Goering on leadership

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The man knows what he’s talking about. I shall make no comment about the fact that I found this while doing a Google Image search for the new Boris Johnson poster.

None whatsoever.

Goering on Leadership

 

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11 thoughts on “Goering on leadership”

  4. She sent me The Dream of Rome, but I gather this is an intitiative by someone else, so she might not have copies. Besides, these are meant to stir voters up, and I ain’t a voter.

    In related news, I am most annoyed: my Oxbridge-savvy friend isn’t answering his email, so he can’t proofread my CV. Over here we just use resumes, so I’ve never done one and I want to get this right. If I lose this job, I want to lose it on the merits, not because my formatting was wrong. Does that make sense?

  5. Ooops, I only just found this question now when i was looking for a Goering quote. Did you apply? I didn’t I don’t need any more distractions from getting my Weights and Measures qualification, I get that next May if I do some coursework and pass some exams, then I’m on just over £30k a year and have an easy job. If I get bored in the future I can look at the private sector or civil service for new challenges.

  6. I started the application, but quite frankly got intimidated and didn’t finish. I might finish now, just for the sake of my peace of mind. If nothing else, I need to re-do the essays; they currently stink.

    So you’re back in school full-time then? £30k is not to be sneezed at, if you don’t hate the job.

  7. No finished to schooly bit, did that at uni, gotta do a professional qualification on the job, they pay me £24k while im doing it.

    Intimidated? I didn’t know you found Boris intimidating. Are you like me, wouldn’t know what to say to the man after writing so much drivel on his website (not that he never writes any drivel on it)

  8. I don’t find Boris at all intimidating. I find the whole idea of going up against, in all probablility, 200 Oxbridge graduates half my age for a single job opportunity, then moving halfway around the world, intimidating.

    Which I shouldn’t. I’ll get the bloody thing done if it kills me, though. But at this point it just might; I’ve procrastinated longer, but never harder. It’s a little weird and surprising, actually, but then with the whole Gill thing this week has been a bit of a freakout anyway.

  9. Does he pay enough to get a good Oxbridge grad? If I had a good Oxbridge degree I wouldn’t wanna be working for the £20-30k he’s offering. I can get that with my ‘red-brick’ degree.

  11. It’s Boris Johnson. It’s Parliamentary Researcher for Boris Johnson. Do you think there aren’t a bajillion would-be careerist Tories who’d die for this? Researcher isn’t the kind of job anyone takes for the rest of their lives; it’s seen as a stepping stone to eventually getting a Special Advisor position, consulting, getting a job with the Party itself, yadda, yadda. I’ve been on the committees, I’ve done my time with that. But this is a known stepping stone to that.

    Or, if you want to be quite brutal, you could look at it the way several researchers including Pamela Bordes have; kinda the British equivalent of Lewinsky Memorial White House Intern. Although Boris isn’t exactly my type or yours.

    In any case, that would be quite a bit more money than I can earn without a degree, and after three or four years I’d have saved enough to go back to school and finish the damn degree. And after three or four years of working for Boris Johnson, do you think Oxford would turn me down? I’ve wanted to study there since I was seven years old!

    Listen to me: I’m talking myself into this at four-eleven in the morning. What the fuck, I’ll take another stab at the damn essay now. Can’t make it any worse than it was. Trivia note: My “spaceship” is actually a metaphor for a Lamborghini. That should be worth some points for artistic merit.

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