Shall i go to uni?

you'll spend 3 years engaged in a pointless endeavor and emerge wirth a worthless degree with meagre real world experience.

Yes, I work at a uni, higher education has become just another comodity. Turn up, pay for your 2:2 and head out unprepared and underskilled into the workplace.
 
Padders said:
you'll spend 3 years engaged in a pointless endeavor and emerge wirth a worthless degree with meagre real world experience.

Yes, I work at a uni,
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Do you have a degree, though, or have you just developed bitterness over time spent around others who have?

higher education has become just another comodity. Turn up, pay for your 2:2 and head out unprepared and underskilled into the workplace.
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Whereas when you get a job with no degree and no experience you are... also underprepared and underskilled. And if you do some work you wont get a 2:2.
 
Memphis said:
You are so unbelievably deluded it's almost sad, but hey, all the best to you.
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How so?
Because I'm realistic, lets be honest right.

You come out of school with your gcses.
Whats open to you.

Military.
Apprenticeship.
Further education.
Dead end mcjob.
Unemployment.
Self employment.

Theres not very many options is there, lets be honest, you name some others that aren't rare as hell.

Years ago it was different admittedly, but nowadays they want you to have some form of higher education to get anywhere, Else you're getting experience in an unskilled field and that means **** all to anyone but the next unskilled field.
 
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[TW]Fox;15292386 said:
Do you have a degree, though, or have you just developed bitterness over time spent around others who have?



Whereas when you get a job with no degree and no experience you are... also underprepared and underskilled. And if you do some work you wont get a 2:2.
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Quite a leap you made there; I have a degree and am very well paid for what I do. I've witnessed the steady decline over the last 10 years of the standard of students admitted, and the increasing sense of 'entitlement' to a degree for doing little more than turn up for the odd lecture.
 
If you can afford it, then you might as well go.

I didn't got as I was fed up with the education system by 17, but sometimes I think I should have held on a bit longer. Even if you just go for the social side, it's probably worthwhile.

I ended up doing some basic production work for a year or so and then ended up on a training scheme with a construction consultancy. They put me through college so at least I have some extra qualifications now but the last few years socially have been incredibly boring.

So much so that I've now quit and moved to Bristol with some old friends. Now unemployed but at least I'm enjoying myself.

I think my problem was that I was so worried about not knowing what to do with my life that I ended up disillusioned with the whole system. But after speaking to older colleagues I found most of them had no idea what they wanted to do with their lives either but things worked out in the end. (No guarantees though :p )
 
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Unless you have clear direction on your career path or you do a degree that is actually hard and worth it. Don't bother going.

No point going to do english with film studies or something like that
 
Padders said:
I've witnessed the steady decline over the last 10 years of the standard of students admitted, and the increasing sense of 'entitlement' to a degree for doing little more than turn up for the odd lecture.
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Surely that depends on which university you're looking at? (or in your case, working at).
 
Go, if you dont know a particular area just do something like a 'business' course. Loads of my mates did this. Yes, you might end up owing £20k+ but its a great life and you will build up loads of mates (if you are a reasonably normal person)

I wide course like business or computing, or like i did 'business computing' opens up loads of areas for you to work in
 
I have no regrets about going to Uni.

It changed me from being a sad, boring, tedious reclusive geek into a sad, half boring, non reclusive geek with actual friends, and a girlfriend, and a job.

Hurrah for Uni!
 
Definately don't go to uni if you plan to do a rubbish degree with awful job prospects. Sure you could go for the "lifestyle" but you'd only waste 3/4 years of your life getting into massive debt and having a certificate which isn't worth much more than loo roll. I recently started uni after working for a few years and most students I've met truly don't give a **** about their final grade, they are just there for the life experience lol.

Coincidently, my degree is pretty hard but it rewards me with a 100% chance to get a job at the end of it. That statistic wasn't pulled out of my rear end either as there is a shortage of peopld doing my course who want to work for the NHS or go into private healthcare.

Going to uni isn't a simple choice of "oh well I've got nothing else better to do so I might as well", it's meant to propel you into a worthwhile career, which sadly is a sentiment lost on the majority.
 
Depends what you want to do with your life/career. If you can't pick a course that is relevant, then it depends if you want to have a good time socially for 3/4 years at the expense of thousands of pounds worth of debt when you come out the other side and a degree that was not really worth it for your career.
I think uni is becoming less of a worth wile thing these days, but now's a horrid time to be job hunting so it might be worth studying for a few years.
 
Padders said:
you'll spend 3 years engaged in a pointless endeavor and emerge wirth a worthless degree with meagre real world experience.

Yes, I work at a uni, higher education has become just another comodity. Turn up, pay for your 2:2 and head out unprepared and underskilled into the workplace.
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What rubbish.
 
bledd. said:
Go to uni, even if it's just for the 'life experience' :)
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Costs far to much these days and you will be giving a large part of your paycheck away just as you are trying to get big bills.

If you are being lazy at sixthform and don't know what to do. I would not go. You can always go to uni when you do decide.

Also look at apprenticeships or sponsored HND/Degrees as an alternative. As these will lead to a job at the end of it.
 
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