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Originally Posted by Cyfr
As far as lecturers are concerned, many of them have jobs before they become lecturers and I think being a lecturer is a perfectly legitimate days work. Just because it's not manual work doesn't mean its not proper work.
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I was not impying that being a lecturer was not a legimate days work, but that for many people employed in the education sector, the only experience of life is in education, ie. they went straight form school to university to becoming a teacher or lecturer. In my opinion, it is only once you leave the cocooned life of education and get into the 'real' world of work (and by that that I mean both manual and white collar), that your true education begins.
About 20 years ago I went on a man management course, provided by my employer. I quickly sussed that the lecturer had all the statistics to hand about how low paid workers thought etc, but had never been in that situation himself. When I questioned his lectures and told it how it was trying to bring up a family on a low wage, he could only quote statistics to me. That is what I mean about working in the 'real' world, the university of life is a big educator - where you either quickly learn form your mistakes or go under.
This is why I am questioning your statistics etc.
Have you any comments to make on the jobs I found on Job Centre Plus?