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3 Mar 09 - 02:31
Gladstone wrote:Moving to on topic area.
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Nero Higher Spirit
3 Mar 09 - 12:54
So how was the first day on the job (sorta) DC?
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3 Mar 09 - 12:54
Nero wrote:
Sentynel wrote:I did work experience at an electronics engineering firm. They build Inmarsat D+ terminals with GPS units which are used across the world for tracking purposes - the UN use them, the US and UK militaries use them (especially in Iraq), the tuna fishing industry uses them (buoys with temperature sensors that report back their location and the water temperature, used for finding where the tuna shoals will be), shipping companies use them (they created a modified version of the terminal that can form ad-hoc networks, so on a container ship with a terminal in every container, even the ones at the bottom can get messages out), etc etc. I was working on a design with an accelerometer for use on helium-carrying train cars in the US - the car plus its helium payload is worth millions of dollars, and they wanted to know if they were being knocked around by the railway handlers.
It was awesome.
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*extremely jealous*
Wow Sent, it's so cool! You are damn lucky.
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3 Mar 09 - 23:15
I'm not. I'd probably blow the place up by accident.

Work experience sounds kind of pointless if you're doing menial labour and not getting paid for it.


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4 Mar 09 - 01:22
FuzzyLobster wrote:Work experience sounds kind of pointless if you're doing menial labour and not getting paid for it.
It's pointless anyway, it's not representative of a real job, so one can't take experience from it.
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4 Mar 09 - 11:07
David Cat wrote:
FuzzyLobster wrote:Work experience sounds kind of pointless if you're doing menial labour and not getting paid for it.
It's pointless anyway, it's not representative of a real job, so one can't take experience from it.
This is because you've had school-organised places at supermarkets. Mine was fun and useful. (I wouldn't go into engineering as a career though.)
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4 Mar 09 - 12:42
How can you complain? tescos is the land of awesome.
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18 Mar 09 - 17:00
Cool avatar Gingerbreadman.
I'm all for work experience. Compared to the advantages, the disadvantages are negligible.
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3 Apr 09 - 11:56
Why thankyou, I found it on the xkcd images directory. COuld somebody explain to me this "work experience"?
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3 Apr 09 - 14:11
Basically you get an (unpaid) job for a week, which supposedly gives you 'experience of the world of work' which is a load of cabbage =/
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3 Apr 09 - 14:52
Unless you get off your lazy ass and get a decent placement of your own accord, of course..
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3 Apr 09 - 19:52
David Cat wrote:Basically you get an (unpaid) job for a week, which supposedly gives you 'experience of the world of work' which is a load of cabbage =/
Only a week? I have less sympathy for you now.


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