Depression after uni?

dotnetwill said:
My closest friends and I have all been out of uni for approximately one year now and we all have jobs but recently everyone is depressed and thinks life is pointless. Is this a normal, get out of uni and realise life is a pants stage or are we feeding each others depression?
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Jobs aren't supposed to make you happy, they're not designed for that. If you're depressed, perhaps you're relying on your job to provide things that it simply isnt
 
The fact that he got a relevant degree is the key here. I got misguided and did one in I.T. It is not needed and is simply something on my CV to show i can spell my own name. If i had my time again, i would've spent those 3 years doing specific industry training or like the man above, software engineering. I'll be going back again in september however to do Civil Engineering so i can use £10 notes as toilet paper :D

(Yes, i know practically a tenner wouldn't be absorbant :P)

Edit: Another point, having my family and friends that i'll be rich when i'm older didn't help my mindset. Teachers used to almost say it was essential to have a degree to get a good job. My father is a plumber and takes home more than the dam sixth form combined. I'm quite incensed people are told to goto Uni even when they don't know what career they want to do, with Trivial subjects appearing all the time (Goto UCAS website, you'll be horrified), further making the qualification null and void.
 
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V3g3tto said:
It doesn't. How many people do Business Management degrees? Media studies? ,etc. What possible use to an employer are these?
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I got a lot of useful skills whan I did my Business Studies degree, it just took me a while to find the kind of job that could make the best use of them. I'm now a Business Analyst working in a lot of different areas.

Because I have a background in fields like Marketing, Advertising, IT, Economics and Accountancy I can and do work in any of these fields and am able to converse with Users and understand their requirements.

Most people who get a degree don't know how to apply it best or seek out roles where their qualification isn't required.
 
[DOD]Asprilla;11366142 said:
I got a lot of useful skills whan I did my Business Studies degree, it just took me a while to find the kind of job that could make the best use of them. I'm now a Business Analyst working in a lot of different areas.

Because I have a background in fields like Marketing, Advertising, IT, Economics and Accountancy I can and do work in any of these fields and am able to converse with Users and understand their requirements.

Most people who get a degree don't know how to apply it best or seek out roles where their qualification isn't required.
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You have done very well then, but i am sure you would have seriously had to specialize those skills. I started doing Joint I.T. w/ Business Management, then minor Business Managment, then changed it to associated. I found both subjects way to generalized to be of practical use to someone employing me and.

My mate did the opposite, Majoring in Business Management: We both now work in Engineering, my private sector, him public by pure chance. I'd do anything to change my degree to an engineering one and i may very well do one part-time.
 
V3g3tto said:
You have done very well then, but i am sure you would have seriously had to specialize those skills. I started doing Joint I.T. w/ Business Management, then minor Business Managment, then changed it to associated. I found both subjects way to generalized to be of practical use to someone employing me and.
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True, if someone want's an 'office job' then a Business Studies degree is of little value because you'd pick up everything you needed in your first few weeks. However, if you wish to go into a job that involves 'business theory' such as consultant or business analyst then a Business Studies degree is an excellent starting point.
 
[DOD]Asprilla;11365650 said:
This man speaks the truth.

Life improved immensly after uni - have more money and my evenings and weekends are not interupted by coursework.

Also, I no-longer have to share a house with idiots and those with questionable personal hygine.
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So true. I'm looking forward to finishing uni. I've had enough of spending almost all of my spare time doing uni related work, leaving little time for myself, friends and family.
 
Yeh, i think what i'm trying to say is, decide what career you want to go into that's feasible and you'd enjoy with good prospects, then decide if a specific degree would help that. In your case it would.

I think that employers would look at someone with a totally useless degree like...Equistrian Studies (spelling) lol, worse than someone with no degree at all. I wasn't far off though, i should've just done Computer science, instead was forced to do Business too. Still work in I.T. (CAD)though, so i can't complain.
 
Think of the positives:

- Earning money (more to spend on holidays and nights out)
- Being able to go home and not have any coursework to do
- If you're a software engineer, the chance to work at Google and other funky companies who actually treat their staff decently

I loved university but I'm still having great fun. I have less free time but that doesn't mean that it's the end of the world.

Have you thought about joining some kind of club or class?
 
I'm a member of the pub club, i go out and get so rat-arsed i can't remember a thing the next day. Technically it's time travel, as i am literally skipping a day.

And course-work at Uni, mine must've been crap because i had stuff that took maybe an hour tops, even the project management crap.
 
