University

Did you go? Was it worth it and have you managed to use your degree to get a job you other wise may have not?

3 months ago

Gareth Cheeseman
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18355 Posts

Derby

Hard House / NRG

Yes and probably (still work in the same area as the degree)

3 months ago

5517 Posts

I got a degree after I got a job smile

3 months ago

3372 Posts

Yes, had a fucking great time, grew up a little bit, learn a lot, and now I seem to get jobs I want in IT.

3 months ago

hmmm it is rather tempting I must say. Problem is I would have to do a open ended course with a large career scope as I dont want to be tied down to a small certain field. I was accepted for a course in media production but never went ahead with it.

3 months ago

Lux

3017 Posts

Brighton

Acidspunk

Went to Uni for 3 months - hated it. Didn't get any A levels either. Just went vocational quali's. Seem to be doing alright now laughing

Missus has just gone back to Uni to do a PT masters whilst holding down 4day/week job - she is VERY busy. 2far

3 months ago

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Iv been working in student accommodation recently and i must say they have been among the most arrogant useless twats i have ever come across, im not sure if its because they think they are better than me because im a electrician but it really pissed me off. They also seem to have no clue about anything like they have just come straight from being mothered.

3 months ago

Max

22725 Posts

Bangkok

Hard Disco House

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Iv been working in student accommodation recently and i must say they have been among the most arrogant useless twats i have ever come across, im not sure if its because they think they are better than me because im a electrician but it really pissed me off. They also seem to have no clue about anything like they have just come straight from being mothered.

Yeah as everyone who goes to uni is like that uhoh

3 months ago

24926 Posts

nope and been in the same shit job for past 6yrs.

saying that know alot of people who went to uni and are in shit jobs like me so hey ho

3 months ago

3341 Posts

I started a BSc in Sound Engineering & Design when I was 19. The £4K+ I got through student loans, overdrafts etc meant I spent most of it off my head & playing on the new decks I'd bought.

Dropped out. Regretted it ever since. Pisses me off when I look at my wage slip every month & see that I am now paying for it even though I have nothing to show for it. I'm also in a job that I can tolerate but is extremely mundane. violent

Serves me right.

3 months ago

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36614 Posts

ketom central

NOT FOR THE PLEASANT!

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I started a BSc in Sound Engineering & Design when I was 19. The £4K+ I got through student loans, overdrafts etc meant I spent most of it off my head & playing on the new decks I'd bought.

Dropped out. Regretted it ever since. Pisses me off when I look at my wage slip every month & see that I am now paying for it even though I have nothing to show for it. I'm also in a job that I can tolerate but is extremely mundane. violent

Serves me right.

same. i fucked it twice, and yeah, serves me right.

Mark - most employers aren't actually looking for a related area degree so you should be fine with most subjects.

3 months ago

LoadedDice
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273 Posts

Perth

Hells elevator music

i hated my job(s) so went to uni, got a BE, had a great time and learned a shit load, have a f#%king awesome job now, plan on going back to get my MBA within 5 years too.

3 months ago

Dr Walter Bishop
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22247 Posts

Boston, Massachusetts

Fringe

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Iv been working in student accommodation recently and i must say they have been among the most arrogant useless twats i have ever come across, im not sure if its because they think they are better than me because im a electrician but it really pissed me off. They also seem to have no clue about anything like they have just come straight from being mothered.

I wish i could be a electrician, If you are an electrician you are pretty much set for life, Electricians are always needed and they will always be needed, In every single country too so you can work anywhere you want really, I'd train to be one but i am not allowed by law because i have a sight impediment, I see greens and reds slightly different to everyone else, I cant do those eye tests where you have to see a number in the coloured dots frown

3 months ago

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I went to uni, although never really wanted to go myself, got talked into it with the whole "you can't miss an opportunity like this" arguement.... student loans, overdrafts plus the job running the union bar I got while there meant I did pretty much the same as Venks, a massive shroom comedown was what made me finally ring home and say I needed to jack it in, come back and sort myself out munted

Daft thing is, after I'd sorted all my debts out, I did evening class's to train as a carpenter... what I had wanted to do instead, wish I'd stood my ground and not lost out on years of experience, but you live and learn...

