| Oh Happy Days:; A Personal Recollection.... | |
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| becky sharp | Jun 4 2012, 08:17 AM Post #1 |
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Of Working For Jeremy Hunt Ten years ago, Quietus ed Luke Turner worked for Jeremy Hunt's educational publishing company. As the Secretary Of State for Culture, Media & Sport gives his evidence to Leveson, he remembers the fun times there You learn a lot about someone when you work with them every day. I'm sure my colleagues at the Quietus have gained a pretty good idea of general aspects of my character - various insecurities, organisational ineptitude, inability to remain silent for long periods of time - over the past few years. I always know when my learned colleague Mr John Doran is entering a phase of red mist by the tone of his grunts, and the machine gun of his keyboard. So in the three years I worked for Jeremy Hunt, from the September of 2000 to the same month of 2003, I think I got a pretty good idea of what was going on. I was an employee of Hotcourses, a company Hunt owned with an old friend, Mike Elms. Hotcourses was (and is) an educational publishing company devoted to producing course guides and lists - if you live in London, you might well have booked a week's flower arranging or Pilates through it. I began work at the company's offices in Hammersmith, London, gaily full of beans at being in gainful employ doing something that I could believe in, writing about and advocating further and higher education. The enthusiasm was short-lived. This was no writing job, but an admin role looking after the enormous, unwieldy spreadsheets of courses sent in by colleges, along with their print advertisements in the various Hotcourses guides. Our task was to format these messes into the Hotcourses format for digital transfer into the printed system and vast web database. It was, needless to say, a thankless one. Now, I am fully aware that this is by no means a diabolical job. There are millions worse in the world, and many poorer paid, though the Hotcourses wage was a pretty bracing one to live off in London, even a decade ago. More here... http://thequietus.com/articles/08944-jeremy-hunt-levenson-enquiry-hotcourses |
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| caissier | Jun 4 2012, 11:17 AM Post #2 |
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Interesting stuff, Becky ..... gives good character background to JH, and the rest of them. |
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