Evening all 
Bit of a dilema with lots of decisions coming up, so here are my rather unorganized thoughts and a bit of background, just get some different takes on my options;
On Tuesday I went to a rather nice party for the end of the Birmingham Uni year, this was also the one year anniversary of my own graduation. Most of my friends are still at Uni or living in Birmingham.
About January time I left Birmingham, I thought It would provide me a chance to save for a house, clear my remaining uni debts, collect money from the people who owned it to me (from afar) and get some distance from the place I love for some obscure reason, this was mainly for work reasons. All of the above have been achieved, I'm now totally debt free aside from 3K Remaining Student loan, and the guy who took my old aprtment owes me £1K.
Work! Work for me is mainly in "The City" which is that bit on the outside of that bend in the Thaems which has the big dome on the inside a meander.
From my folks house it takes me about an hour to get to KingsX, so I don't have to be out of bed till 8 as I don't normally have to be on site till 10. So living in Lincolnshire has major advantages. Occasionally I work outside of London, sometimes abroad, there are opportunities in the business to move abroad and I may shortly be doing a stint in Algeria (I enjoy travveling, culture and photography). Work also provides me with Bupa, Life Insurance, an excellent pension scheme, a gym, HP Laptops and PDA's at cost, and a company car, as well as Quarterly parties that are all paid up for me and a partner, overnight stop included, I get on well with all of the staff I have so far met from my own organization.
Uni! The week just gone (party week), I was teaching a graduate course at my old University and during this time I was approached by many of my old lecturers, many of whom I am very close to, my attendance figure for uni was very low 8% at points, but I was always in contact with staff and was in most days talking about my modules and such, I had a couple of issues with dyslexia and ADD which didn't create many problems and the staff were happy with my learning style and my grades. Was also in therapy for big chunks at a time. The general vibe I got from the staff was that I should be doing a masters.
Bits and Bobs, I currently have a rather fit and affluent girlfriend (pharmasist), who also lives near my folks house, she would class our relationship as serious but I am getting less and less interested (We were seeing each other on and off when I was 16 -17, then a big gap till about 10 months ago.) I'm seriously considering binning her but constantly find myself being unable to do so due to an underlying condition she has (theres a long word for it but its something to do with an emotional trauma in her past).
In my final year of uni I got out of therapy for the last time in February and started to socialize and attend uni in a more consistant mannor, up until this point I had no debts other than my Student Loan. Then at a kind of "were glad your all sorted bash" held in my honour in the campus bar came along and I happened to meet this really exceptionally cool girl, who is just about the defintion of a perfect chick, we spent until June shacked up together, until she ended it for a reason not revealed to me (more on this later), now I'm pretty independent and highly social, as is this girl, niether of us are of the jeolos type and can happilly go out sepperately or together and flirt our arses off, rules were unspoken but niether of us took the **** - or wanted to, and it was grand.
Currently
I'm travelling to birmingham regularly to see the above mentioned chick and having a blast, I get to se all my friends, go to lots of gigs and parties, and generally do what I like doing around work, said chick has told me that she loves me and I feel the same way. We parted company before as she was about to emigrate to Argentina with her folks.
I've been offered a masters place with accomodation and all fee's paid for free at my old uni.
I'm going to end it with the current chick within the next 3 weeks.
I may have rights to a patent I produced while at uni, at the time I was scammed and recieved a £1000 cash prize, but no contracts of any paper work were ever produced by me or the uni, said patent would allow 3g access and emergency services radios to work on the tube/stations, company who bought it are a bit shifty.
I produced and prototyped another device at uni, which I may also own the rights to, I'm still learning about this.
My final year project was some Imaging software for Image archiving and identification, it was pretty cool, and apparently the uni would like to do stuff with it that may entitle me to a cut.
What should I do?!
All I want to do right now is Jack my job in when I reach a year with the company (next month) and take my masters place at uni. But this raises a number of concerns:
-Its an awesome and enjoyable job I would be lucky to get again
-Come next april I'll be earning the fun side of 40K
-I get a new car in september
-I'm ready and in a position to by a house
Going back to uni scrubs all the above, but probably increases the amount of fun I'll have and the things I'll do.
Should I wait another year and go back (I'm only 22), I could use this time to save and buy myself a run-around, find a nice place to live in Brum and get studied up for a specialis area (possibly a PhD).
Man that might just be the longest post I've ever written, basically I'm just to young to be doing the job I'm doing, and way to young to be living the lifestyle attatched to it. Should I go back to uni?
