grumpyf1

It turns out that in amongst all the sensible qualifications we possess, there are usually some less useful ones. And some downright weird ones. I’ve been updating my CV recently – It’s important to be able to adequately show a prospective employer my decades of chronic underachievement in a neat chronological list – and it turns out some of the things I’ve got certificates for are rather out of date, irrelevant, or just plain weird. I’m grateful for the First Aid course I went on, as it’s always useful to know what to do if someone goes into labour. It was good that I knew roughly what to do when a colleague attempted to cut his finger off with a jigsaw, even if the shaking like a leaf and having a quivery voice when I rang for an ambulance weren’t part of the training. Happy days. Proper O and A Level subjects aside, the fading, tatty, blue folder of my training history reveals some less helpful areas of expertise. I can vaguely recall bits of the “IBM MVS Operations Techni...