rockfreak wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:40 pm
I replied that part of the so-called tip top education was the ability of the public schools to use the old school tie network to bounce modest talents into desirable and well-paid jobs.
Might work for Eton but not CH. Outside OB day I have only met one Old Blue since I left CH (when we were waiting for the train and he was wearing an OB tie)
Christ's Hospital, like other public schools, works to get its leavers into a niche somewhere. Although this doesn't seem to have worked with Sejintenej who admits to having had no careers advice and left CH trudging sadly away with his few belongings in a spotted handkerchief over his shoulder and his cat at his heels until he was halfway up Highgate Hill and the bells seemed to be saying "Turn again Banker Brown, Currency exchange wizard of London".
Laughing my head off. No handkerchief, spotted or otherwise, no cat (they put me into hospital several times including a wek ago), and no trip up Highhgate Hill (never been there I don't think). I did have a fiver and a passport.
More accurately it was a heavy load carrier on my back, train to Newcastle, boats to Bodo and train to Sulitjelma. It was an Old Etonian who started me off - first by getting me into CH and, after my first job, into his family bank where I picked up a nasty killer disease (even got a fever relapse on the Brecon Beacons in a tent in deep snow - three weeks off work). I left them after nine years. Currency exchange wizard? you don't have to be a wizard to deal Renmibi. My specialities were risk analysis, law (still doing 80 hours a year up to retirement) and a few other concepts as well.