Consulting

Well, as far as the job market goes, I'm going to try one of these portfolio careers, as they say.

The idea is that I go in for consultancy and software writing, and try to supplement it with some (grossly underpaid) work for the Open University, who pay their part-time tutors about half what they should. How anybody stays with this regime may baffle you, but when you consider that some money is better than none, and they give you a rather tenuous but present foothold in academia, you can see why the OU get away with it. I suppose that's why, in the past, we've had unions, but OUAUT, and some of the other academic unions like NATFHE, seem to have a habit of responding to employer exploitation by rolling over to have their tummies tickled.

While I remember, London Metropolitan University are behaving like complete ratbags to their staff, and threatening them with sacking if they don't sign a new contract beneficial to the employers, and this seesm to be one case where NATFHE has actually moved itself to some action.

Dyslexics of the world untie! You have nothing to lose but your hcnais!