What is a Gap year, is it a year long holiday for pampered, stuck up, posh kids to swan around the world shagging and smoking dope before they come back to start work at mummy and daddies business, or is it,... well wtf else can it be, but a year long toss off. Has anyone on here been on one, and, if so, what was it like?
Socially mobile working class kids go on them as well. I am resentful because I had two kids and a mortgage while all my friends were off on theirs.
I've squirmed with embarrassment at times listening to spoilt rich kids and their myopic, shallow, prejudiced-ridden, over-privileged and crass conversations ...it's curiously addictive, 'cept they're British (nay, ENGLISH) knob filled toffs - entertaining yes, most certainly. It' bad enough belonging to the same species as them, leave alone the same nation. @op, gap year <nothingtodowiththerichtapestryoflife>
A gap year just means a year out of education, it doesn't mean a year of doing nothing. I'd imagine alot of kids take a gap year so they can work and save up, so they have money to pay for there keep when they go back into education
This. Most people I know who've had a gap year have worked through the whole thing. I don't know many posh people though, might be different for them I suppose. Whatever it is, it seems the OP has quite some chip on his shoulder
Yes, I had one. You have stated that it is shagging and smoking around the world and you want to know what it was like? It was ****ing brilliant ya daft ****, how could it not be?
It's difficult to reply to this ^^^^^^^^^^ without sounding disrespectful. It's probably best if I don't attempt any civility, so, Have you got your head stuck in the sand or so far up your arse that you cannot understand that a gap year is just a 365 day skive. Of course what the OP failed to disclose was their sense of jealousy at probably 'missing out'.
Everyone's version of a gap year is different. Rich kids usually end up on a world tour trek. Other people usually end up working for 6 months to save up then heading off to Aus and Thailand for a couple of months. It's basically a year out from education or work. Most people take their years off between college and uni but I know a lot of the people that take a gap year after uni. I'm debating on that option
Seriously, all my kids took a "gap year" and they worked hard throughout it and used the money to finance themselves the next year. So don't be blinded because some posh twat stood on your toes at some airport.
What are they taking a year out for anyway? Because they worked so hard at Uni? My heart ****ing bleeds it really does. No wonder so many graduates can't get a job. If I was interviewing 2 candidates for a job and one of them had been working since leaving Uni (or had come straight from Graduation) and the other had been basically swanning about as a reward to himself, (for doing something far less taxing than doing proper work) then the Gap Yearer would be out the door with a boot up his arse faster than you could say "Rag Week".
I had a gap year before Uni, during Uni and after Uni, funded by myself through working/running my own 'business', was ****ing awesome. Dev you've got the typical 'i didn't go to Uni so all students are lazy ****s' chip on your shoulder. Further education is brilliant, if you'd been you'd agree...
And I have no doubt of that fact, i've worked hard for more years than I care to remember but I don't deserve a year off out of every five i've worked.
It's also a pain in the tits for those of us who can do the job and have been for years but need the certificate to prove it.
