in the day there was a man called Duncan Ferguson (served time for assaulting an opponent on the pitch) who played for Glasgow Rangers.
Someone was lunatic enough to put him up for membership of the Corkerhill Masonic Lodge in Glasgow.
Come the night of the vote to see whether he would be admitted, there wasn't room in the Lodge for all those who turned up, people who hadn't been seen for decades paid their Test fee so that they could vote. The queue was literally out the door.
Well, the votes were cast, the votes were counted, and he wasn't admitted. Reportedly he asked his sponsor 'Was there a black ball?', to which his sponsor replied 'Have you ever seen sheep shit?'.
Be comfortable enough that you end up with no concept of money?How’s about I give the first one a go and get back to you with the results.
Put me down for the experiment too, please.Be comfortable enough that you end up with no concept of money?
I remember being confused when I first heard that, because I always thought buying your own furniture was something to aspire to.Didn't one very snotty Tory MP say of Michael Heseltine 'He had to buy his own furniture'.
I remember being confused when I first heard that, because I always thought buying your own furniture was something to aspire to.
I haven't said they blame anything on anything. Just wondering from afar.Most comfortably off people are perfectly capable of managing money to the extent they don’t run out of it. I don’t think your FoF can blame having money for their impending financial ills.
That's all true. But we live in a society - nobody is 'self-made.'More and more you need to self advocate on orde to access any of the umbrella help or the safety net.
THatcher’s enterprise intititive scheme made a difference to a lot of people. The comparable things these days are either non existence, hidebound with things you have to prove and demonstrate or so invisible that no one knows about them.
I think we might be talking at cross purposes. I don't think cultural capital is about art.Not true. There’s a ponzI scheme aspect at the top end of creative art that relies on this stuff but there’s also a whole bunch of hard won hard scrabble starving in the squat art that happens when people sacrifice all the ladder climbing stuff. And that’s mainly men, cos women are doing the laundry and finding the bargain food to feed the family on at the expense of their own dreams.
Your average IT worker is definitely not on 6 figures. I've met a few head of IT people who get that sort of salary in the city but must of the people who are earning big money in IT are sales and company director types.Your average IT worker, even on low 6 figures, isn't in a position to hire anyone; they'd still be at the bottom of the totem pole. Just an overpaid industry in general.
We started off married life with everything second hand, a lot of it given.I remember being confused when I first heard that, because I always thought buying your own furniture was something to aspire to.
Huh? Surely a couple or at least a household of 2 workers need less per person?
I think we might be talking at cross purposes. I don't think cultural capital is about art.
I can lend you an AK47 if you like.Oh just fucking great.
Does BA offer an exemption on knives being carried on Glasgow flights, or do they offer them out to passengers on arrival?
There's interplay between economic, social, and cultural capital. What I mean by the latter is the sort of stuff in your last para - the social mores that help some people to 'progress.'You mean access to (foreign) travel and holidays elsewhere, activities extra to work/school, hobbies that need implements and accoutrement, clobber chosen for style?
That relies on cash and leisure too.
The daily grind, the rat race, the Office Dragon, Christmas Party, Scolding Email, water cooler moments, missing life events and doing overtime instead, the groaning response of “what’s left of it… “ when someone says “have a good weekend“…. all that is cultural capital too but it’s the culture of capitalism.
Or do you mean the cultural capital that comes from tribe : lingo, social connections, points of reference etc. That’s more nebulous albeit still arguably culture. Bonobos and meerkats have that stuff too.
You mean access to (foreign) travel and holidays elsewhere, activities extra to work/school, hobbies that need implements and accoutrement, clobber chosen for style?
That relies on cash and leisure too.
The daily grind, the rat race, the Office Dragon, Christmas Party, Scolding Email, water cooler moments, missing life events and doing overtime instead, the groaning response of “what’s left of it… “ when someone says “have a good weekend“…. all that is cultural capital too but it’s the culture of capitalism.
Or do you mean the cultural capital that comes from tribe : lingo, social connections, points of reference etc. That’s more nebulous albeit still arguably culture. Bonobos and meerkats have that stuff too.
Huh? Surely a couple or at least a household of 2 workers need less per person?
Anyone working in IT for a company you've heard of is making at least 100k, even developers and designers.Your average IT worker is definitely not on 6 figures. I've met a few head of IT people who get that sort of salary in the city but must of the people who are earning big money in IT are sales and company director types.
Anyone working in IT for a company you've heard of is making at least 100k, even developers and designers.
Mate, they really aren't.Anyone working in IT for a company you've heard of is making at least 100k, even developers and designers.
Mate, they really aren't.