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About me on India: “the first person in world history to take a job in India” - thank you Sunil!
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After mastering my first real job in under six months, drastically improving services, and creating documentation it was time for a university gap year… without going to university before or after. Most people do the stereotypical volunteering in Africa or Asia which seems a little fake, so I thought of another crazy idea.
Whilst the whole of India and pretty much every nation on earth is desperate to work or study in the United Kingdom, I thought I would do something odd and go there to work at nearly twenty years old. Why? Big corporates have loads of outsourcing firms servicing them and most are from India.
About me on my first real job: baffle the interviewer and you may win - thank you SC!
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College which was lasted two years finished in May or June 2004 with me getting a double pass. What was the next problem? I was not 18 yet! Luckily, I had a Saturday job or a spare time job to keep me occupied. After a few months of semi-relaxation, the job hunt began after writing a CV.
In those days physical agencies were plentiful and it was time to print off CVs, and drop them around. I went to a local large high street and tried a few agencies on shop level or above the shops. A lot of the agencies were generic with non-IT jobs and just one had two jobs going.
About me on college: exam grades mean little in my case - thank you to my father!
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In the last article published in May 2020 I finished off with my exam grades which were not great and my school not offering ICT A Levels which caused me to go elsewhere. Before I talk about education for a second, let’s change to a different topic - comparing the early noughties to 2021. Many things have changed, from crime, terrorism, transport, internet, parenting to fun. Then fun was cycling to a friend unsupervised and walking in a field with an open stream.
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