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#16 Timify

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Posted 19 January 2011 - 03:17 PM

I really want to get certified in something computer related but I have no idea where to start with that. I cant really afford to do any proper college or uni courses, is there anything good that I can get online that would help with my CV?? I dont want to end up paying for some fake certificate or some bodged test that no one reading my cv will have ever heard of. What is the best kind of certification I can get with not loads of money and very little time?


I have MCSE, VCP and CCNP certifications. They are pretty cheap to achieve if you're willing to learn via books and practice exams. I think the Microsoft exams are about £90 each. Its an investment, very worth while even if you know it already. Its good to have the certification to show you DO know and are not just pretending you do.

My local college has courses one night a week, starting at about £300 with a free retake if you fail. I found it easier just to buy a few books, practice the exam style questions, then go straight in for the exam.

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Posted 20 January 2011 - 12:54 AM

i was working in support and i had people scream down the phone because they got locked out there computers :/
and now im only in part time i get screwed at because of someone elses mistake.
a good exam set to go for is the ccna ones, largely recognised,

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Posted 20 January 2011 - 09:00 PM

I am just having a bit of a rant, so feel free to just ignore this. But maaaaaaaaan I hate my job!!

I used to love my job, but now I dread coming in to work every day :'( I wish I could find another job!! I have been calling my job agencies daily but apparently they havent had any new jobs in, and I never get the time to look for jobs when I am at home. I wish I was rich enough to be able to quit my job and think about the consequences at a later date :)

Does anyone know any quick ways of becoming millionaires?? That would solve all my problems, lol. Or maybe have any job vacancies around the milton keynes area?


but just think of the pennies mate, theres a lot of people out there that would have your arm off for a steady income.


Pretty much, without tying to sound too harsh, it’s paying the bills so it can’t be that depressing and all jobs to some degree have good and bad points.

To put it this way I’ve been unemployed for just over 2 years and now no longer claiming, as it’s a waste of time/no longer entitled thanks to the new government.

Just unfortunately for me due to poor management I very nearly lost half my hand in a working accident when I nearly lost two fingers and was still forced to come back to work the next day. Then being hit (quite literally) over the back of my head with a pole and a broken jaw by a fellow employee in a bad mood. Add to that the fact the management completely screwed me up financially by not paying my tax and N.I. (the pay slips I was getting were fakes) I decided to call it quits and Rightly or wrongly walked out. But because of the financial mess from my last proper employer and the fact I walked out of employment, my first 6 months of JSA I wasn’t entitled to.

The government, jobcentre, agencies etc just don’t care about you finding a job, they simply don’t have enough jobs advertised to go round for starters, just getting you off their lists in whatever way possible. Or with the jobcenter every few months being signed off (so your no longer on there list) and then being sent off on “training” to sit in a classroom and being forced to apply for every job in the local paper and internet regardless of whether you had a hope in hells chance of getting it, then being told your not trying hard enough.

I have had another job since but that despite being advertised, as permanent in fact wasn’t. Probably a bad sign overhearing in your initial induction that they had already found someone to replace you, that only lasted 4 days. It takes the jobcentre a week to issue a P45, so my 4 days of employment ended up costing me 3 weeks having to go back and start all over again with a fresh claim.

I've even tried my best and worked for FREE for a few days to try and prove to a couple of employers that I could do the job, yet still got refused.

If anyone who thinks being unemployed is so easy try giving up your job, give all your savings and belongings to charity or something, stop going out, treating your self to nice things on a daily basis and cut all ties with any contacts you may have (most won’t stick around for long anyways) and join the back of the dole cue. Then you can turn into everyone’s play thing, you’re now the reason why this country is in such a mess financially. And don’t even think about trying to better your self, there will always be someone ready to give you hefty kick in the plums and put you right back again.

In other words being employed sucks a whole lot less that being unemployed.

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Posted 20 January 2011 - 09:03 PM

i feel ive read the above before, i think you've copy and pasted that from another thread??

either that or im Mr Meg, mistics long lost partner in crime.

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Posted 20 January 2011 - 09:36 PM

Bits of it are coped and pasted from a past reply made by myself.

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Posted 21 January 2011 - 12:15 AM

damn was going to do the lotto tomorrow.

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Posted 21 January 2011 - 01:26 PM

Wow, it sounds like you (1984mini25) have had a real rought time there!! If you got physically hurt in your last job is there no compensation that you could claim? It sounds as thought you should have taken that last company to court.

Yes by no means do I want to be unemployed! And I do not what to offend all those unemployed people out there. But I still do not think I can keep this job up for much longer. I realise all jobs have good and bad points, but this job is way past just having some bad points. And it doesnt really pay my bills, every month I am ending up a little more in debt. Although obviously it is paying more of my bills that if I was unemployed. I think I just need to put some effort into bettering myself and increasing my skillset, that way I might actually be able to get a job that makes me happy. I am all up for working hard for my money, if the company will just give me the chance to.

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Posted 21 January 2011 - 02:42 PM

1984mini25 I'm in full time employment, but have taken on a couple of weekend/evening jobs in the past. Didn't go anywhere near the job centre though, just popped into the places I fancied working. Dressed smart, clean shaven and polite. National Cars Hire took me on for work, even when they didn't really have a requirment for more drivers. Delivering hire cars is a lot more of a laugh than it sounds, and I got to drive some very nice cars as they also do posh motors under the name of Guy Salmon.

