Re: OT: Why welfare doesn't work!

On Sep 9, 3:31 am, Kris Krieger <m...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sep 8, 2:37 am, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...@My-Web-
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On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 23:58:28 -0700 (PDT), bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sep 7, 5:46 am, Joerg <notthisjoerg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sep 6, 3:54 pm, "Jon Slaughter" <Jon_Slaugh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Employers preferred to
hire youngsters -because they were cheaper and more biddable, and we
frightened of hiring adults who had had to drop out of work - for
whatever reason - for fear that it might happen again.
Aha!  So that's your excuse ?:-)

No Jim, it isn't my "excuse". I never had to "drop out of work". Dutch
employers don't like hiring people over forty, and get even less
enthusiastic over more elderly applicants. I'm good enough that I
managed to get hired in Venlo when I was 57, but when I lost that job
I was three years older, and I haven't been able to beat the odds
since then.

Do you speak Dutch?

There is always "Rosetts Stone", which is supposed to teach people languages
fairly quickly.  I'm not being snide, I'm serious.  You never know where a
good job might be located.

Rosetta Stone?

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/t/the_rosetta_stone.aspx

Immersion courses are expensive, but can get you speaking and
understanding a language in a few weeks.
My wife and I did an hour a week with a Dutch teacher in Cambridge
over the nine months from the time that we knew that we were moving to
the Netherlands until we actually moved, then went to the Nijmegen
University language centre for a couple of hours per week until we ran
out of courses, which took me a couple of years. I was able to shop in
Dutch from the time we arived, though the shop assistants tended to
respond in English for the first year we were there - and some still
do, because they want to practice their English (and I've still got a
pronounced English accent).

Learning Dutch wrecked my German, but didn't affect my French (which
was never all that good, because I'd not had much occasion to use
it).

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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