ConnedswiftyisNOTevil writes, "I have recently become obsessed with the BBC Three show 'The Real Hustle' - personally, I think of it as a 'How To' show for aspiring con artists."
Have you carried out a successful con? Perhaps you hustled a few quid off a stranger, or defrauded a multi-national company. Or have you been taken for the wide-eyed, naive rube that you are?
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chthonic, Thu 18 Oct 2007, 13:02)
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University"There's a shortage of scientists" spouted the government and my teachers back in 1995, "We need more science graduates" I was constantly told. So I worked hard at my A-Levels (even though I just wanted to get a job) and went to uni to do Biology & Biochemistry.
Now lets get one thing straight, I did not cock around at university, my week days were full of lectures and lab work, I always had work to do and I can count the number of lectures I missed in 3 years on one hand. During the holidays I did not swan off on booze-filled shag-fests because I worked as a lab monkey for the PhD students.
Could I get a job after graduation? Could I fuck. Within a year my aspirations fell as the job rejection letters increased. It also turns out that scientists, when they can get work, get paid fuck all. I was applying for cancer research posts starting at £9k a year, even back in 1998 that was low.
The final straw came when I was being interviewd for a part time lab assistant job at a local research station. Even though the job was just a glorified cleaner, I was up against a woman with a PhD in Microbiology. She told me that she was currently working part time at the science museum as she couldn't get a job as a proper scientist. I went home and took my degree off my CV and got a job at NatWest.
So that is how I was conned into spending thousands of pounds and years of my life on a piece of paper that is worthless. I believed the lie about science graduates being able to pick and choose their jobs and paid for it with interest.
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 18 Oct 2007, 15:29,
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yuptry having a phd in biology - makes you even less fecking employable. bastards.
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ascorbate, Thu 18 Oct 2007, 16:57,
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it isn't just scientists and engineersi make more money than my best friend. he has a masters degree and is a parole officer. i never finished my bachelors and enforce court orders.
kinda makes me think that quitting school wasn't nearly such a bad idea after all.
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flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Fri 19 Oct 2007, 2:34,
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