Yea Forumsros is university the only way? UK

Yea Forumsros is university the only way? UK

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absolutely not. get yourself a retail job and save your money up.
university is a waste of money and it comes with no greater chance of employment.
literally none of my uni friends use their degrees, we're in our thirties now.

Uni is literally only good if you're going into STEM/Medical. College is way more useful.

you will live paycheck to paycheck with a retail job. Some of my friends just graduated, I'm two years behind, and one of them is working for a major bank and the other is starting with a managemant consultancy firm. Non-graduate jobs almost entirely pay minimum wage. If you've got the option op, you should go. Pick a course that actually interests you - you need passion to do well in it. In my experience, the reputation of the university is the most important factor, second being degree grade (as long as you get a 2.1 you're fine), and third being subject (assuming you are not looking for STEM work, in which case reverse the order).

If you want to do a liberal arts degree rather than STEM, its really important you go to a uni with a good reputation, preferably russell group. Otherwise, I suggest looking into vocational degrees such as STEM. Happy to answer more questions, I'm in my 3rd year at edinburgh university

A retail job will just have me stuck in retail wont it?

Not worth it. Get into a trade or specialised labour work like HGV driving. Project management qualifications or some shit like that. Fuck University

If i go university im 100℅ either doing maths or possibly engineering. However i just dont want to do more school. I just want to move out and get a job without sacrifcing my future career. It's the only reason i ask. Thanks for the advise i'll take it into account when applying.

Kinda, be prepared to do a lot of study/ learning shit by yourself.

It's ez to cheese a 1st as a fair few universities calculate your final grade by taking only your final year minus a module... Ez win

Asides from that having a student loan really isn't that big of a deal since you need to be earning >22k a year (off the top of my head) and it's scrapped after 30 years.

Do you have experience in it yourself? Where can i find out more?

i worked retail for 5 years, now i pull in £40k.
you only get stuck in retail if you're idle.

Hey man, I'm starting uni in a couple weeks. I took a gap year just to work and build up some savings. I worked jobs here and there. some independent stores and Primark. If you can just go straight to Uni, you don't want to spend your life doing the most boring repetitive jobs and having to interact with boring people.

the only way where?

To a decent paying job.

1st class LLB graduate (law). Ask me anything

not the only way

>HGV driving
oh yes get into a job thats literally a decade or two from being automated.

I did a four year engineering apprenticeship and now take home 50k, with as much overtime as I want. I hit the jackpot with my company but my mates who went to uni are unemployed and one works in greggs

Did you rnjoy studying for it?

I was gonna say that. Wont trade jobs be easily automated in the future.

How do i do this?

Completely depends on a lot of factors. Things like electricians and plumbing and HVAC, probably wont ever be automated.
But simple tasks like retail and driving will surely be much more automated in the near future.

Look online for apprenticeship jobs, bt, British gas, Bentley, Toyota, s p energy.... 100's out there just got to look and be patient

Ok. Any tips for getting the apprenticeship thats not common knowledge? Also i can get the job with maths and physics a levels right?

I took a hard 2 year course at a private uni (accelerated degree). I was set on getting a first because I was told that firms would throw out my application (Magic Circle/US firms). It was hell sometimes, sometimes I had to stay up 30 hours studying. It was hell. But once I got it, I pushed passed it, the euphoria was amazing.

Hope so starting in 4 weeks after wasting 2 years of my life (20 now), just hope I've made the right decision, even if I havn't at least i can get shit faced and not worry about the next 4 years

Damn, thats hardcore. Did you get what you expected in the end, i mean life wise are you happy?

Just don't go through agency's, I had a level 4 apprenticeship set up and 2 weeks before I was due to start they called me telling me they can't afford me due to buying out a part of another company ngl kinda fucked my life up for a few months

I not really about the shitfaced life, what you studying?

Comp science, I fucked up school pretty hard and wasted college getting high and fucking my ex, have to do an extra year to make up for it, just gives me an extra year with an idea for what I need to do though

If you dont mind me asking how old are you and are apprenticeahips really competitve to get into?

I am also Im 20, I spent the best part of a year and a half looking for an apprenticeship rather than going to uni, shits rough bud. I though I was set then all that happened

I did it, been working as a software dev for 5 years now, honestly it's not that important, a good apprenticeship would be fine, if you can get one that will pay for you to get a degree part time even better

I do computer science a level and a fucking hate programming everything else is pretty good though. Hope you enjoy programming.

Right now, I'll be 21 once I graduate with my Masters and the LPC (a course you have to do if you want to be a solicitor in England and Wales). Graduating in 2 months. After that I'll be in search for training contracts at my dream firm. In short I can't say yet, I haven't started applying.

Echo this

Started with weekend work at a well know catalogue shop. Now run an operation of 60+ vans, 140+ staff and a 24 hour operation moving circa £156k of stock a day

Put in the effort, get the reward.

Yours sincerely, Mr 2:1 degree holder

I enjoyed programming at college, tutors were just useless cunts, I think it'll be fun the uni im going too isn't known for its comp science but the grounds for the uni are beautiful

Gl with uni, finding an appreticeship sounded hard, what were you looking for?

Anything IT related, the one I was meant to start was IT support/engineering for a small company kinda local to me with 19k a year start and goes up potentially 3-4k every year, I think it was 3 years in total with a job after.

Sounded good, why'd it take a year and a half tho?

Go to trade school or study something that will pay well Econ/STEM/business/finance/law. Also go to the cheapest university possible, unless it’s for a top tier university like Oxford, the extra cost isn’t worth it. If you’re really passionate about something go study or work on that though, don’t waste your time hating the next years of your life

wasn't just that, that took a year and a half, was applying for ones a long time before I even found that one. The one I mentioned before was around march/april this year and was the only one I heard back from. The market for apprenticeships is flooded tbh and the jobs/pay are terrible, that one got was a dream job for me and didn't look 2 difficult.

An apprenticeship and a trade would be better.. I know smart people, go to uni... work in retail, and can't find anything good.. Live in shitty rental, they can barely afford on 2 persons wages.

their brother, became a plumber, bought a house at 23, paid off in full at 27...still single.

The apprenticeship idea isn't sounding too good anymore.

No way, cant be true. Plumber and house paid off at 27? Does he own his own plumbing business or something?

You don't know if you don't try, it depends on how much time you have, if you're not planning on going to uni this year get a part time job and start applying for apprenticeships while working or if you're still in 6form/college start applying before you finish like 3-4 months before, just make a basic CV with ur predicted grades, if not call the uni's and find out what they offer, I honestly didn't think I'd get into the uni im going to (top 50) i don't even have my maths gcse lmao

Apprenticeships are good when you work for the right company... it's as simple as that. But if you work for a shit company for 2-4 years with shit pay you still still come out the other end with qualifications

Thats mad, going top 50 with no maths gcse

>get yourself a retail job and save your money up
Lol, yeah don't do this. This guy is probably a nigger who couldn't hack it in Uni. That English Comp and "College" Algebra was too much for him to handle.

I mean I don't have that and got way under the entry requirements, but i had some health issues related to my appendix on my final year of college, told them about that and some other stuff and they've been nothing but helpful and supportive, if I'd have thought I could have gone to this Uni (my first choice from 2 years ago) i would have done it last year and not wasted almost 2 years looking for some shitty apprenticeship

Its 1:30 and i need to sleep but thanks everyone for the help