Joe the Plumber wrote:

Birth, school, university, teacher.

Life experience? Zero.

The education side of things needs a right kick up the arse experience wise. Ok studying things but where do you get the experience from? That's the question. I tried to get into the ICT tech role for schools and could i hell get in for experience. They would not even entertain me if i offered to pay for my own checks. All about insurance sadly  Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

Success is 90% Inspiration and 4 minutes Preparation # you can make it!

Rashers wrote:

Had a similar experience with a Consultant at the Hospital.
I was using a wire wheel on the end of an angle grinder to clean up some trailer wheels. Being Mr health and safety, I had gloves, mask and eye protection. I finished the wheels, de-gowned and went out for a cuppa. I came back and found a small piece I had missed. The rest as they say was history and there I was being carted off to A&E by the present Mrs Rashers with an eye injury.

When I finally got seen, the Doctor asked me how the accident happened. 'I was using an angle grinder with a wire wheel on it to clean up some metal wheels'. I said. 'An angle what?' came the reply back. At first I thought it was some kind of sick medical profession joke, but he had absolutely no idea what an angle grinder was. I explained it was like a drill, but had an angled end and it usually had disk attachments for grinding and cutting, but I had been using a wire wheel attachment.

The Guy got really uptight with me saying that if I couldn't explain how I had the accident, how was he supposed to treat me

On the Teacher case, my best mate as I grew up had both parents as teachers. He got a puncture in his bike. They had seen people remove tyres with kitchen implements. It's just such a shame they choose knives to try and lever the tyre off rather than spoons