Jesus, im depressed AT uni let alone when i get out.
I LOVE the social side, but the difficulty of work is really starting to grind me down, and an impending placement year even more so.
 
@ FrostedNipple: ROFL :D

@ Bes:

Your comment was totally misguided and somewhat ignorant. I'm (now gonna wave my erect e-peen) at a so called top uni. its thanks to the losers who have no intelligence or charisma that I hate my university. You have to be an absolute ******* retard not to get a 2:1. Sorry but its true. So many time wasters and parrots at my uni who waste everyone's time, who can't comment in class because.... guess what? They Have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO SAY FOR THEMSELVES and are so completely dull that having any academic interest or ability is completely wasted.

@ OP:

Count yourself VERY very lucky that you only started suffering recently or after uni. Try starting when you're 13 and just getting worse and worse. Some people make me sick as they call themselves depressed when they are just bored. Well old boy, just deal with it or seek help. I dont beg for sympathy and I don't give any either.


/annoyed
 
Voltar said:
@ Bes:

Your comment was totally misguided and somewhat ignorant. I'm (now gonna wave my erect e-peen) at a so called top uni. its thanks to the losers who have no intelligence or charisma that I hate my university. You have to be an absolute ******* retard not to get a 2:1. Sorry but its true. So many time wasters and parrots at my uni who waste everyone's time, who can't comment in class because.... guess what? They Have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO SAY FOR THEMSELVES and are so completely dull that having any academic interest or ability is completely wasted.
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I didn't go to a top uni and quite agree, most of the people there were complete retards, and were wasting their time... To not get a 2:1 at my uni was pretty laughable IMO, as you would have to be a complete numpty.
 
this whole uni and fun = depressing job is rubbish. I'm having a great time at uni but its because im working. I enjoy what I do. Hopefully i'll get a good job at the end of it. Oh yeah, and im doing media! :p (production...thats different to just watching films)
 
Haha I was talking about this today

Since finishing uni I've been so miserable

I really miss my friends and the lifestyle, my job gets me down, and money is suddenly so much more of a problem

So yeah :(
 
Uni = win...

I'm sort of looking forward to after uni when i can have a steady income, but i'll never get back the days where i can afford to get up at 1pm, laz around for a while, play some games, go on the net, then go to a few hours of lectures, then off drinkin in the evening.
(although having said that only about 15 mins ago i remembered i had an essay in for friday which i had totally forgotten about, which has made me a bit :()
 
You think it's bad now. I left college 17 years ago - and life just keeps getting more complicated. But there is that small chink of saving light called beer.

Wait till you have kids, a wife, real stress, friends/relatives who are dying all over the palce - have to work 50+ hours a week to pay £1200 every month on bills and are too tired to enjoy anything apart from bed.

At least I get 2 weeks away on holiday every year to partially relax.....and I have a retirement fund - so it's only another 15 years of life like this.
 
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Voltar said:
You have to be an absolute ******* retard not to get a 2:1. Sorry but its true. So many time wasters and parrots at my uni who waste everyone's time, who can't comment in class because.... guess what? They Have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO SAY FOR THEMSELVES and are so completely dull that having any academic interest or ability is completely wasted.
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Utter BS.

I have a 2.2 In Business Studies, mainly because I hated university and I disagreed with much of what and how we were taught, not to mention the fact that I had to work nights to support myself. I'm opinionated and I base my opinions on finding things out for my self, rather than what people tell me. I'm pretty much the opposite of what you describe.

Additionally, and here goes me waving my 'e-peen', I'm a paid up member of Mensa and I earn in excess of 100k a year.

Obviously I'm a non-mark ******* retard.

I suggest you get out more and learn that it diff'rent strokes to move the world....
 
God some of you make life sound dire.

The important thing is to realise that once you've got what you've always wanted career wise.. is that it is just a career. Work to LIVE not live to WORK. Education has been focussing your entire early life on this moment, the moment you arrive at real life; and it does sweet nada to prepare you for actually living, for real life. Work -> Make money -> Do stuff. Hobbies, socialising, whatever, but do stuff. Work earns you the money, save sensibly, and spend wisely too. Spend on your passions, stuff that gets you excited, stuff you enjoy doing. For me my focus is more music and my guitars.. I look forward to my Thursday nights, a local pub does a popular open mic night and I get a chance to sing and play. Tomorrow night I'm off to the west end to catch a play after work, and so on.
I still like my job, I love the challenges it presents, the opportunities to learn new tricks and get my teeth in to stuff, but it is still a means to an end.
 
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