BBC NEWS | Education | Soap characters ‘damage ambition’
Some ppl don’t have a good grasp of the difference between reality and fiction. Soap operas are full of tragedies, otherwise they would be fairy tales!
And if every market trader opened a fashion boutique, who’d run the market?
aargh.
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I really think you are missing the thrust of this story.
I don’t watch Eastenders, so I don’t know much about this character, but…
What is wrong with being a market trader?
If you are an academic you might think that writing or talking about something is more important than doing it.
There is a strong strand of snobbery in this too, market traders are worthless, they are not proper, real retailers it would seem.
“Mr Sainsbury, you must stop running that nasty market stall and come put your skills to good use and take a Level 2 diploma…. you too Mr Marks, shut down that common penny bazaar and come to college”
My 16 year old cousin left school this summer to work full time on the market. She’s a bright, intelligent young woman who used to aspire to be a vet, but she got so sick of mixing with all the coke heads and having to fight her corner on a daily basis at school, that she chose to get herself out of that unhealthy situation, and do something that she happens to enjoy – having worked on the market as a Saturday for the past couple of years. No doubt the coke heads will stay on at school, go to university and get some important looking roll of paper, get a *fantastic* job and get paid loads of money. Who will have made the better life choice???
I am so sick of the snobbery attached to *lowly* jobs. We get it because my husband is a lorry driver, scum of the earth are lorry drivers, thick as shit too otherwise they’d be doing something better with their lives wouldn’t they? When are these idiots that write this rubbish going to realise that without people doing these jobs the country would grind to a halt? What the hell is wrong with doing something you enjoy, whatever it maybe (as long as it’s legal!!)? Why is it that getting a degree (half of which aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on anyway these days) and earning mega bucks is the only way to have a life that is worth living? Fume grumble whitter whinge
Here Tech, have one of these…. :rant:
Plenty to go round here.
And I agreee with absolutely everything you say.
FFS.
“The LSC says that if she were to put her skills to good use and take a Level 2 diploma in fashion retail, for example, she could progress from Walford market to her own designer fashion boutique.”
I don’t have a level 2 diploma in learning how to build a successful web business, i have 4 utterly pointless A Levels from a good school that looked down on everyone who didn’t want to be a doctor, vet or management consultant. Bet i’m a hell of a lot happier than plenty of my year, after all, 2 out of 13 in my class have already committed suicide.
I learned about selling to people from my nana, who took me to weekend markets and made a small living buying and selling – she still does it and she still gets the buzz from it i do. I learned about being self employed and juggling the demands of my work and children from being around my dad, who tried so hard to do the same.
My ex-teachers used to give me pitying looks when i served them ham at the supermarket where i met Max; look where that job took me… a happy marriage, a lovely family and the retail experience i needed to have built up a business that is heading towards turning over £60K this year.
Pah… to diplomas and degrees being the only way to “get anyway.”
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