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brienne89, I finally managed to catch up with you on here. Thanks.- Current Mood: dorky
Well, I've been on the course, and now, tomorrow, I actually start work at my new job. I'm working for a big German international wine company, that produces top quality wine on its own estates around the world, and then sells it directly to the public. And I mean top quality.... things like German Eiswein, which costs £23 a half bottle (it'll keep for 70 years as well if you don't open it). This is a really new thing for me - no more computer contracts, but then, if I'm any good at this selling thing, no more unemployment either. The mainframe computer industry in the UK seems to be going the way of the dodo.
I was amazed to get this job. I've been out of work since December last year, and then for about 6 months in the year before that.. and in the year before that. Not the best way to live. I saw this job advertised and thought I'd try an application, but as I've never sold a thing in my life I wasn't expecting anything to come of it. But seems they had a different idea, because I got invited for an interview, and for some reason I got offered the job! And from what I hear they usually have lots of people applying for these positions.
Last week was a course - learning all about German wine to start with, about Qualitatswein mit Pradikat Kabinett and all the other categories of top rate wines; all the growing regions; how to make Trockenbeerenauslese wines...and lots of other really useful and interesting factoids. We had a wine tasting, and we did a load of role playing. It was a lot of fun, actually.
So tomorrow is a telephone day. That's when we phone up people who've returned surveys and make appointments to see them for a wine tasting session, and with any luck persuade them to pay for a case or three of wine. And that's about all the job entails. Apart from spending the money of course.
I'm really looking forward to all of this. Should be fun ^_______^
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Congratulations! You have been voted to be the First Counselor of the Senate. Your eloquence with the Latin tongue is well-known, and you have been elevated to a position of authority within the Senate. You are always the first to speak at the Senate meetings (after the Emperor, of course) and are a very powerful ally (or enemy) to have. More than likely, you have the backing of some of the military, which could come in handy should you ever decide that being the Princeps Senatus is not enough for you... |
My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Latin sayings Test written by NurseTim on OkCupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test |
I don't think that's too bad considering I haven't done any Latin since about 1970.........
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I don't really know what the truth of the current issue is, but I can offer this bit of observation from something that happened yesterday. I've applied for a job working in the control centre of one of the regions emergency services, and so yesterday morning I went to an assessment test session. This was intended to test our basic suitability for the role, which includes handling emergency calls from members of the public.
There were three tests, all about the basic theme of being able to accurately record details of a call. The first one was a handwritten dictation test, in which we had to do nothing more complicated than to write down the text of one of the emergency service's manuals as it was read out loud by the tester. The test checked for the use of the correct version of words according to the context, and we were allowed no more than 13 spelling mistakes.
Now here's the interesting thing in relation to these A level results. There were 17 of us who turned up for this test. Most of them were in their early 20's, by the look of it. Out of those 17, only 4 people passed this initial dictation test. This means that 14 out of the 17 got more than 13 spelling mistakes in a piece of text that was no more than about a page and a half of handwritten A4 paper. The other interesting thing here was that of the 4 who passed, which included me of course, 3 of us were at least 40, and one was a guy in his 20's who was rather appalled by the result, and said that the reason he had passed was that he had taught himself proper spelling and punctuation, as they didn't teach it at school any more. The testers also mentioned that this was the lowest pass rate they'd ever had.
So there's my contribution to the A level results issue. OK, so the pass rates are up. But how is it that out of all the people who turned up and took an elementary dictation test, only one person in the 20's age group could actually pass it? There's some discrepancy there, surely? I know these results are nowhere like definitive, but they seem to me to indicate that something is not right - after all this was a pretty random sample, and to be honest I would have expected that the sort of people who would apply for such a job would be reasonably proficient at writing skills.
The 4 of us who passed that dictation all passed in the other 2 tests as well, so we've been invited back for a proper interview on Tuesday.
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