tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post5593232504047650361..comments2024-01-27T18:00:54.268+00:00Comments on This Is My Blog: Careers AdviceMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11639094548415759560noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-70421053667332133362008-05-22T16:16:00.000+01:002008-05-22T16:16:00.000+01:00I was aiming for a very different career, I love h...I was aiming for a very different career, I love history and was part way into a degree in archaeology, though I don't know what my employment prospects would have been. Then someone showed me how to create a computer model (I think it was to do with calculating food requirements versus resources available) and I was hooked. I now work as a developer for a software company, which lets me work at home and be very flexible with my hours. Just as well really, as things have turned out.DDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13492663951378700643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-33997665588467170112008-05-18T10:22:00.000+01:002008-05-18T10:22:00.000+01:00I know where you are coming from on the career fro...I know where you are coming from on the career front. I still have no idea what I want to do for a living (well, nothing plausible given my circumstances).<BR/><BR/>I have A-levels, but they were taken because I was told I was smart enough to do them, not because I had a career goal in mind :-(<BR/><BR/>And good luck with Tax Credits. Like the DWP, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs are 80% staffed by jobsworth "dont-care-abut-the- customer-as-long-as-I-make- my-arbitrary-target" types, and 20% by caring souls who try to do the right thing, but burn themselves out struggling against red tape and bureaucracy.Pandora Caitiffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02912184784443896172noreply@blogger.com