[Klug-general] Kent BCS event - Washing Away Cave Paintings (Animation and Games Development)

[David Halliday]

A friend of mine is joining as part of his accreditation for a high level
security certification (I'm sorry I can't remember the name/details, but
it potentially pay a LOT more than I'm on). I know that in engineering there
are societies that one can join which you need to be in to become
chartered.

Quite why paying an annual membership to a subject related society
(the benefits of which seem confusing) makes such a difference to a persona
ability to do a job. The sad thing is that from what I'm told the top jobs
(at least in my friends engineering experience) seem to be handed out to
those with the membership in this society. Like a self
fulfilling prophesy almost?

Still what makes sense in the path to making sufficient money to survive and
not worry too much is confusing and inconsistent at the best of times.

On 15 March 2011 00:18, James Blake <jimmyblake at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've never joined the BCS on principle as they once turned me down for
> membership based on 'lack of experience' (this was nearly 18 years ago).
>  Now they're biting my hand off, I've even got an article being published in
> their journal on cloud computing due diligence over the next couple of
> months.
>
> With the field of computing now being so broad and mutlinational
> organisations so easy to join and participate in on-line, I can't see their
> relevance these days.
>
> Regards
>
>
> James
>
> On 14 Mar 2011, at 22:59, James Morris wrote:
>
> > On 14 March 2011 20:46, Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Not sure if I should really  ask this, when I have a BCS email address,
> but
> >> ils anyone here actually a member of the BCS?
> >> I let my membership expire when I stopped being a student, they charged
> an
> >> arm and a leg for membership, and you needed friends to be able to go
> >> forward in your membership, the value of which seamed to be that they
> then
> >> charge you more money!
> >
> > Kind of like Scientology then!
> >
> >
> > James.
> >
> > --
> > _
> > : http://jwm-art.net/
> > -audio/image/text/code/
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Kent mailing list
> > Kent at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Kent mailing list
> Kent at mailman.lug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent
>



-- 
Sent from my email client that wishes not to directly advertise itself or
any hardware platform!
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/kent/attachments/20110315/3f03efd0/attachment-0001.htm>