Children as young as five in England will be urged to think about careers https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jan/05/children-young-five-england-urged-think-about-careers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@JohnLoader6 They do already! Popular choices include Astronaut, Beefeater, Fireman....
@greeneralia gone are the days of What’s my line being stumped by a Sagger maker’s bottom knocker. (Pottery term)
@JohnLoader6 Isobel Barnett, Lady Barnett. And the poor old thing turned out to be a kleptomaniac. She turned up to the studio in a chauffeur-driven Rolls but tried to steal a tin of tuna...
Yes, I remember her from "What's My Line" - a popular 60s TV programme.
She killed herself when she was caught stealing - is that right?
@greeneralia @Paulos_the_fog 1980 electrocuted in her bath
@JohnLoader6 No, I was in the UK. Actually, assuming death was instantaneous, not a bad way to go?
@greeneralia expensive nowadays. Nitrogen necrosis for me should that time ever come
@JohnLoader6 It sounds very hard to arrange - where are you going to find the diving outfit willing to lower you to those depths. Also not sure I could get into a suit (arthritis) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_narcosis
@greeneralia easy I can assure you. Amazon can provide. But many creaky years left in these old bones I hope
It was indeed very sad! I believe she was a qualified medical doctor; something that was extremely rare back in those awful unenlightened days.
@Paulos_the_fog @JohnLoader6
Rare for a woman, you mean? Yes.
She was very witty, I do remember that.
I thought it was obvious what I meant but, yes, rare for a woman to qualify as a doctor.
Training as a doctor was my mother's ambition but she had to settle for nursing as her parents didn't want to 'waste' the money on sending her to medical school when there were sons to be educated, even though she obtained the necessary entrance qualifications.
@Paulos_the_fog @greeneralia oddly almost all vets we see are female
@JohnLoader6 Must have been in one of our periodic moves abroad? Or else my memory is blotting out the bad bits - also possible.
@Paulos_the_fog @JohnLoader6
I had forgotten that part - did she really?. Poor woman.