Bit of a dilema with lots of decisions coming up, so here are my rather unorganized thoughts and a bit of background, just get some different takes on my options;On Tuesday I went to a rather nice party for the end of the Birmingham Uni year, this was also the one year anniversary of my own graduation. Most of my friends are still at Uni or living in Birmingham.
About January time I left Birmingham, I thought It would provide me a chance to save for a house, clear my remaining uni debts, collect money from the people who owned it to me (from afar) and get some distance from the place I love for some obscure reason, this was mainly for work reasons. All of the above have been achieved, I'm now totally debt free aside from 3K Remaining Student loan, and the guy who took my old aprtment owes me £1K.
Work! Work for me is mainly in "The City" which is that bit on the outside of that bend in the Thaems which has the big dome on the inside a meander.
From my folks house it takes me about an hour to get to KingsX, so I don't have to be out of bed till 8 as I don't normally have to be on site till 10. So living in Lincolnshire has major advantages. Occasionally I work outside of London, sometimes abroad, there are opportunities in the business to move abroad and I may shortly be doing a stint in Algeria (I enjoy travveling, culture and photography). Work also provides me with Bupa, Life Insurance, an excellent pension scheme, a gym, HP Laptops and PDA's at cost, and a company car, as well as Quarterly parties that are all paid up for me and a partner, overnight stop included, I get on well with all of the staff I have so far met from my own organization.
Uni! The week just gone (party week), I was teaching a graduate course at my old University and during this time I was approached by many of my old lecturers, many of whom I am very close to, my attendance figure for uni was very low 8% at points, but I was always in contact with staff and was in most days talking about my modules and such, I had a couple of issues with dyslexia and ADD which didn't create many problems and the staff were happy with my learning style and my grades. Was also in therapy for big chunks at a time. The general vibe I got from the staff was that I should be doing a masters.
Bits and Bobs, I currently have a rather fit and affluent girlfriend (pharmasist), who also lives near my folks house, she would class our relationship as serious but I am getting less and less interested (We were seeing each other on and off when I was 16 -17, then a big gap till about 10 months ago.) I'm seriously considering binning her but constantly find myself being unable to do so due to an underlying condition she has (theres a long word for it but its something to do with an emotional trauma in her past).
In my final year of uni I got out of therapy for the last time in February and started to socialize and attend uni in a more consistant mannor, up until this point I had no debts other than my Student Loan. Then at a kind of "were glad your all sorted bash" held in my honour in the campus bar came along and I happened to meet this really exceptionally cool girl, who is just about the defintion of a perfect chick, we spent until June shacked up together, until she ended it for a reason not revealed to me (more on this later), now I'm pretty independent and highly social, as is this girl, niether of us are of the jeolos type and can happilly go out sepperately or together and flirt our arses off, rules were unspoken but niether of us took the **** - or wanted to, and it was grand.
Currently
I'm travelling to birmingham regularly to see the above mentioned chick and having a blast, I get to se all my friends, go to lots of gigs and parties, and generally do what I like doing around work, said chick has told me that she loves me and I feel the same way. We parted company before as she was about to emigrate to Argentina with her folks.
I've been offered a masters place with accomodation and all fee's paid for free at my old uni.
I'm going to end it with the current chick within the next 3 weeks.
I may have rights to a patent I produced while at uni, at the time I was scammed and recieved a £1000 cash prize, but no contracts of any paper work were ever produced by me or the uni, said patent would allow 3g access and emergency services radios to work on the tube/stations, company who bought it are a bit shifty.
I produced and prototyped another device at uni, which I may also own the rights to, I'm still learning about this.
My final year project was some Imaging software for Image archiving and identification, it was pretty cool, and apparently the uni would like to do stuff with it that may entitle me to a cut.
What should I do?!
All I want to do right now is Jack my job in when I reach a year with the company (next month) and take my masters place at uni. But this raises a number of concerns:
-Its an awesome and enjoyable job I would be lucky to get again
-Come next april I'll be earning the fun side of 40K
-I get a new car in september
-I'm ready and in a position to by a house
Going back to uni scrubs all the above, but probably increases the amount of fun I'll have and the things I'll do.
Should I wait another year and go back (I'm only 22), I could use this time to save and buy myself a run-around, find a nice place to live in Brum and get studied up for a specialis area (possibly a PhD).
Man that might just be the longest post I've ever written, basically I'm just to young to be doing the job I'm doing, and way to young to be living the lifestyle attatched to it. Should I go back to uni?
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