Don't know if you have tried this approach, guess you probably have if you've been un-employed for 2 years. What is it you do by trade? I've been offered a couple of jobs abroad recently, and the money is mental. Company was called Blackwater and another was called fluor or fluor international. They recruit into all kinds of posts. For the Telecomms/IT Geeks, I know there are a lot of civi's working for companies such as KBR. Again, the money is very good. I know a lad that had just started and was on £86k pa tax free. He was only about 23 as well.

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Posted 21 January 2011 - 03:05 PM

im only in 6th form so dont take my word for it but if you record every single email you send them or they send you and just generay keep a long record of data with pin point accuracy and present that to a human resource department of the company or your managers supperiors they should do something about it. but be proffesional about what you do and dont ever mention to them that your collecting everything they are doing. but most importantly dont ever give them the satisfaction of seeing you anoyed if you do then they have succeded.

ill tell you a story about ten years ago know somebody i know was working for the audit commision. he didnt engoy what he was doing as he saw it as a deviation from what he realy wanted to do. after a while his boss did much the same as what iv heard on your post. unfair work scheduals and constant work loads. one day one of his managers made a mistake and called him up for him to help. the guy did some of this guys work and then handed it in to him at which point the manager was happy with it. a week later the manager was being told off for doing a bad peace of work when he insted of telling the truth he dropped this guy in it and put all the blame on him (apprentice style). the guy then went to human resources and his union and complained and as a result receaved 6 months paid working at home. during that time he set up his own business and after the 6 moths was up resinged. ten years on and the audit commision is now going down the pan and the guy runs his own busines still and employes 2 employees that he swares he will never treet the way he was treated and has its own premasis. i know all this because the guy was in fact my father.

i know this probibly sounds sad or stupid
so good luck with your situation i wish you all the best.

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Posted 21 January 2011 - 05:17 PM

Wow, it sounds like you (1984mini25) have had a real rought time there!! If you got physically hurt in your last job is there no compensation that you could claim? It sounds as thought you should have taken that last company to court.

I tried but every time I thought I was getting somewhere my ex employer would twist something round, so it was pretty much his word against mine.

1984mini25 I'm in full time employment, but have taken on a couple of weekend/evening jobs in the past. Didn't go anywhere near the job centre though, just popped into the places I fancied working. Dressed smart, clean shaven and polite. National Cars Hire took me on for work, even when they didn't really have a requirment for more drivers. Delivering hire cars is a lot more of a laugh than it sounds, and I got to drive some very nice cars as they also do posh motors under the name of Guy Salmon.


Strangely enough I was doing something sort of similar fetching and dropping off cars for a local car dealership for mots (so anything over 3 years old) as part of the job I walked out of.

But unfortunately I also happened to find out that partly due to my age and the incompetence of my employer I wasn’t insured to being doing so. Added to the fact I was also driving around in the company van witch wasn’t until I popped into town to tax it that it hadn’t even had a valid mot on it either, with is pretty bad going for an mot station/garage. I’m just bloody lucky I never got court, as it would have been my arse for a spanking and not his. :)

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Posted 21 January 2011 - 07:43 PM

I am just having a bit of a rant, so feel free to just ignore this. But maaaaaaaaan I hate my job!!

I work as a software support engineer, and generally that is a great area to be in.. but my specific job at my specific company just makes me soo depressed. I am front line, soo always on the phone to 'not so bright' customers, and there are only a few of us in the team, so it is always very busy, which in general I wouldnt mind. But my manager has a problem with for some reason (she is a b****, lol), and has done for a while now :( and they are determined to make my life hell. The work doesnt get assigned fairly, and I have got sooo much work that needs doing today that I will not be able to get through. I emailed my manager saying that I need help prioritising all this work and they didnt response. I emailed again a few days later and they still havent responded. I have my yearly appraisal on Thursday and I know they are going to screw at me, and they will always find some way to blame it all on me even if I asked for help and they ignored me. They also put me a on a performance review last year, and because the targets that they set me are well unrealistic it means I have been stuck on a performance review all year and there is nothing I can do about it. :) And just to top it all off, I am actually performing better than anyone in my team atm, my workload is lower, my customers are updated more regularily and I have generally been working my ass off for this company.

I used to love my job, but now I dread coming in to work every day :'( I wish I could find another job!! I have been calling my job agencies daily but apparently they havent had any new jobs in, and I never get the time to look for jobs when I am at home. I wish I was rich enough to be able to quit my job and think about the consequences at a later date :cry:

Does anyone know any quick ways of becoming millionaires?? That would solve all my problems, lol. Or maybe have any job vacancies around the milton keynes area?


Tough situation. Hang in there, I know how you feel.

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Posted 24 January 2011 - 01:36 PM

Ah it is soo tough stopping myself from handing my notice in.. I am glad I have you guys for a bit of moral support on my lunch breaks, lol. That story from Lapider was a nice bit of inspiration, if only I could be that lucky. I have tried recording everything that is happening, but it is hard, and it uses so much of my time trying to take note of everything that I hardly manage to get any work done - and then they DO have reason to moan at me. I am soo tempted to just hand my notice in and spend the next month properly dedicated to getting a new job, I am just abit scared of it all going wrong.

Thanks so much for the support though, you guys have kept me sane in this troubled time. :)




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