The John Paul Jones factor.
Accountancy jobs Whitehaven - influenced by an unfriendly invasion in the past that now boosts the number of jobs in Whitehaven, Cumbria.
John Paul Jones was a Scotsman who learned to sail in Whitehaven (just up the coast from Workington on the west coast of cumbria) and from his first job in Whitehaven went on to found and lead the American navy.
He traveled to America on the "Friendship of Whitehaven", where he grew up essentially as an adopted citizen , and only returning to Whitehaven in the 1770’s – when he did return those who’s industry relied on the local economy and who had secured accountancy jobs or engineering jobs in Whitehaven due to the mill or fishing work had much to fear.
This was of course the time of the war of independence and those that were doing the accountancy jobs in Workington or finance jobs in Carlisle were counting lead shot, those having secured a payroll job in Cumbria were probably looking at wages not national insurance.
Jones set sail for west Cumbria and his job was not one of mercy but of potential disaster for Cumbria, or so we would have thought at the time. Their plan seems to have been to set fire to this strategically important west Cumbrian port, destroying the port and the livelihood of those that had jobs in Whitehaven, particularly those that would have secured accountancy jobs as this would have devastated the economy.
The reason that they failed is a debated thing in this area, an accountant friend in Kendal says that they came onto land and found some local rum and ale to irresistible and became intoxicated – left unable to fight.
The serious data collated by people who have metrological jobs in Carlisle is that it was the famous Cumbrian weather that thwarted their plans, the rain pouring down, as it does in the lake district, and extinguishing their flames of destruction.
Whitehaven now benefits from the attempted invasion.
During the first Maritime Festival in 1999, American Marines travelled up to Whitehaven to take part in the festival. There was a proclamation signed forgiving the Americans for their actions, a little high and mighty of us brits considering we were actually at war with them at the time.
The Americans took this all very seriously – representatives from our recruitment agency in cumbria were there as were two people that we had secured mechanical engineering jobs in cumbria for – so seriously that the document ended up on the desk of Bill Clinton and is now displayed at the American naval academy. We went, with our cumbrian chartered accountants who were there also…..to the pub.
As the tradition of the festival and the influx of tourists continue to rise each year we are confident that jobs in cumbria are created and sustained, chartered accountancy jobs in cumbria are created as the receivers of the tourist pound go to their accountancy practice in cumbria to do their books.
If you want to embark on an accountancy or finance career in one of vacancies in Workington or are interested in one of the many mechanical engineering jobs in Cumbria that we have contacts for.