Plus I did discover hard house at uni, so wasn't a complete waste laughing

3 months ago

Uni
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Danny, think that's colour blindness mate, got it myself, pretty severely too, worst thing is, when I was at school, they did the test, then came in with 2 A4 sheets of paper, stacked with all the jobs I wouldn't be allowed to do because of it, doing that to a 10 year old kid, fucking wankers, I'll never forgive or forget that, basically they said you can be a bin man.

3 months ago

Uni
2 Posts

I could sue the bastards, I just might.

3 months ago

Dr Walter Bishop
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22247 Posts

Boston, Massachusetts

Fringe

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Danny, think that's colour blindness mate, got it myself, pretty severely too, worst thing is, when I was at school, they did the test, then came in with 2 A4 sheets of paper, stacked with all the jobs I wouldn't be allowed to do because of it, doing that to a 10 year old kid, fucking wankers, I'll never forgive or forget that, basically they said you can be a bin man.

Haha yeah, I remember the list too at primary school, Wankers! haha

I'm not colour blind, I just see reds and greens a slightly different shade to everyone else. I still see them as red and green though, But obviously as electrians regularly go into electric boxes with shit loads of different coloured wires then i cant do that, Well thats what i was told, Not sure how many greens and reds there are in big electric boxes though haha.

3 months ago

PMA

8587 Posts

Artcore

I never went, kind of wish I did though, more and more vacancies seem to be demanding qualifications of some kind these days. I'm also the only one of four siblings not to do so so feel like I perhaps should've made the effort rather than dropping out of college and getting into the print. I've considered doing courses now but it's so expensive. Fuck it, if this mural/wall painting thing I'm starting kicks off fairly well I'll probably stop regretting it smile

3 months ago

VICIOUS KEN
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12844 Posts

Flimby-on-Sea

Lovely Lovely Songs

I never went to uni & dont feel like i missed out on anything. Its no guarantee that you'll get a good job at the end of it but you are guaranteed to end up with a shit load of debt and no practical work experience.

Im not in a great job but it pays relatively well & its totally stress free - I fulfill my creative needs & feed my soul with activities outside of work. Im pretty content thumbsup

3 months ago

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I got the necessary qualifications to get me into nursing; studied for 3 years to qualify, studied since to gain higher qualifications.
Had the time of my life whilst training, worked hard & partied even harder. thumbsup

Now it's degree based qualification for nursing now, good to come out with that but I feel some lack the general common sense that's required and some are keen to just deligate and not roll their sleeves up and get stuck in.

Post edited by owner 20/02/2012 18:46:43

3 months ago

PMA

8587 Posts

Artcore

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I got the necessary qualifications to get me into nursing; studied for 3 years to qualify, studied since to gain higher qualifications.
Had the time of my life whilst training, worked hard & partied even harder. thumbsup

Now it's degree based qualification for nursing now, good to come out with that but I feel some lack the general common sense that's required and some are keen to just deligate and not roll their sleeves up and get stuck in.

3 months ago

Pete Lewis
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1485 Posts

Hamilton

heaps of different shite

I am looking for a new job at the moment, and are finding that most employers are after a some sort of qualification rather than just experience.

Looking back I probably should have done something to help myslf out a bit...saying that I am doing okay.

3 months ago

3341 Posts

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I never went to uni & dont feel like i missed out on anything. Its no guarantee that you'll get a good job at the end of it but you are guaranteed to end up with a shit load of debt and no practical work experience.

Im not in a great job but it pays relatively well & its totally stress free - I fulfill my creative needs & feed my soul with activities outside of work. Im pretty content thumbsup

Agree with the first bit to a certain extent. The guy who sits next to me at work has a Masters in Computer Science and I have 'Did not complete degree' on my CV. What I do have is 5 years experience - which can be as appealing to an employer, if not more in some cases.

