6th January 2011, 02:48 AM
(This post was last modified: 6th January 2011, 02:50 AM by kevin wooldridge.)
Wax Wrote:I suppose we could see a scheme where the work force is made up of unemployed archaeologists.
If I remember correctly the base qualification for getting onto a 1980s MSC scheme in a supervisory capacity was that you were registered with the Professional and Executive Register at the dole office, for which academic requirement at the time was 2 A-levels or higher. I don't seem to remember that claiming to be an unemployed 'archaeologist' gave you any specific cachet at the dole office, (especially as their 'thesaurus' of so called professions didn't even include a category called 'archaeology'.....I forget how many times I was asked 'Is it the same as architect?). And I am sure that any future job creation programmes would be equally as undiscriminating.....by definition it has to be otherwise it wouldn't be a 'job creation' so much as a 'job protection' scheme...I do seem to recall that there was an underlying qualification period for some schemes i.e you had to have been unemployed for a certain period of time. This always struck me as unfair as it seemed to favour those less able to find or hold down work gained through ones own initiative......
PS I haven't been 'registered' unemployed for a number of years now so don't know whether the old Professional and Executive Register still exists....
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