What is a trainee?

I have, as you may have noticed, started looking for jobs. This might be a bit early by Norwegian standards, but here in England it is quite normal to start the application process early. In addition, the application deadline for different trainee positions are mostly in February. Which brings me to my point. What is a trainee?



Rome wasn't built in a day...

If you take a job search engine like Finn.no or Aetat.no, you may be fooled by the excessive use of the word. Today it appears that trainee, in 90 % of the cases, is a nicer word for telephone salesman. Why?! It is a very time-consuming task to pick the few (in my opinion) GENUINE trainee positions today. No, I don't want to be a telephone meeting booker, or a sales engineer (which is another example of the fact that "engineer" is not a protected title). In my eyes, a trainee is a person who, during a period of time, undergo training in different areas of a company. To be parked behind a desk with a telephone doesn't seem to live up to that...
I had a strange experience today. Searching through my blog, I discovered that a post had disappeared. Vanished. Gone. However, Joakim had the page in his cache, and sent me the link. The page was still there, so I copied the content and published it again. Here it is:
If you find it offensive, please let me know... I guess I've learned my lesson, as I downloaded my entire page today to have the raw data on my local computer as well. I don't want to be too conspiratory minded though, as Blogger has had a lot of trouble throughout the weekend.