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My wife graduated in the UK more than 10 years ago and they havn't dropped it. |
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what a shitter id heard wrong unless its 15 years and plastic surgeory :) i want to move to canada but its so hard to get a visa there :( know any ladies who want marry an immigrant? i can cook, clean and do the sexing! |
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I really hate some students with their attitude that they can be so amazingly lazy "cos we're students!" I've been working for an electronics company for 2 years straight from doing A levels, I couldn't stand anymore learning and no 'doing'. I've just finished a HNC, which I did for 1 day a week at college, as part of my job as a trainee. I'm starting a part time (1 day a week) honours degree in Electrical and electronic engineering in september. It last 5 years, but the company is paying. By then I will have 7 years work experience, a degree, and will only be 26, and hopefully get a job as a designer engineer. Anyway, its the best decision I ever made, not to be a 'student'. I will still get a degree, but I have a job, have something to show for my time, have a chance to prove myself and am enjoying myself. So all you A level people, don't forget that university is not the only option. Teachers are biased because they all went, and have spent most of their lives in educational establishments, just remember that. |
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so you see nothing appealing in the student life? some say it's the best time of your life as far as life quality vs being slave to the wage is concerned. but hey. we're all different |
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i think its horses for courses, for me meeting people form all over the world has been awsome and its the friends ive made thats been important. socially i was a quiet guy who couldnt speak to people now i can talk to anyone prime example went to my mums hubbys dads (lol) 60th birthday was lumbered on a table with 70 year old middle class people who detested students and i managed to hold a very intelligent and intresting conversation because if met alot of peple i ahve alot to talk about and have learnt alot of different opinions... i dont mean it in a condesending im higher than you cos i went to uni way of course not just for me it was a good thing i would ahve liked to have done what dave_g did but when i was 18 i didnt know what i wanted to do with my life, im still uncertain and so for me university was a great stop gap where i can have great experiance and time to decided where my life should go but again its horses for courses my friend, its all about yourself |
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yeah so im missing out on all the fun of student life, etc. but I also miss out on the crippling debt. My total money goes up, theirs goes down. My mum knows someone who got a masters in engineering and couldnt get a job for love nor money because he had no experience, only 1 year with a company making parts for tanks, then 6 years of uni or somehting. its all about experience now. almost all of the people from 6th form are at uni now, some are doing really pointless degrees. a lot of people do degrees just to show that they are capable, like I know someone who is doing chemistry, but doenst want that as a job, she just wants somehting that will look good on a cv. well i can put that I have experience of working in the real world, not academia, that I have experience in getting the job done to a deadline in the real world. |
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you ahve a fair point such a high majority of people are going to university thesedays that there is a severe lack of skilled craftsmen (electricians, carpenters, mechanics and plumbers etc) which is why such industries are starting to make alot of money becaus ethey are in short supply but again you may have experiance but your lucky you knew what youw anted to do, for me i had no clue so my experiance prolly would ahve been either accounting (which ihave lots of experiance in as ive been doing it for 5 years now) but i wouldnt want to spend my life doing btw thats not uni experiance of accoutning ive worked for an accoutnant for 5 years i was infact offered a full time job where i would ahve studied for the accounting degree whilst working after 5 years (assuming i apssed) my wage would ahve been 50 grand a eyar and only working a 6month rotation with the boss (he does 6months then i do 6 running the business) but i turned it down... mainly because i dont want that sort of job, i dont want to be rich i would much rather be merely happy and so FOR ME having time to discover what sort of job i would like has made a difference |
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yeah suppose you're right, I'm lucky I knew what I wanted. Just always wanted to do electronics for as long as I can remember. Trouble is it's been declining in the UK since the 1970's since it is so much cheaper for people in the far east /china to do it. |
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my german a level equivalent results are A B- B+ A- .. and i got a place at london metropolitan university for philosophy. |
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I'm just going through with this in case the music thing doesn't work out. |
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