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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Actually now with 14 years behind me,....I'd have to say that in my chosen sphere of professional expertise, degrees are worth nothing. (Companies look for graduate calibre, but not necessarily applied academic qualifications).
It took me 5 years of doing menial jobs related to my career, studying for and putting myself through professional qualifications and getting that (as frankspencer rightly points out) all important experience on my CV which got me where I am today.
In todays society no-one learns humility. Everyone thinks they have a right to a big house, a 4*4 or a BMW on the driveway and designer clothes on their back.
Rewind 40 years my parents generation and having a car was a luxury, designer clothes were a reserve of the super-rich and you saved for everything. As kids of the 1980s/90s we have been bought up on the premise that you can have the world - which is fine and should be encouraged, only problem is the people who want the world stop listening at the part where you actually have to work for it.
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