Good news and bad news...

Yeah but it's a bit of a doss for a bit, it's all good. haha
My plans to do either a masters or go straight into teacher training. Boom boom boom.
Degree depending, obviously...

 

I was going to do a masters, but you can't get a student loan unless you applied for a masters as an undergraduate, so it's all dependent on me getting a part time job to support myself while doing it as I'm getting sick of relying on the parents!

 

I bet he stopped where he was in the box and allowed you to cross.

 

Tough break mind. I was there in Thatchers(PPToo) Britain. Sitting by the phone. Skint and a house i had only just bought. Completely empty. I bought a stove for 40 quid. It's all i had apart fromTV and video and the bed and settee off Girl friends Mam. Low enough. Then the burglars nicked TV and video. But. Stuck in and through. Try and you shall succeed and good luck.

 

I'm going to try and calculate how many threads BT will now post:

BT's usual amount of threads + more time due to no work + finding out new formations to post + someone not waving at him + Newcastle game getting rearranged + commentators making sensible comments - time searching for step ladders - time spent ****ing over tall girls FB pictures - time spent practising darts on a pic of Jonas - time spent dealing with Al-Queda hate mail - time spent fending of overseasTOON's cronies

=14.56 threads a day.

 

Couldn't disagree more...Cliched as ****, but life is for living and uni life is immense! I'll settle down and be sensible when I'm older safe in the knowledge that I went as mental as possible as often as possible while I was a student! Granted there's debt involved, but we live in a debt-society and if a degree doesn't guarantee you a job, it can't hurt!

 

Agreed with you about Uni, finished at Sunderland in 2009, and all I've done is either sit at home doing nowt or voluntary 10 week places through Shaw's Trust, would have been a lot easier if I hadn't fallen into the trap that so many others have of going to Uni when they were encouraging everyone to go 5 years ago. Got another placement starting on Monday for 2 days a week.

 

I'm willing to bet though you don't know a lot of people who have just finished uni in the past year or two - since I deferred a year, most my mates I know who went to uni finished last year and received 1sts & 2.1s from a variety of uni's in a lot of different subjects - but they're not getting jobs anywhere, a fair few of them have had to make do with barjobs & the likes of maccy d's as noone will take them on - be it a standard graduate job, or in the industry they wanted to go into and what have you - they want experience over education atm, it's just the way it is (it's why I'm having to do voluntary work to get my experience up, despite having about 2 or 3 years experience anyway).
Contrast that with my mates after 6th form who went straight into work & apprenticeships and most are now earning around 30k/year with solid job prospects.
Yes uni life has been great, but the main aim was to better yourself - if you can't get a job after the 3/4 years of study, what's the point?

What year are you in at uni out of interest?

 

Uni seems rather pointless if people don't have a plan of what they wanna do at the end of it, if they don't know what they're actually going to do with their degree like.
It was like that at my 6th form, a lot of the people in my year picked all their A levels all nice and dandy...then in the last week of 6th form posted facebook statuses such as "i better work out what i wanna do after 6th form" and wondering what career they might go into. It's daft, I knew what I wanted to do when I chose A levels, I know what I wanna do with my degree and I've already got an idea of what I'm going to do after I leave uni (either a masters, or return from manchester back to lincoln, live with the parents again while i sob over my debts, go to a teacher training college near my house which is considered one of the best in the country, and wait until i work long enough to be able to move out again)

 

To be fair I always thought I just wake up one day and just know, or have a wonderful business idea, life doesn't work like that though. I did Business Management because I thought 'oh that will be the topic that covers everything.' At least you know what you want to do.

 

Just the society we live in at the moment
I left school, dropped out of college, finished an IT course which could not get me a job in IT as I didn't have enough experience.
Got a job through my ma's mate which seems to be the best way to go about things now its not 'what you know but who you know'.
earning a fairly decent number for an 18year old, however not a clue what the **** I want to do with my life at the minute.
People are better off
people are far worse off
just got to be thankful with what I have and move on

 

To be fair though the people I went to school with were all idiots, none of them actually knew anything about what they were doing at the time, let alone about what they wanted to do.

And I'm probably never gonna get to do what I wanna do either...
Currently writing an essay (only 1500 words like) on how the performance version of Hamlet enhances my understanding of the text..due in at 5pm..and I've not really started it yet.
So yeah, bodes well haha.

 

To be fair Acid-Hippo that's a fairly condescending and naiive view of the world!
I had plans, world was my oyster really in the first two years (including the one I deferred), then the recession hit and suddenly the plans I'd made aren't enough - the entertainment industry is going to the dogs and there's little or no job opportunities as a sound engineer, where there were loads before & I'm probably going to have to retrain in another sector/industry, got the plan of Engineering as my dad has contacts and I did study it at 6th form, but again with hindsight uni isn't the best answer as like I say I know loads of people who didn't buy into the whole go to uni, be guarranteed a job marlarkey and are doing really well for themselves - much better than those I know who went to uni!

*edit* Just seen your second post which clarifies the first, ignore the first sentence

 

Also like to add, the last government has a lot to answer for!

Not that I like the current ones either mind.

 

I never went to uni.

I finished college and joined a band for a few years whilst also picking up chefing work as and when needed as the gigs didn't pay much.

After 5 years of writing, singing and touring we split up and I went full time as a chef.

After 5 years of full time cooking with much success I opted to quit and retrain as a computer software developer. Taught myself HTML, got a job as a trainee and about 3 years later somehow managed to get into Business Analysis instead for IT companies.

Been doing that for 7 years now and I love it.

Never had a career plan in my life.

 

Yeah it's hard to understand what I was meaning until you actually realise the type of people I went to school with. Most of them went to 6th form purely for the gags and the 30 quid a week EMA they were receiving, nothing else. It wasn't a case of not knowing what area of work/education/whatever they were going in to, it was just they had no idea what they were doing. At all. Most of them don't have jobs now and piss around on their mopeds or stayed at 6th form after a kick up the arse when they realised they might actually have to decide on SOMETHING. I appreciate you guys might've had something in mind what you wanted to do, but it ****ed up for whatever reason, it could still happen to me obviously, but these guys just didn't bother thinking about it and were shocked when it came to the end of 6th form and they realise they might've had to decide on something a bit earlier than the last week.

 

In a band myself ha.. the career thing is only if in 4 or so years we haven't go very far. Currently reinventing ourselves in Manchester now though, after regularly gigging back in Lincoln for a few years. Uni's merely something to do whilst we do the band haha

 

Weh I do English, it literally leaves every door open but doesn't get you through any...I'm applying to do a Masters in creative which again doesn't help much in any field (possibly journalism, but A) I don't wanna do it and B) I'd need do a further course).

I'm at a Russell Group university, doing a credible 'classic' course and I'm gunna come out with **** all immediate job prospects, I don't know what I wanna be, or what I wanna do, but I still maintain that I'm in a better position than my mates who didn't go to uni!

PLUS 90% of the lads from back home who went on to do apprenticeships always say they wish they'd have gone, just for the lifestyle!

 

I'll put out an offer if you or anyone else on this forum ever wants to record in a £2million studio for free in Leeds to get in touch with me before I finish my course!
Hey like I say I could do with the voluntary experience of engineering a record or two.