So...I've been accepted into University and....

The Funktopus said:
I think those figures are based around off-shore, ferry type vessels, and not deep sea. Deep sea, the wages are a fair bit higher for example. I've been talking to a guy sitting his chief's exams, and his employer, BP, have given him a letter offering him a chief's post aboard a supertanker on £125,000 p/a based on him passing his exams and getting his chief's ticket. :eek:
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Holy crap. :eek:

Merchant navy now sounds kind of awesome. :D
 
DefiantAsh said:
Creative Digital Media :)

I can branch off to do a various degree of modules;
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Sorry gonna sound like a **** here.

That's a waste of a degree. I am wading through CVs at the moment for a couple of jobs here and people with those qualifications go in the bin.... it seems to be suddenly very popular. Or we are at the end of the 4 years after it was first introduced as the latest bum fluff course.

Edit: I should also point out, people with those degrees seem to all have low pay, low level support jobs as their experience. </sweeping statement>
 
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Nitefly said:
But you are also doing a PhD..... :p
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Nope, see my above post :p

Dave said:
Ah, you're an Oxford chap then! My PhD is industry-funded as a faculty position, but I have to pay tax & student loans on top of it. What's your DPhil in?
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Sad times having to pay tax. Mine is a BBSRC CASE studentship, so 13.5k from BBSRC with a 2.5k top-up from industry (in my case a company called Evotec). It will (starting October) be in computational biochemistry, more specifically looking at g-protein coupled receptors. It'll be a new experience moving unis (Bristol to Oxford) and departments (chemistry to biochemistry) so I'm pretty excited.

I see you are a chemical engineer, what's your PhD on? Did you do your undergrad in Cambridge?
 
I get £384 bursary at Salford Uni, they must be poor it's the crappiest bursary ever, but I can't really grumble at it as it is free money.. in a way..
 
By the way here is a pro tip, get a vpn ( preferably run open vpn on your home connection as they won't know if it's a vpn or not). I think most universities only allow port 80 and port 443, but it will add additional latency and slow it down to your home upload speed.
 
chaosdestro0 said:
By the way here is a pro tip, get a vpn ( preferably run open vpn on your home connection as they won't know if it's a vpn or not). I think most universities only allow port 80 and port 443, but it will add additional latency and slow it down to your home upload speed.
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What? Why would you decide that he needs a vpn?
 
Disco Boy said:
Sad times having to pay tax. Mine is a BBSRC CASE studentship, so 13.5k from BBSRC with a 2.5k top-up from industry (in my case a company called Evotec). It will (starting October) be in computational biochemistry, more specifically looking at g-protein coupled receptors. It'll be a new experience moving unis (Bristol to Oxford) and departments (chemistry to biochemistry) so I'm pretty excited.

I see you are a chemical engineer, what's your PhD on? Did you do your undergrad in Cambridge?
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Aha, another computationalist! My area of research is computational fluid dynamics. I've got a strange funding setup with 15k from EPSRC topped up by 8.5k from industry, but employed as staff and thus tax/SLC get their (far too large a) slice so the end result is about the same as a standard EPSCR stipend.

I was in the same boat as you when I started last year - I graduated with my Chem Eng degree from Sheffield before moving down here. Stayed in the same department though, changing unis and departments would have been too much for me :p College system makes a nice change though, as does all the free wine!
 
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