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# i need a job so badly at uni
the bash is going to wipe me clean out for money :s

thing is, i'm from a comfortable middleclass family and i was privately educated, it really pisses me off when i meet people who've had the same luck that i have and who go on about it being 'a bloody shame that we've had so many benefits when no one else has isn't it?'. actually fucking no, we were very lucky and some people aren't, if there's a petition going round to equalize society i'll sign it but i'm not going to feel embaressed about my upbringing because student culture says so.

/rant over
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:51, archived)
# I'll buy you some drinks.
Don't feel bad for having it easier than some, just recognise that you're lucky (which it appers you do). I went to a school populated by people who were much posher than I am, and whose families all had much more money- it really made no difference when it came to sheer nouse.

Maybe I didn't get what you said. I don't know. Shut up, Fae.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:55, archived)
# thats my point
my housemate is from walton in liverpool. poorest family ever, we took his mum out for drinks when she got a pay raise to £16,000. of her three sons one is a doctor of robotics from Oxford, the next served time in prison but now earns £80,000 a year running his own business and my mate is a very talented japanese student. where you're from means shit in the end.
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:58, archived)
# Yup
although when it's a choice of going to university or going out and getting a job to help pay your parent's mortgage it kind of fucks everything up a bit.

Ah well. A pirate's life for me.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:59, archived)
# well yeah but you've not done badly have you?
whereas i'll still be unemployable after 4 years a uni :)

and a pirate's life isn't bad all told :)
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Wed 21 May 2008, 14:03, archived)
# Ohhh I couldn't give a shit.
I'm slowly realising, due to managing graduates, that people with degrees are generally still thicker than I am.

I'd love to have gone for the experience, it seems people's endless 'reminisce about unifuckingversity' conversations go on for hours and hours and hours but apart from pissing money I haven't got up the wall I don't really see what else I've missed. I'll go back one day, but not now.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Wed 21 May 2008, 14:07, archived)
# Well, there is always the
vast array of interesting drugs to try and people to sleep with.

I went back as a mature (ha!) student, because I *actually* wanted to do the course.
I'm really glad I did.
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 21 May 2008, 14:10, archived)
# I will do
eventually. Probably. If I find myself at a loss for something to do. I don't know, I feel the urge but I'm far too busy getting on with things. I'm only 23, I've got AGES yet.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Wed 21 May 2008, 14:11, archived)
# Precisely!
I went 'back' when I was 25, it's the best time to do it.
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 21 May 2008, 14:14, archived)
# 26 when I went
for the first time and for no other reason than I was interested in the course for a 'hobby'
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Wed 21 May 2008, 14:23, archived)
# *ginormous hugs*
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 21 May 2008, 14:05, archived)
# It's all good, fella.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Wed 21 May 2008, 14:08, archived)
# I'm from Salford.
It's not exactly Chelsea. My father did not have a good start. His mother was Danish immigrant who came with nothing.
When I left school at 17 to join the forces my father had a multi million pound steel fabricators and shipping engineers. He gave me 3 grand to get a start and I promptly set up a small works building firm and employed people as sub-contractors to complete jobs I tendered for and I still joined the army and managed both. I've done a lot since then and I'll be spending another £60k on a car next year, but the moral is that it does not matter where you are from you will get out of life no more than the effort you put into it.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Wed 21 May 2008, 14:03, archived)
# yet another man who proves my point
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Wed 21 May 2008, 14:14, archived)
# precisely.
Although signing petitions to equalise society, and trying to equalise society is utterly futile.

You might as well piss in a drain and hope that it hydrates Africa.
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:55, archived)
# I don't mind if we equalise society.
But only on the premise that we lop off the shite at the bottom rather than give them my shiny things.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:57, archived)
# haha
I would also support concentration camps for the underclass.
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:58, archived)
# haha ^this hard
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Wed 21 May 2008, 14:04, archived)
# oh yeah thats my point
i'll make a futile gesture but no more
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Wed 21 May 2008, 14:05, archived)