Grrr!!

[dontpushme]

..that means, I need to go back to school and wear a school uniform,..that pleases my hubby

Does your husband have a thing for girls in school uniforms?

...but i wouldn't mind being a nanny or au pair, i love kids.

Neither would I. I love kids and have always loved taking care of them. I've been babysitting cousins since I was 11 and I've babysat for other families too. I've always liked living with my relatives coz I got to be with my cousins. Of course, some of the parents resented how I could get their kids to listen to me and behave when they couldn't get those same kids to do anything without a screaming match. LOL!

Whats GIS? Sorry to hear about your predicament.

Thanks, Ricky! I think a lot of us feel like we're getting screwed these days.

Simply put, a Geographic Information System (GIS) is a system (for lack of a better word) that uses information linked to locations to answer questions. I'm pretty sure that didn't really explain the whole thing (I've explained it to my mom six times and it all went over her head each time).

For example, I'm a Mayor and I want to know the best place to put a new city dump. I ask a GIS Analyst to find the best spot. He goes in and looks at map data on population demographics, housing, water sources, the elevation and slope of the whole city and its outskirts, any protected wildlife habitats, and roads. He tells me that based on the maps and figures, site A is better than site B because it's far from people and houses (fewer people to get pissed off with the dump smell and noise), far from water sources (we don't want to contaminate those), has good elevation and slope (won't get flooded when it rains and the trash won't slide downhill), is not going to affect local flora and fauna much, and is close enough to a road that it wouldn't be too expensive to have garbage trucks drive the distance from the city proper.

GIS is used in all sorts of fields, like military operations, rescue operations (where's the oil spill headed? where are the resources most needed? what's the best way to get there?), logistics operations (what's the fastest route for my delivery trucks based on speed limits, stop lights, and location of destinations?), medical operations (believe it or not, they use this stuff to map out cancer in a human body), natural resource management, etc.

But that doesn't matter to me at all if I can't find a damn job that doesn't require 2/5/5+ years of experience!

Sigh... :( Anyone need a nanny who can tutor in calculus/physics/chemistry/anatomy and physiology/biology/computer science? I hate recessions, don't you?

[joebloggs]

Sigh... :( Anyone need a nanny who can tutor in calculus/physics/chemistry/anatomy and physiology/biology and computer science? I hate recessions, don't you?

Me stepson has a job now so I need a nanny

As for the rest of your skills, you would get on well with my misses

[sars_notd_virus]

Does your husband have a thing for girls in school uniforms?

Not girls... just me in school uniform and some pigtails too he goes grrrr!!!

[Rosie1958]

Simply put, a Geographic Information System (GIS) is a system (for lack of a better word) that uses information linked to locations to answer questions. I'm pretty sure that didn't really explain the whole thing (I've explained it to my mom six times and it all went over her head each time).

For example, I'm a mayor and I want to know the best place to put a new city dump. I ask a GIS Analyst to find the best spot. He goes in and looks at map data on population demographics, housing, water sources, the elevation and slope of the whole city and its outskirts, any protected wildlife habitats, and roads. He tells me that based on the maps and figures, site A is better than site B because it's far from people and houses (fewer people to get pissed off with the dump smell and noise), far from water sources (we don't want to contaminate those), has good elevation and slope (won't get flooded when it rains and the trash won't slide downhill), is not going to affect local flora and fauna much, and is close enough to a road that it wouldn't be too expensive to have garbage trucks drive the distance from the city proper.

GIS is used in all sorts of fields, like military operations, rescue operations (where's the oil spill headed? where are the resources most needed? what's the best way to get there?), logistics operations (what's the fastest route for my delivery trucks based on speed limits, stop lights, and location of destinations?), medical operations (believe it or not, they use this stuff to map out cancer in a human body), natural resource management, etc.

I know that some (probably all) of the utility companies in the UK use GIS ........ have you tried a specialist UK recruitment agency or utility company websites?