h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

hello are you there? are u new here! i need some help about this site!

Hi Tanocas and Normal!

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Hello Dr Justin, i´ve receiver your message, but there´s something i don´t understand , why have posted to me as Tania and normal if i am only logged in as Tanocas?
English is not my mother language and i am still a bit lost in here!
I have just wrote something for my journal but i still don´t understand how can i share with other people. Can u help me!?
Thanks
Tania

Sorry for any confusion - I addressed it to both you (since you had made the posting) and Normal (since this conversation is attached to Normal's 'Space'). Anyone can read anything you write, so it can be confusing if you're in a conversation with lots of participants!

Don't worry about being lost! It's a big place here... Have you take the<./>DontPanic-Tour</.> yet?

When you write a journal entry, two things happen. Firtsly, it gets put in the 'journal' area of your space. Anyone who looks at your space can then see it. Secondly, it becomes a conversation - so anyone can reply to your journal entry. If people have added you to their 'Friends List', this conversation will automatically appear in their list of conversations. It might sound a bit complicated, but it's easy when you get used to it

I hope this helps!

Strange because i am not having a conversation with Normal, but anyway thanks to your help. Now i am starting to understand a bit better. I have written about flight attendants which means if someone comes to my name can see what i wrote and talk about it, thanks a lot for helping beacause i didn´t understand that till now!
Thanks,
Tania

Yep, anyone who goes to 'Your Space' can join in your journal conversations

You said earlier that English isn't your mother tongue - where abouts are you from?

Yes english is not my mother language because i am portuguese, and Manchester is here today playing against Porto, although i don´t know who is winning. The euro 2004 is going to be here in Portugal and were are all very excited with the idea!
I was trying to join some friends to the list and i tried to join us but i don´t know if i was able to to! Did i join u to my list? Sorry for this.
Tania

Ooooh... Portugal! I have to admit, I'm not a great fan of football... There just seems to be too much money around the game (in this country at least) to be helpful for the game...

I don't think you managed to add me to your friends list. If you go to my page, there should be a link saying 'click to add to friends', or something like that. If you click the link, it should take you to a page telling you that it worked. Also, when you go back to your page, my name would appear in your friends list, near the bottom of your page.

Ahh know i think i´ve managed to put you on my friends list! But i still don´t understand why is normal attached to my name, how can i put it off?
Yes u are right football and money we also live that kind of crisis around here! But because of the big event that is the euro2004 people forget a bit about this kind of things!
How can it be possible if you only one year older than me to have such a big CV?

Yes, you've managed to add me to your friends list!

The only reason Normal is attached is because you happened to post to their space... There's no way you can change this, I'm afraid, as this conversation now forms part of Normal's Space.

Most of the work I've done has come about because I happened to be in the right place at the right time. Simple as that really, none of it's been incredibly difficult, just things that needed doing! I think the other major chunk of my CV has been my education - I suppose I stayed 'in the system' for so long so that I could put off getting a job for as long as possible! It's not just how much there is on a CV, it's what it shows about the person. If I'd had loads and loads of different jobs, I'd have a huge CV - but it would mean that I kept losing or leaving my job - not something that a potential employer wants to see!

Yes you are probably right! Lucky for you that you have finished university. Me i am at journalism university and i should have allready finished it but i have decided to stop it for two years and became a flight attendant, to meet different things and have some work experience that i believe makes an huge difference when u leave university!
Does this means that whenever i talk to someone normal will always be there LOL!?Is there a way to change that

Yes, I think I'm glad to have finished uni... Now I've just got to worry about paying back my student loan!

Work experience can definitely make a difference. For one thing, it'll give you somewhere to start from when you finish uni yourself. Plus it gives you a well-needed break from studying...

No, that'll only happen in this conversation 'thread'. If you start a conversation somewhere else it will be attached to a different page.

Yes it was a very well wanted rest, in portugal to get into university it is really difficult,you have to do several tests and achieve a certain grade. But here we can not have loans to study, this is how it works out, or do you have the money to study or if you don t have i can forget abou it. so that u can imagine, this school year all university fees have risen 140% !!! There were big manifestations in the parliament by the students, but of course they didn t care about it!
After finishing university how it the job market there, is it difficult for degrees to get a job?

140%!!! That's outrageous!!! Mind you, over here they've been thinking of introducing more 'top-up' fees... I've not been following it very closely though, seeing as I'm not going to be affected by it!

I think it depends what sort of job you want... Having a degree doesn't seem to have made much difference for me - I only recently got a full-time job, about 18 months after I finished uni! For a lot of people, it seems that getting a degree just means you've been getting an education for three years that you could have been working...

That s what i thought at the time i entered in university that i just was going to have an education and when i would finish it i would find myself with no good perspectives of work!! Nowadays having education is not what it used to be. But when i have been in England i found that the english system seems very diffent from ours, for example, here it supposed with 18 years old to be entering university and nothing more than that. There i saw lots of teens working with no problem. Your economy is stronger than ours because in your country doesn t seem that every one has to turn up a Doctor to be something good. The portuguese care too much about how they look, if they are wearing the versace or gucci clothes or have the sports car of the year, and this irritates me, because too many people are starting to care about how they look for the others. And we have a week economy and we should be caring for social problems and not for things that don t really matter!
How do u the situation in Britain