Junior production ass wanted

Bolt-01 · 20 February, 2003, 01:25:05 PM

Out of curiosity:
Is this job going to pay enough to draw people from far away?
Will it provide enough of a wage to support a family?
Is it really an ad for a runaround-dogsbody-get the sarnies in-assistant?
I'm only asking 'cause I wish I was young and mobile enough to give it a go. I love effing around with stuff and this looks like it would be an interesting experience.

----sigh-----

rotts

Oddboy · 20 February, 2003, 03:11:26 PM

I know what you mean... I can't imagine commuting to Oxford every day (I ain't movin' I've only just bought my flat!) for a dogsbody role, even for 2000AD...

Apart from that you need to have mac experience :-( so I guess I'll stick to this (probably) far better paid job & read 2000AD after it's published.

John Caliber · 20 February, 2003, 03:45:55 PM

Most annoying as I'm fully qualified for the job, and have written extensively for 2000AD media elsewhere (RPG); with writing, editorial and illustration skills I'd be the perfect right hand man to chip in when odds and ends need to get done (isn't it nice to blow one's trumpet now and then - please, smutty jokes back in their dirty boxes).

Still... I live in Manchester and Oxford is too big a stetch at the moment - it's also very expensive to live in compared to Manchester!

- JC

paulvonscott · 20 February, 2003, 04:00:40 PM

Doesn't it have a high murder rate as well from what I've seen on the TV, they'll probably be advertising the post again in a couple of weeks.

JamieB · 20 February, 2003, 04:13:51 PM

I hope not, cos I moved here to do this job!

J-Bo-1

ukdane · 20 February, 2003, 04:20:12 PM

Well, As a scanner-fan (ask Wake!), I too would have applied, but the commute from Denmark every day definately isn't gonna balance out wit h the pay ;-)

paulvonscott · 20 February, 2003, 04:37:06 PM

Sorry Jamie, I've just been informed Inspector Morse is fiction, they should say so at the start of the show, I thought it was one of those fly on the wall documentary's.

Even still.

GordonR · 20 February, 2003, 04:49:48 PM

Don't wory, paul, I got it, even if no-one else did.

I always wondered how many exotic and interesting murders a town the size of Oxford could feasibly have.

Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus books also annoy me no end - just how many dark and gruesome crimes can there really be in a small city like Edinburgh for Rebus to investigate?

And then there's Murder She Wrote and Hart to Hart. Every week, the main characters in these things would go and visit some dear old friend, who would either be a) murdered, and they'd have to catch the killer, or b) accused of murder, and they'd have to prove them innocent.

If you were one of their friends would you invite these serial murder-jinxes over for the weekend?

It's pointless things like this that keep me awake at night.

JamieB · 20 February, 2003, 04:59:08 PM

Thank god for that!

J-Bo-1

Mk13 · 20 February, 2003, 05:15:04 PM

>I always wondered how many exotic and interesting murders a town the size of Oxford could feasibly have.

It's still not as bad as Miss Marple. That quaint home counties village, St. Mary Mead, has a substantially higher murder rate than Bogota!

I'm also developing a theory that Miss Marple is in fact a Jedi Master with finely honed force powers. Note the way that when she first appears on a murder scene, the police tell her to naff off, but a couple of scenes later they seem to have glazed over, and barely notice the fact that she's wandering round prodding corpses and nicking all the Rich Tea biscuits - definite Jedi mind tricks at work...

"This is not the old biddy you are looking for..."

Not to mention the fact that Joan Hickson is the mutant offspring of Yoda and the Emperor...

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Mk13 · 20 February, 2003, 05:22:41 PM

Maybe this one will work.

In time you will call me master....

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Dom · 20 February, 2003, 05:24:59 PM

if you were any where and these people entered the room, a sharp exit would be on the cards.

Unless it is a conspiracy theory and these people have incredible cover up stories for severe Munchausens by proxy

DavidXBrunt · 20 February, 2003, 11:42:14 PM

There's an Armitage story out there somewhere in which Poirot get's arrested for going around killing people and framing inocents...

Bart Oliver · 23 February, 2003, 08:11:40 PM

I read Poirot's Last Case in a cold, wet, uneventful week at St.Ives during my teens and the plot twist is that Poirot commited the murder. Uninspired, dull as ditch-water.

Devons Daddy · 24 February, 2003, 11:09:51 AM

i looked into this one.
crunched the numbers.the weekly flights
singapore UK - UK singapore where bit annoying not to expensive in the long run.the long christmas holiday was a bonus of course.
(for staff only not us here though)

but the taxi fayre from heathrow to oxford was the killer for me.