I recently applied for a job in Manchester that has a company policy of hiring graduates & got an interview which went really well (should hear this week if I have got it biggrin

). It's a shame I don't actually enjoy what I do for a living though, definitely would have looked forward to getting up for work every morning if I worked in a recording studio or at a radio station frown

Too busy trying to put things up my nose or my widgey in anything that moved. thumbsdown

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3 months ago

Hoover slut
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22664 Posts

Southend

Nasty As Fuck

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In reply to
I never went to uni & dont feel like i missed out on anything. Its no guarantee that you'll get a good job at the end of it but you are guaranteed to end up with a shit load of debt and no practical work experience.

Im not in a great job but it pays relatively well & its totally stress free - I fulfill my creative needs & feed my soul with activities outside of work. Im pretty content thumbsup

Agree with the first bit to a certain extent. The guy who sits next to me at work has a Masters in Computer Science and I have 'Did not complete degree' on my CV. What I do have is 5 years experience - which can be as appealing to an employer, if not more in some cases.

I recently applied for a job in Manchester that has a company policy of hiring graduates & got an interview which went really well (should hear this week if I have got it biggrin

). It's a shame I don't actually enjoy what I do for a living though, definitely would have looked forward to getting up for work every morning if I worked in a recording studio or at a radio station frown

Too busy trying to put things up my nose or my widgey in anything that moved. thumbsdown

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The way i read that sentence n that bit i thought you meant shoving stuff up your arse yawn

3 months ago

3341 Posts

There may or may not have been some of that as well tbf. There's a couple of evenings unaccounted for during that period of my life idea

Post edited by owner 2/20/2012 7:11:26 PM

3 months ago

26935 Posts

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In reply to
I got the necessary qualifications to get me into nursing; studied for 3 years to qualify, studied since to gain higher qualifications.
Had the time of my life whilst training, worked hard & partied even harder. thumbsup

Now it's degree based qualification for nursing now, good to come out with that but I feel some lack the general common sense that's required and some are keen to just deligate and not roll their sleeves up and get stuck in.

It's the best way

3 months ago

Yep I went to Man met. Got a 2:1 in Cell and molecular biology.

I just left Life technologies , the biggest molecular diagnostics company in the world to work for Gen-Probe Manchester in the research and development dept.

Double edged sword really as I earn 30k plus a year. However uni debt means my monthly outgoings are 300 pound more than they should be due to my choice to take large chunks out of the loans, overdraughts and credit cards I maxed out like a total gimp when I was a student.

My job is amazing though as I get to play around with mutations and disease genes to try and find out ways of using genetic markers to diagnose diseases such as Downs, CF and Gauchers syndromes in unborne foetus's. Another part of the technology looks at bacterial identification using DNA as a target.

My advice is only go to uni if you have a clear view of what your career aim is. And go when you are more mature than I was as i fucked myself up a fair bit and didnt get the marks I was capable of. thumbsup

3 months ago

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Fair play Tim, but what a shite job. All that effort to fuck around with test tubes.

Thing is you've got to be intelligent to appreciate that sort of job. Beats driving people around for a living. Also carrying heavy things, in fact anything that requires manual work or having to talk to the great unwashed. laughing

Chances are he gets paid more than you too.

3 months ago

WONGA!

23601 Posts

Did an undergrad and postgrad in Design - am now a Designer - worked out ok laughing

Probably didn't need to do them, but they definitely didn't hurt.

3 months ago

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36614 Posts

ketom central

NOT FOR THE PLEASANT!

My advice is only go to uni if you have a clear view of what your career aim is. And go when you are more mature than I was as i fucked myself up a fair bit and didnt get the marks I was capable of. thumbsup

best bit of advice on here thumbsup

3 months ago

2411 Posts

In reply to

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Iv been working in student accommodation recently and i must say they have been among the most arrogant useless twats i have ever come across, im not sure if its because they think they are better than me because im a electrician but it really pissed me off. They also seem to have no clue about anything like they have just come straight from being mothered.

