Tommy G Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 Uni is overated, what kind of job were you hoping for at the end of the degree? Did the job that you had in mind even need a degree? Unfortunately a University degree these days has lost of a lot of it's prestige and anyone can get into a uni now, even with awful A level results. example. ''I have a degree in Sports massage from Aldershot Uni, but I'm only on £9K a year'' I'm sure you will be hearing more and more people saying that in the future. Uni is fantastic if you NEED a degree for a specific career, but it's a waste if you looking for an easy way out and a 3 year dick about when you can't think of anything else to do with your life!
James. Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 Uni is overated How do you know? You're wrong by the way.
Craig Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 How do you know?You're wrong by the way. Yeah, he clearly is wrong. I've just finished my third and final year, and despite being thoroughly bored with the course, and not always giving 100%, i have made many good friends that i wouldn't have if i hadn't gone to Uni, and i've learnt many lessons that i wouldn't have if i hadn't gone to Uni. I'm just gutted it's over :cry:
MC Prussian Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 Uni is overated, what kind of job were you hoping for at the end of the degree? Did the job that you had in mind even need a degree?Unfortunately a University degree these days has lost of a lot of it's prestige and anyone can get into a uni now, even with awful A level results. example. ''I have a degree in Sports massage from Aldershot Uni, but I'm only on £9K a year'' I'm sure you will be hearing more and more people saying that in the future. Uni is fantastic if you NEED a degree for a specific career, but it's a waste if you looking for an easy way out and a 3 year dick about when you can't think of anything else to do with your life! I can somewhat share your sentiments and to a certain degree, I concur. The actual worth of a degree has severely suffered throughout the past 10+ years, especially since the Bologna System got applied. It's how you look at the whole college/uni issue. Either it's a means to an end (prestige) or you consider it a (sporty) challenge for yourself.
skinnydipper Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 I'm thinking of going to Uni full time within the next year. I'm 26, but should that matter? Sell my house, jack my job in. I'm really considering it Go for it. You've got 30 or 40 years to work and if you're going to go then go now whilst young enough to not get confused for another student's dad. The best reason for going is that it's one of life's great experiences - cheap beer,student union discos and gigs,sports, activities,getting absolutely shit-faced and doing things you either can't remember or don't want to remember, not having to go to work day in day out , wearing whatever you want (now valued as I have to wear a suit at work) and making some great mates.If you're lucky you might learn something and enhance your career prospects. With your approach to life you'll thrive. If you do decide to go let me know where so I can advise some friends daughters to apply elsewhere.
Tommy G Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 How do you know?You're wrong by the way. It's my opinion, thats all.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 The problem with journalists (I have a few friends who are journalists) is that they are forever carrying notepads around.Also, my friends all work for local rags so basically, you can't have an opinion on anything. They've become informed but ultimately boring and completely lacking in opinion. I tell them this regularly. So true. Journalism can be soul destroying. I worked for a company that had regional business freepapers all over the country and all the articles were either advertorials (articles written like a "feature", but which are really advertising promotions) or general articles covering an area of business that was being widely featured that week. On the first count, the advertorials, I always had to be nice about the people I had visited and interviewed. One of the straws that broke my camel's back was visiting a "nursing" home that was a festering dungheap and having to write a glowing review about it On the second count comes my moment of crowning-glory (at least, as I see it) Basically the sales manager had decided to turn our paper into Horse and Hound for a week and wanted me to write a pro-fox hunting article (Don't get me wrong, foxes DO kill livestock, etc and should be kept in check... I just don't think that it should be done for FUN. Also, thrashing a pack of hounds and numerous horses around the countryside all afternoon is hardly THE MOST HUMANE nor ERGONOMICAL). Anyhoo, after much arguing I reluctantly agreed to do it, something like this... Baying hounds, the thunder of hooves, And the loud clarion call of the horn are Some of the things that villages and Towns in Britain may soon be missing. As it may seem the beating heart of Rural Britain is ripped out, we should not Despair as there is still one more Season of hunting left. Obviously, I didn't put all the letters in BOLD CAPITALS as I did here, but that was the general gist. There were a further 2 paragraphs which said Morons and Arseholes, if I remember correctly (was about 8 years ago now)
General Smuts Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 Lets be fair everyone should go uni and end up like me.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 Lets be fair everyone should go uni and end up like me.
