Disaster Management

You'd be better off doing a proper degree course, not a **** bodged one at an even worse institution.

Reply 2

OP

bikerx23

You'd be better off doing a proper degree course, not a **** bodged one at an even worse institution.

Biker, I've got an interview with them in a couple of days, I'll tell them you said that :smile:

Reply 3

They actually interview at coventry? They clearly have ideas above their station.

Reply 4

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bikerx23

They actually interview at coventry? They clearly have ideas above their station.

Unlike Oxford who have no ideas at all when it comes to real life. And surely someone studying (or intending to) volcanology should be aware of what happens when a volcano kicks off and the consequent need for someone to clear up afterwards? Or is reality an unnecessary inconvenience for someone who apparently considers himself an academic?

Reply 5

If you intend to study volcanology then perhaps you would be better off starting with a course which will introduce you to the scientific background of volcanoes - considering pure scientists are hired for emergency planning roles and trained up rather than those who have got specific degrees in the topic perhaps you would be best off looking elsewhere.

Also - you seem to be speaking without knowledge of oxford - they have a great deal of intimacy with real life.

Reply 6

OP

Before this computer auto logs out, I should point out that it's your profile that mentions volcanology. And living in a dump of a town like I do that catches the fall-out from Oxford's tenuous grasp on reality, I know that those in Oxford haven't got a clue

Reply 7

kingsholmmad

Before this computer auto logs out, I should point out that it's your profile that mentions volcanology. And living in a dump of a town like I do that catches the fall-out from Oxford's tenuous grasp on reality, I know that those in Oxford haven't got a clue

I'm amazed that you have such great knowledge of the entire of Oxford - good on you.

Seriously though - you'd be better off getting a job than wasting 3 years of your life - would get you a lot further.

Reply 8

wow, bitchy, but id have to agree, your more likely to be hired with a single speciality such as geology because youre better at what you do. Disaster management is far too general, and is a bit pointless really, its a geographers cop out cause they cant do geology.

Reply 9

I didn't know you lived in the isle of wight alex - bloody interesting geology there, I've heard.

Reply 10

lol, its not too bad, bit of chalk, bit of mud, big antiform through the middle, but havent looked at it in detail, more interested in the fossils myself :p:

Reply 11

ali567149

go for it however i would say that if you want to go on into disaster management or emergency relief work studying something like economics would give you a sure footing then off to do an ma in it where you would gain more praical experience.
But i would still choose that over dull old rocks any day. People are far more interesting!

Reply 12

fair enough, people may be more interesting, but only to those who get a job in disaster management, and often itll be the specialists such as geologists who do.

Reply 13

OP

Strewth, are all geologists / geographers as bitchy as you lot? Does it come from spending so much time with inanimate objects that you don't know what to do with real people?

Reply 14

kingsholmmad

Strewth, are all geologists / geographers as bitchy as you lot? Does it come from spending so much time with inanimate objects that you don't know what to do with real people?

We drink a lot.

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