Students have jobs, probably want nice ones - shock
The Telegraph brought its readers two (count 'em) shocking revelations in one article yesterday: not only do students have jobs (gasp!) but they would rather do something glamorous like modelling or organising tasting sessions than working in kitchens or bars (ooh!).
As its older readers began to dribble at the thought of all those models, we paused for an explanation of why students are getting jobs during term-time. It's the 'growing burden of graduate debt' (rather than, say, not having enough money to live on) and that must be right because tutors 'said' it. All of them, probably.
But anyway, who are we to object when the Telegraph talks of students having 'ingenuity' and 'harnessing their talents' in the search for 'lucrative openings'? It's not often the national media mentions students and talent in the same sentence, and students are normally only ingenious when they're flogging something silly on eBay.
So what jobs are students 'shunning' bar work and the like for? Well, you could be a 'campus brand manager' (read: hand out flyers and samples, probably wearing a daft costume), or 'even a cheerleader' – though the paper doesn't actually name anywhere offering paid cheerleading employment.
One wonders whether students are, in fact, dumping bar work in their droves and falling into better jobs, or whether, perhaps, lots of students are still doing bar work but a lucky few are managing to get paid for less strenuous activities. We have yet to hear of a national shortage of bar staff, anyway.
In other news, low-skilled people are shunning work as office cleaners and road sweepers for more exciting work as beer tasters and mystery shoppers, tutors say.
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