Best Degrees and Careers present and future ?

Jonny69 said:
They might let you in with a BTEC, but unless you're good with pure and mechanics maths you're going to struggle with an engineering degree, particularly something like mechanical engineering. Not meaning that as a dig, it's just a warning.
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On my btec electronics they did calculus, linear mathematics(Matrices, Vectors) and complex numbers. Seemed pretty easy.
 
Moses said:
Is this a troll thread?

a) obvious work ethic issues
b) completely retarded attitude to getting a job
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What I was thinking, if you just do something for the money you will en up getting bored and sucking at your job, but that's my opinion.

KaHn
 
Boom! Merchant Navy

Get paid to train whilst gaining valuable experience and qualifications that are well respected outside the Merchant Navy, such as the oil and gas industry. I've just started a 3 year cadetship through Clyde Marine, and will be going to sea in August for approximately 6 months. But I am weird like that, being "young" (read old), free & single means I'm looking forward to seeing more of the world than I ever would have previously, whilst earning a good tax-free wage in a career with a clearly laid out progression once I qualify.
 
What a stupid way to see life. Going for the best paid job, which is the only reason you took it?

No offence, but if I was your employer, in the interview I said "Right, I see you have some qualifications, that's all good. Why start in this line of work?" "Ummm, money really"... I would show you the door.

Working in a job you have no interest in adds such a depressing outlook on life, you hate working, hate what you are doing and eventually bring that back home with you.

I would strongly suggest you speak to a careers advisor, have an interview and see what they suggest! It is their job, they get paid to do it so they must be better than you at deciding!

I never in a million years thought I would work in IT (generalising it) when at school, never took it for a GCSE, nor at college. When I came out of college (dropped out due to not liking what I was doing) I thought long and hard about what I wanted to do, mate suggested IT, I had a look around...

Next thing I know, it's my career and I love it to bits. Took some hard work getting to where I am due to no qualifications, but I got here safe and sound :)

ags
 
What does "pay really well" mean to you? 30k+? 100k+? 1M+?

And why do you think you need a degree to earn that sort of cash?
 
Become a contractors quantity surveyor, varied work, meet loads of people, interesting, your actually build something and see people use what you've had input in.

Go in as an assistant / trainee QS, day release HND then day release University, depending on location should be £18-25k pa starting, after 10 years expect £60k+ pa if your any good
 
A friend of mine who was made redundant got the DWP to pay for a Cisco CCNA boot camp for him if you fancy networking. They covered the cost and you can resit as many times as you like until you get it. It's very intense but it only lasts a week. He took two attempts and passed the CCNA 2nd attempt. He was an IP telephony engineer in his previous job and is now contracting for considerable wedge, padded his cv out with Avaya courses which were free. CCNA will not get you a highly paid job, it's experience you require so get your foot in the door and maybe it will lead to a higher paid job later. Enquire at the job centre.
 
I'd highly recommend going to a good University and obtaining a good degree. A placement works wonders! Managed to leave school with no GCSEs and now I think of myself as very successful. What I had was determination and persistence (retook GCSEs, got a First class degree, a placement with a top consultancy firm and now finishing a popular graduate programme).

All you really need is the mind set and support of others. The rest comes relatively easy.
 
Anyone involved in the Nuclear Power industry either here or abroad ? Seen a few articles highlighting a shortage of workers in this industry - young massively under represented + retirement age massively over represented = labour supply problem.

Wondering what the pay is like ? What roles are available ? What qualifications are needed ?

Is it a shed load harder to bring in Chindian workers, given the safety / security aspects ? Don't fancy competing against that crowd again, can't compete against workers willing to accept crap living conditions (8+ to a 3 bed rental house), outrageous demands from employer and no intention of settling in the UK.
 
Vtec9k said:
What does "pay really well" mean to you? 30k+? 100k+? 1M+?

And why do you think you need a degree to earn that sort of cash?
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30k+ and able to work up higher over the years. What sort of jobs have you got in mind that don't require degree applicants ?

triggerthat said:
I'd highly recommend going to a good University and obtaining a good degree. A placement works wonders! Managed to leave school with no GCSEs and now I think of myself as very successful. What I had was determination and persistence (retook GCSEs, got a First class degree, a placement with a top consultancy firm and now finishing a popular graduate programme).

All you really need is the mind set and support of others. The rest comes relatively easy.
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Thats awesome mate, what degree and graduate programme are you doing ?
 
Get an Oxbridge degree yo, then do accounting/law/banking/consulting - the former will give excellent access to all of the latter.
 
Do all of the above, then in 10 years time wake up one morning realising how miserable life is because you don't enjoy what you do :p
 
Train to be a Plumber. Massive demand. £100K possible self-employed. And you get to service many an old boiler while the husbands are at work............;)
 
As somebody said above, if you do a degree only do something you know you're going to enjoy.

I finished with a 2:1 in History, which I studied because I enjoyed it. But I knew all along I wanted to be a Solicitor, and now I'm on the Graduate Diploma in Law course taking the first step towards that. If I had done a degree I didn't enjoy, I probably wouldn't have got the 2:1 I needed, and anything below that makes it considerably difficult to get into the profession even if you do have excellent A-Levels.

But even still, my A-Levels wont serve me well enough to get into a good law firm so I'm considering going back and studying one of two more A-Levels to show that I can achieve the A grades when I apply myself. And what A-Levels and I going to study? English literature most likely because I enjoy reading, and I could even take the pee and do one in Law as well! Although I'll most likely do English Language as well as I'm pretty good at essays now.

But despite what people tell you, even in Law its tough to get into now. Many firms haven't been recruiting as heavily the last couple of years and its expected to remain the same for another 1 or 2, the competition for places is getting steeper due to an inflation in the number of places available for students to go onto the Law Practitioners Course, and now with the rise of the A* at A-Level, those grades will inevitably overshadow the grades of those who finished college 4 or 5 years ago.

So it's a bit of a bummer really.
 
I love Law and have always been interested in it ever since I was like 3 years old and even I find it extremely boring and saturated sometimes.

Have fun getting a real degree where you have no interest whatsoever in it besides the slight hope you'll get a job at the end.
 
franco_22 said:
I love Law and have always been interested in it ever since I was like 3 years old and even I find it extremely boring and saturated sometimes.

Have fun getting a real degree where you have no interest whatsoever in it besides the slight hope you'll get a job at the end.
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What that supposed to be some form of half attempt of a dig at me?
 
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