University

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!

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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

Hard House With a Groove & a Chuckle

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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

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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

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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

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Mark-E (GainRider)
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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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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

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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!!!!

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

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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