"Where do I go from here?" Text talking about employment... Hi James,
I was reading you Journal today (yes, people read it you muppet!)... http://jwm-art.net/o7.php?p=j20120523-0154 In the Journal entry for May 2012 "Where do I go from here?" - your experience with the IT company sounds very unfortunate... "Some time later they contacted me for a second interview. I had been very negative in my last interview they said. They would (if they were to offer the job to me) pay for me to go onto a computer science course at the local university. Where do you stand on intellectual property rights I asked? The answer shocked me. All code I would write in their employment regardless of whether it was written in work hours or not would belong to them. Exceptions would have to be arranged, but they would prefer for my focus to be on their work not my own or the projects of others." This is a classic 'absolutist' mannerism regarding full-time employment. But as you mention further down in your journal, due to you being involved in the arts and being a critical individual, this makes you a non-candidate for the 'happy clappy' role of pure submission of your soul to any job. An issue that many are likely to share & appreciate on this list. Do we really have to be banal robots to accepted into the labour market? Because our minds are curiously drawn to other things which are not necessarily part of an all consuming hegemony - we can end up being seen as threats, when in reality many are just passionate beings exploring amazing things. Wishing you well. marc _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
