14th April 2010, 11:43 AM
All this insecurity (interpersonally or otherwise; real and imagined) stems from the "scramble" for digging (the majority but not exclusively all of the) work, so often advertised with a week's notice or less to deadline - can't be healthy for decision-making - Pavlovian, but the nature of the beast - nothing happening nothing happening oh god tons of work landed on someone's desk and need for people yesterday....no time to check refs...? no time to interview...? odd process.... And what with the spectre of economic downturn of Seventh Seal proportions haunting the landscape it's brilliant that firms keep people digging at alll. Good on the unions, and I hope the professional body takes the RICS as its model of professionalisation; ADS and OASIS and all others, combine them all into one excellent cornucopia of information, charge your members a higher fee to gain secure access to this, provide a fund for those fallen on hard times (why not, it's not beyond the capacity of the profession, though its numbers be small) and basically let the employed and self-employed work in the knowledge their jobs, rents, even mortgages are not so insecure as they look. It can work? Just break through some of those ATHENS barriers (rather shocking so much info can't be accessed without being of a certain status - and odd how some of that info can be accessed through your humble lending library's card's code....!) and get the academic work available too in the cornucopia. Considering the mine of info here BAJR what about getting this professionalisation pushed?
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