Master Fox Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 Go for it. You've got 30 or 40 years to work and if you're going to go then go now whilst young enough to not get confused for another student's dad. The best reason for going is that it's one of life's great experiences - cheap beer,student union discos and gigs,sports, activities,getting absolutely shit-faced and doing things you either can't remember or don't want to remember, not having to go to work day in day out , wearing whatever you want (now valued as I have to wear a suit at work) and making some great mates.If you're lucky you might learn something and enhance your career prospects. With your approach to life you'll thrive. If you do decide to go let me know where so I can advise some friends daughters to apply elsewhere. Sounds perfect. I'm going to look into this. Any recommendations? I never have any money left over each month after i've paid the mortgage, so that won't be different. Note to Tommy G: If you think doing what you're doing is going to get you somewhere better, you're sadly wrong my friend. I know.
Tommy G Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 Sounds perfect. I'm going to look into this. Any recommendations? I never have any money left over each month after i've paid the mortgage, so that won't be different. Note to Tommy G: If you think doing what you're doing is going to get you somewhere better, you're sadly wrong my friend. I know. How do you know?
Master Fox Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 How do you know? Becuase i did what you're doing, and it sucked arse.
Tommy G Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 Becuase i did what you're doing, and it sucked arse. Oh you did AAT whilst working for a top 15 accountancy firm, I didn't realise that. How did it go tits up then?
Katy Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 Good luck in September. Thanks Steven, I'll need it but I really want to do this as I had to give my Nursing course up before. It will be hard work and will take a lot of juggling my life around and driving to get to Lincoln everyday but with support I'll do it. Master F, if it's something you really want to do then do it. You can apply for a maintainance grant as well which you don't have to pay back, but you will have to pay your fees back when you earn over 15 grand a year (I think it is) Good luck
skinnydipper Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 Sounds perfect. I'm going to look into this. Any recommendations? I never have any money left over each month after i've paid the mortgage, so that won't be different. If you can do something you're interested in it helps because for all the good times you'll have you've still got to pass the exams at the end of the year.I'm not aware of any British Uni running a course in Porno .. I did Law because it was something I hadn't done before.Some of it was really interesting, other bits boring.It helped me get a decent job and income.That was a bonus.Also try for a good student town or city as there will be more going on. I'm a bit out of touch with where the buzz student locations are but I imagine Newcastle, Leeds, Bristol and Bournemouth would be good.Bottom line is if you're up for it you'll have a great time wherever you go
Stevosevic Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 Uni is the tits! Especially if you get into a decent one and do a worthwhile degree, but if you dont, it will still be brilliant and still of benefit to you.
Bellend Sebastian Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 I have mixed emotions about University, which are inevitably coloured by the fact that I was severely depressed the entire time I was there, which does make it kind of difficult to look at it positively. Having relied on my basic intelligence to get me through the state school system with good grades without having to work very hard, I made the mistake of going to a good university where I was suddenly up against all these grammar school and privately educated kids that were used to working hard rather than just fluking their way through everything, and I just couldn't cut it. I went from being one of the top kids academically at school to being well below average - it didn't help that the course was SO boring, and bloody difficult as well. I ended up with an average qualification from a good university, and although I apparently got my first job because I was a graduate, I'm not convinced it actually made much difference. The thing that's changed so much since I went is the level of debt that students get themselves into. That's fine if you're going to be a doctor on £100,000 a year, but there seem to be a hell of a lot of graduates out there that have next to bugger all chance of getting a job any better than anyone else could get. We've interviewed quite a few recent graduates of late and they all have ridiculous wage expectations but don't know their arse from their elbow. At the same time, I made some very good friends at university who I'm still mates with 15 years later. In summary: dunno
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 Uni is weird over in your country fact I want don't know what to do with my life and i dont think i will ever be but as long as i am satisfied in my mind i'm happy. Thats why hobbies were invented peoples
Master Fox Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 Oh you did AAT whilst working for a top 15 accountancy firm, I didn't realise that. How did it go tits up then? Not tits up, it just sucks balls after 8 years. Dont try and glorify your mundane job.
Sods Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 Thinking of going in a years time. Anyone done business at uni? Was it worth it?
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 not yet.... U just seemed wise beyond your years Apparently
Fez of Mahrez Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 Not tits up, it just sucks balls after 8 years. Dont try and glorify your mundane job. Ain't that the truth. University was a laugh. Makes me chuckle, these people who have a real bee in their bonnet about people who go to uni. Whatever.
BigGibbo Posted 20 May 2008 Posted 20 May 2008 . . . . I'm born & bred Hinckley & all I've got to say is . . . . don't look back!
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