From: Derek * 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Higher earners 'to retire at 70'
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 20:26:36 +0100


On Wed, 25 May 2005 22:44:01 +0100, GSV Three Minds in a Can
 wrote:

>Bitstring , from the 
>wonderful person Rob graham  said
>
>>We need physicists and chemists and engineers and other people who are
>>prepared to use their brains to achieve something that would be useful to
>>the country, instead of media studies.
>
>We also need plumbers, builders, and electricians.
>However I'd agree we don't need media studies grads. Even the BBC seem 
>to have worked that out, finally. 8>.

I worked for the BBC 1969-72. In those days a young Graduate
female with a proper arts/classics degree from a good University
would be required to work 1 year in the photocopying* suite doing
photocopies so she "picked up the ropes" before sthe could apply
for a job in production as a PA (Production Assistant, timing
shots with a stopwatch and making notes on a clipboard).

* In those days a photocopier was regarded as a figment of
unimaginable complexity. A photocopier operator would be sent away
to Rank-Xerox to do a 3-day course and came back with a
"Rank-Xerox" Certificate, which got framed and hung in the office
to impress visitors.

Those were the days !

DG