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18-08-2009, 00:06
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Dubious
Join Date: Sep 2008
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Thinking of becoming a cabbie!
I'm thinking of doing the Knowledge and becoming a Black Cab driver...
For those that don't know much about it, you have to do something called "The Knowledge" - a test sort of thing which is spread out over 2+ years (depending on how much you study etc). Before you can get a license you have to know the ins and out within a 6 (i think) mile radius of Charing Cross... hard! (That includes locations like banks, clubs, companies, landmarks, squares, hospitals, etc). I want to do it as you basically work for yourself - you can choose your own hours, work for as long or as little as you want! My collegue at Blacks has recently passed and is on about £50k/year for doing about 4 days work  Don't know why I'm telling you all tbh.. just wanted to tell someone!! 
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18-08-2009, 00:28
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Rocket Fuel
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I spoke to a minicab driver outside when I was working the door at Prism in Leadenhall Street. He was doing the knowledge. He'd been trying for 6 years. I asked him how one did it, he said spend lots of time driving/pootling round London on a moped, he split the Big Smoke into 6 bits and was doing a bit a year. Apparently after about a year you start to see routes in your head, diversions spring to mind like second nature.
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18-08-2009, 00:36
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Dubious
Join Date: Sep 2008
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Aye, my friend said the best way is to get a scooter instead of a car, and just go round and practise your "runs" while saying them in your head.
That way you also see your "points", such as pubs & clubs, offices, housing estates and it all starts to click into place 
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18-08-2009, 00:40
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Do you want to hide in my box?
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Good luck with it
Relative of mine did it years ago and then switched to doing some chauffeuring before his retirement. Amazing how much geographical knowledge he had in his head by the end of it all.
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18-08-2009, 00:49
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Rocket Fuel
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What with AcidHell wanting a market stall and you wanting to do the knowledge, this place is turning into Eastenders!!
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18-08-2009, 00:50
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Old Git
Join Date: Nov 2006
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can't you just buy a satnav ?
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18-08-2009, 00:51
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Long Island Iced Tea
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Well I'm through to the final interview for a Forensic Computing job
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18-08-2009, 00:53
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Dubious
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Gahh - going to be stuck with that tune all rudding night now! 
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18-08-2009, 01:08
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Rocket Fuel
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18-08-2009, 01:20
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Long Island Iced Tea
Join Date: Sep 2008
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£50k for driving a vehicle around London for a year, this country has gone to the dogs.
Thats £136 a day. London needs to be blitzed. |
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