Yeah as everyone who goes to uni is like that uhoh

no just most of them

3 months ago

3341 Posts

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My advice is only go to uni if you have a clear view of what your career aim is. And go when you are more mature than I was as i fucked myself up a fair bit and didnt get the marks I was capable of. thumbsup

best bit of advice on here thumbsup

Agreed. It's a lot of responsibility for an 18 year old to handle. Especially one who would rather be listening to music, taking drugs & trying to hump anything that moves than doing any work.... thumbsup

3 months ago

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My advice is only go to uni if you have a clear view of what your career aim is. And go when you are more mature than I was as i fucked myself up a fair bit and didnt get the marks I was capable of. thumbsup

best bit of advice on here thumbsup

Agreed. It's a lot of responsibility for an 18 year old to handle. Especially one who would rather be listening to music, taking drugs & trying to hump anything that moves than doing any work.... thumbsup

This is the problem, I dont really have a clear objective so dont want to go for the sake of it but on the same hand dont want to miss out. I am fed up of doing sales jobs with such variable wages and dont want to be doing that kind of work the rest of my life.

3 months ago

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Fair play Tim, but what a shite job. All that effort to fuck around with test tubes.

Hehe it can be boring sometimes to be honest....only the set up and plating out of 96 samples on a plate.

Test tubes? I only work with microlitres me old cocker! Its all about the 96 well micro plates!!!!

3 months ago

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In reply to
Fair play Tim, but what a shite job. All that effort to fuck around with test tubes.

Thing is you've got to be intelligent to appreciate that sort of job. Beats driving people around for a living. Also carrying heavy things, in fact anything that requires manual work or having to talk to the great unwashed. laughing

Chances are he gets paid more than you too.

Nah haha. As a cabby I think if he works 90 hours a week he might earn somewhere close to what I do!! love

Hmmmmm stressy london roads compared to my nice shiny lab !!

3 months ago

5517 Posts

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In reply to
Fair play Tim, but what a shite job. All that effort to fuck around with test tubes.

Hehe it can be boring sometimes to be honest....only the set up and plating out of 96 samples on a plate.

Test tubes? I only work with microlitres me old cocker! Its all about the 96 well micro plates!!!!

Can you grow me a test tube burger for less than £200,000? laughing

3 months ago

Oh yes easy. I just need the sequence for hoofs and tongue!! Haha

3 months ago

Stu

6341 Posts

Leeds

I've had 3 different experiences of uni;

1st was as an undergraduate doing my BA in Sheffield. Some fun times, good house parties etc but I didn't get in to the uni that I wanted to do the course that I wanted so that always hung over the whole experience as the teaching at my uni was pretty shit. 8 hours of lectures a week was a bit of a joke, I don't know how they can justify £9,000 fees if that is still the case. It could also be quite a boring and lonely experience; in my first year I was in pretty shit halls where nobody was into the music I liked and it was full of silly little cunts who couldn't even wipe their own arse let alone keep the kitchen clean. Ultimately I felt a bit let down by the whole experience.

2nd time was to do my MA and it was a completely different experience. Much more contact with lecturers / engaging with the subject. Still went out to party now and then but definitely was more studious, and enjoyed it more.

3rd time - back at uni to do my PhD now and again it's a completely different experience. 1st name terms with all the professors, teaching duties but tons and tons and tons of book reading to do, let along the fieldwork / research I have to do over the next 3 years. Oh, and the fact that I have to submit a 100,000 word book at the end. It's like a really rewarding but unpaid job. laughing

3 months ago

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A fair few students are insufferable little pricks who don't know their arse from their elbow. But, I reckon a lot of folk would be, when presented with new temptations and the means to access them then and there.

Personally I'm glad I went because it helped me grow up a bit. I also strongly believe that the life and opportunities I've got now are (via a longish chain of events)because I went to uni, but not because of what I studied. The act of going has ended up being more valueable to me than what I learnt. Further, I'm lucky in that in 1995 I qualified for a grant, and whilst I also got student loans each year, at 3% interest and with the old payback policy, I was able to manage the debts ok.

I agree with the above comment about making sure you have a definite objective in mind.

3 months ago