A Time of Magic

When the economy isn’t doing too well it can pay to check out the healthcare job listings.

Whilst many are obviously specialist posts that you’re simply not going to be able to do without substantial amounts of training and education, there are a lot of non-health specific jobs that get listed on the healthcare job listings sites. Moreover, there are also quite a lot that don’t require massive amounts of training which is something worth considering if you’d like to add another skill-set to that which you already have.

Cuts there remain to come, but healthcare seems to be one of the areas where they’ll be felt that little bit less than elsewhere.

Wendy’s addicted to watching those airport shows though I think they’re running out of interesting angles if some of the recent ones are anything to go by.

The odd thing with most of the airport jobs is that the people doing a particular job seemed to have been specially selected to be bad at it in a lot of cases. I’m sure that the selection process didn’t choose them because they were that way but it would seem that the job changes you.

In one recent programme it would appear that they select all the airport security people to be fat for instance which somehow seems wrong…

We’ve been keeping more of an eye on our spending than we normally would of late and it’s interesting to observe just how many changes to prices there have been in the shops lately.

Whilst I couldn’t claim to remember all the prices of everything there are a number of things that I’ve noticed moving in peculiar directions as the weeks have went by. Lucozade for instance has a seemingly endless series of different offers with six packs starting off at £2.99, going down to £2 in some places then back up to £2.99 and then to “2 for £5″ (ie £2.50 each). Obviously a case of the shop or supplier experimenting with the price to try and find what will make the most money for them but the problem is that it’s showing clearly that the higher prices are bringing in a profit so canny shoppers just wait ’til the price goes down.

Even more confusing is one of the milk drinks that the kids like. This comes in two places in the shop in bottles that are identical apart from a single word being added to the bottles in the fridges which seemingly is enough to add 30% to the price even though the contents of the other bottle are identical.