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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Have fun in your cunty kitchen.
Today I have been mostly buying ram, cooking tea, and watching X Factor.
Tomorrow I will be taking the grandkids out to do their xmas shopping, as apparently I am good at it.
I love shopping. Do you think I could get a job where I just shop all day?
(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 21:50, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
did you cook ram for tea?

(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 21:52, Reply)
I did not.
We had pork with three mustard sauce and baby potatoes.
(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 21:53, Reply)
i am jealous
I have out of date garlic bread and some veg samosas for tea.
(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 21:54, Reply)
But you have a job and an almost house
and a marketable skill.
And no hangover.
(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 21:57, Reply)
hmm
the hangover could really be blamed on you, I reckon
(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 22:01, Reply)
Me? How?
What have I done?
(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 22:02, Reply)
Yeah. YOU.

(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 22:03, Reply)
*sads*

(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 22:04, Reply)
In all honestly, you really could. There are a lot of buisness people out there who don't have a clue and would rather set a budget and pay someone.
You go and sit with them for an hour or two, talk about their family and friends, make a list of who they need to sort out, budget it and there you go.

Personal shoppers are big busnesses in the more affluent states, like LA and New York.
(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 21:53, Reply)
Having talked to somebody who used to do that job for a living
you have to know absolutely *everything* about all the latest trends and designers.

I'm really good at buying presents for people, so that would be an ace job. But I don't think the demand would be that great here in the West Country. You know how those business types get their secretary to buy their wife's birthday present? I could totally do that.
(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 21:56, Reply)
Couldn't you do it all online?
Maybe if you got a tie-in between designers and the terminally vain you'd get somewhere.

Not sure how it would work, though.
(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 22:05, Reply)
Yeah', you'd have to be really on the ball on so many industries.
Sounds to me like a perfect excuse to move to The Upper East Side of North London.
(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 22:10, Reply)
Hmm.
I'd need to find somewhere to live, and I understand it's very hard to find good landlords in London.
(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 22:11, Reply)
Totally worth a punt, if you ask me.
I'm close enough to a town centre that I can walk for 10 minutes and have most shops imaginable in any town center, but far enough that noisy drunks and traffic won't bother me. And it's 25m into central london =)
(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 22:20, Reply)
Gonz, you're a switched on man about the internet
What is this Linkedin I hear tell of?

Does it have any redeeming features?
(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 22:12, Reply)
Yeah', it's really a big deal, especially if you're looking for work or clients.
It's been nicknamed "The facebook of buisness", and I agree with that. I would be careful when giving them your contact/email addresses to find people as they'll send out email to so many people if you're not reading it carefully.... anyone you've ever sent an email to or from.

I'm not very active on it, but I am on it.
(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 22:18, Reply)
Looking for clients primarily
I've an aversion to anything like Facebook but the guys I'm subbing for at the moment have suggested it, as a way of sweetening the news that they've nothing else for me when this contract ends on Friday.
(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 22:25, Reply)
I think prospective employers check it too.

(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 22:26, Reply)
That's what I was hoping
As a man of no fixed income it may prove useful.
(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 22:28, Reply)
It can't hurt.

(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 22:32, Reply)
Can you advertise on it?
I'll have a closer look tomorrow but can you actually put your own website on?
(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 22:40, Reply)
You can invite people or tell them you've registered or summat.
And can search by different criteria that suits.
(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 22:43, Reply)
Yeah', I'd go for it. You can also upload your CV and it'll cleverly try and get as much info out of that as you can.

(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 22:40, Reply)
As above
I'm really thinking of it as a way to promote the business, although my CV has been more useful recently.

Can't be bothered tonight but I'll give it a look in the morning.
(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 22:43, Reply)
A CV is only good if the right people can see it.
Yeah', give it a shot when you're heads a bit more straight, worst comes to it you've wasted a few hours, no big deal... but if it pulls off, then you're sorted.
(, Sat 10 Dec 2011, 22:45, Reply)

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