Jump to content

London Contingent


spirit_of_town_hall

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 41
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Cool, oil and gas is something we werent even told about at school, I wish I had been.

 

STH

 

 

My high school counsellors were absolutely useless. It wasn't until years after I'd graduated from university that I discovered there were so many occupational choices that would have appealled to me and our counsellors didn't know a damn thing about. Yet counsellors were higher paid than the teachers! :(

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I got into the game by following family traditions, both my grandfathers worked at the refinery and so did my old man, those were the days when you followed the family and worked at the same place, I started out at 16 and only went to Uni in my early 20's.

 

My Careers advisor asked me what I wanted to do for my LSD, he of course meant Libra, Solidus and Denarius (Pounds Shillings and Pence) but I found it funny him asking me how I was to score some acid.

 

It's a shit career, Pro's are its well paid, Con's are I have to work in some of the biggest assholes of the world, Algeria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Saudi not quite the best locations you just have to make the best of a shit hole, I am an expert xymologist (Master Brewer)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 3 weeks later...

I'd have loved to go into hotel management - good lifestyle, decent pay, working around the world in non-shit holes.

 

You don't want that. 24x7 responsibility, if in a good hotel chain, greet dignitaries, cope with unsatisfied customers. Hardly any hospitality industry pays less than good hotels.

 

My Uni friend, was with the Hyatt and was getting about a half what I was doing while in banking business.

At that, he was IT Manager while I was an engineer.

 

Remember that Strauss-Khan guy who had stayed at Waldorf Astoria an had an interaction with an illiterate migrant woman.

It was an 2,000US$ 1 night hotel and they still employed whatever cheap staff they could find.

 

That goes all the way up - no money and joy in the hotels.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.


×
×
  • Create New...