Three Quarters of Students Won't Pay Back Debt

[ADK]

Life experience like working in McDonalds?

[MooseBreath]

Life experience like working in McDonalds?

If that's all you can think of then you need to expand your horizons, and that's putting it mildly.

[davieG]

MrsG did a degree in her 40s but after 3 years of intensive study was sick and bored with the subject and never made use of it. So life experience in itself is no guarantee you'll pick the right subject.

 

Mind you it didn't help that she became disillusioned with the whole concept as she saw people getting top marks and awards who were not only late handing in assignments but also did not even complete some of the compulsory requirements. I saw the same thing when I did my DMS. Both at DeMont.

 

We both got the impression thst it was easy to scam yourself a degree with little effort as the uni was so intent on getting good pass results.

[filbertway]

imo if you pick a uni course without a plan for after uni aka, you not doing a degree for a job in the same field,  you are stupid.

 

literally throwing money away

 

sickening as well all these student protests, students are the most over privileged group of people

 

I did that, wasn't entirely sure what I wanted to do after the three years, but was interested in how games were made/wanted to learn how to program.

 

By the end of year 2 after working in different modules I knew I wanted to move into web or app development. Graduated a few years ago and have been working as a Web Developer ever since.

 

All of this was after finishing school after my A levels absolutely fed up of education and going straight into work. After 10 months of temping in factories and a few months in admin I decided that was not what I wanted from the rest of my life. Studying in an area that interested me helped me nail down a profession to aim for and paid off in the end.

 

It can work both ways.

[ScouseFox]

when i was finishing sixth form every teacher, careers advisor and adult i knew tried to get me to go to uni but i didn't really know what i wanted to do. the way kids are just told you go school---sixth form/college---uni and are barely even given a choice in the matter is a bit heavy imo. does anyone really know what they want to do for the next 50+ years when they're 16/17?

 

i'm 20 now and haven't totally written off the idea of doing a degree at some stage, but when i applied and got into unis when i was 17/18 i didn't know what i wanted to do apart from the fact i was boss at maths but didn't really enjoy it all that much. i might end up doing some sort of career involving maths and accountancy and something boring but i didn't want to spend another 3 or 4 years and about 40 grand on something i didn't really enjoy when i was 18/19/20/21. so i got a job that i do enjoy, i have more money than pretty much anyone else i'm mates with, no debt, still live "the student life" in terms of going out, enjoying myself, except instead of paying 9 grand a year to be bored at the back of some bullshit economics class i actually get paid to watch horse racing. and my ma does my washing. THE DREAM. 

[filbertway]

 

so i got a job that i do enjoy, i have more money than pretty much anyone else i'm mates with, no debt, still live "the student life" in terms of going out, enjoying myself, except instead of paying 9 grand a year to be bored at the back of some bullshit economics class i actually get paid to watch horse racing. and my ma does my washing. THE DREAM. 

 

I don't know how you're in work mate, you seem to be smashed every night haha. Thought you were a student. Assuming you work in a bookies based on the description, so the clients are probably all smashed anyway so it wouldn't matter if you rolled in stinking of booze

[ScouseFox]

I don't know how you're in work mate, you seem to be smashed every night haha. Thought you were a student. Assuming you work in a bookies based on the description, so the clients are probably all smashed anyway so it wouldn't matter if you rolled in stinking of booze

 

haha yeah just fitting in with the customers aren't i . 

 

yeah william hill, pretty much all my mates are students tho so go out a fair bit, gigs, pubs, town etc but i'm the only numpty who's up for work at 7 the next day. tbf the way the shifts work with it being open from 9am til 9.30 pm half the time i don't start work til the afternoon so i can kip it off. 

 

like i said though living the student life except i don't pay to be bored a few times a week, i get paid for it instead 

[Unabomber]

when i was finishing sixth form every teacher, careers advisor and adult i knew tried to get me to go to uni but i didn't really know what i wanted to do. the way kids are just told you go school---sixth form/college---uni and are barely even given a choice in the matter is a bit heavy imo. does anyone really know what they want to do for the next 50+ years when they're 16/17?

i'm 20 now and haven't totally written off the idea of doing a degree at some stage, but when i applied and got into unis when i was 17/18 i didn't know what i wanted to do apart from the fact i was boss at maths but didn't really enjoy it all that much. i might end up doing some sort of career involving maths and accountancy and something boring but i didn't want to spend another 3 or 4 years and about 40 grand on something i didn't really enjoy when i was 18/19/20/21. so i got a job that i do enjoy, i have more money than pretty much anyone else i'm mates with, no debt, still live "the student life" in terms of going out, enjoying myself, except instead of paying 9 grand a year to be bored at the back of some bullshit economics class i actually get paid to watch horse racing. and my ma does my washing. THE DREAM.

wtf had you down as mid to late 40s

[ScouseFox]

why even talk about my age? like i know you? 

[Trav Le Bleu]

Won't pay or can't pay?

[Samilktray]

Scousefox is at least 33.