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How do you get to do that job....?

TheCatWoman

I was thinking with all our sensitivites with smells, hearing, colour vision and stuff, why we aren't more in demand for jobs where those things are assets?

I mean how do you get to become a perfumier, a wine taster, paint colour designer. These things just pop up on tv and I sort of take them for granted, but how do you get these jobs, are there colleges that teach them? Can you imagine being with your schools careers adviser and being asked what you want to do and saying you want to be a perfumier, if you even knew such a thing existed? I could just imagine the look that says 'you're not taking this seriously, so we'll put you down for shop work'.

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  • TheCatWoman said:
    our sensitivites with smells, hearing, colour vision

    I was going to write a reply late last night but couldn’t see my phone, a neighbour two houses away was smoking weed in his garden. My bedroom window was open and the smell caused my eyes to stream with tears that felt like acid. So I don’t think our amplified senses would help with certain jobs, but I do a job that requires great attention to detail.

    I went to a boys school, we had a careers officer but nothing was expected of us, the town had a lot of factories when I was young. the biggest was a glue factory that took up an entire road. Teachers would comment that we would end up working in the glue factory or be in prison.

    It was quite normal to end up in your fathers trade, if your father was a builder then you would leave school and end up on the shovel. Window cleaner, plumber, some followed fathers as bin men. Many companies ran a ‘closed shop.’ Employment had to be offered to family of employees first.

    My wife went to the girls school in the same town, the girls who the teachers liked were allowed to take a typing class, it was expected the rest would end up working in factories until they became baby factories.

    In the last year of school I wasn’t allowed to do a day release to the local college for a motor vehicle course , I was in the top sets for English and Maths, It was thought I wouldn’t benefit from the course . I was the only one to go into the motor industry and left school with very low grades. I had to start as a YTS apprentice, I couldn’t get a normal apprenticeship as I hadn’t done the school access course. £25  for a 40 hour week and loads of stigma.

    Someone mentioned undertakers, my late father worked as a collector and pallbearer when he was young, his mother laid the bodies out before collection. The management of the companies was very much a family affair, the next generation would be expected to take over.

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  • TheCatWoman said:
    our sensitivites with smells, hearing, colour vision

    I was going to write a reply late last night but couldn’t see my phone, a neighbour two houses away was smoking weed in his garden. My bedroom window was open and the smell caused my eyes to stream with tears that felt like acid. So I don’t think our amplified senses would help with certain jobs, but I do a job that requires great attention to detail.

    I went to a boys school, we had a careers officer but nothing was expected of us, the town had a lot of factories when I was young. the biggest was a glue factory that took up an entire road. Teachers would comment that we would end up working in the glue factory or be in prison.

    It was quite normal to end up in your fathers trade, if your father was a builder then you would leave school and end up on the shovel. Window cleaner, plumber, some followed fathers as bin men. Many companies ran a ‘closed shop.’ Employment had to be offered to family of employees first.

    My wife went to the girls school in the same town, the girls who the teachers liked were allowed to take a typing class, it was expected the rest would end up working in factories until they became baby factories.

    In the last year of school I wasn’t allowed to do a day release to the local college for a motor vehicle course , I was in the top sets for English and Maths, It was thought I wouldn’t benefit from the course . I was the only one to go into the motor industry and left school with very low grades. I had to start as a YTS apprentice, I couldn’t get a normal apprenticeship as I hadn’t done the school access course. £25  for a 40 hour week and loads of stigma.

    Someone mentioned undertakers, my late father worked as a collector and pallbearer when he was young, his mother laid the bodies out before collection. The management of the companies was very much a family affair, the next generation would be expected to take over.

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