Anonymous

London

Heating engineer

I abandoned IT when it became uneconomic as PC desktops got too cheap! I was doing desktop and comms network support for SMEs and the tight so-and-so s seemed to think that £70 per hour was FAR too expensive. Trouble is, you can't run a viable business on less!

Instead of that I am now a CORGI heating engineer and can't get trainees / apprentices worth having, at any sensible price. And the maths (and written / read English) of those that DO front up is hopeless.

Because of Government 'Degrees for All' policy, even the dumbest, most unpromising students get rubbish degrees which they then believe entitles them to a cushy job in a nice warm office, with clean finger-nails. Whoever are left to become plumbers etc. tend to be long on ignorance and short on motivation!