Papa Manual

In contrast my experience of driving through snow in a Mini is rather different! Same here; big let down with the snow so far. Hardly any of it has actually stuck, it's just ridiculously cold. It seems most of it is localised to the South East. Apparently lots of snow in Stoke on Monday!

Greetings all.

The Pixies are helping me crawl through the first essay I've written in seven years...

You better had.

I think of.... your mum? Ok I have no better. Stoke is pretty wet mind. Guernsey is practically tropical.

Damn right.

Ok. Trials riders of the north against trials riders of the south; who'd win? Rules: No skinny jeans and it must also be filmed using a sensible aspect ratio.

Discuss.

I think it's been and gone.

Here

Lots of change, most of which has been positive. Finally got to uni; now I've got to focus on working and not doing my signature move and f**king it up.

I'd rather resolve any problems I have myself rather than chemically.

That was silly good.

Look up the spec of the laptop for the names and numbers of the devices and then go to the manufacturers website. Most of them have the drivers for their products in the support bit.

Good work .

Fair play, good cause and all, but yeah; I know where you're coming from!

I'm at Keele Uni at the moment .

I might be up for popping down too.

I'll probably pop down every now and again at the weekend. Miss riding London.

Beast. I remember seeing that years ago . Shame he's busy with other stuff now.

My experience with PwC was generally bad. I've worked with auditors from Guernsey, London and Zurich and they all seem to have the same lackluster attitude. A friend of a friend used to be an audit manager with them in Guernsey and as a qualified accountant with a number of years audit and fund management experience behind him, he was only earning slightly more than me (I was totally unqualified, just with the right company...). The working conditions are generally accepted to be poor due to the hours and competitive nature of the job, not to mention the boredom. We also had their tax advisory people in at one of the first places I worked to assist the in-house lawyers and accountants with a reasonably complicated tax structure composed of a series of blocker corporations. They made no changes to the structure itself, merely the aesthetics of it, such as a few names of the corporations and then even colours on the presentation to be presented to our client. That cost thousands with no actual real input. They didn't even really comment on the structure itself. KPMG on the other hand; brilliant. There's still the boredom, especially in the lower echelons, but pay is far more performance based and your career track is based far more on your performance and qualifications rather than how long you've been there and how much corporate dick you can suck. I get your point, however I suppose it's all relative. If, for example, you wanted to teach RS or philosophy or something like that, then you'd need the degree. Also, whereas you and I perhaps wouldn't place that much importance on such degrees in context with the working world and career progression, some people may be able to justify it to themselves purely due to the interest they have in a given subject. I'd love to study RS to be honest...

The sort of company that would only look at degree graduates (unless you're applying to be a professional, ie doctor, lawyer etc) is probably not the sort of company I'd ever want to work for. Damn right. I was in the same position. I found it very hard to get a job I knew I could do in my sleep just because I lacked the letters. Was hard enough getting into uni as well!

Do it now. Or better yet, just don't bother.

Do it tomorrow

Think it's mostly the locals and myself. Anyone still up for it? Weather forecast says sunny periods and the winds will have dropped quite a bit as well.