Marketing (BA) Hons
Thought I'd throw my two pence in here.

I've got a Degree in Marketing and had a hard time finding jobs in Scottish cities considering they all asked for at least a years experience. Vicious circle etc..

Luckily a job turned up on my doorstep. Unluckily people above me on the payscale are mostly complete cunts. As in I get paid to ruin your life kind of cunt and I have absolutely no level of human compassion kind of cunt. And theres nothing you can do about it as you're merely a graduate - kind of cunt.
And a I know contractually you finish at 1730 but if you really want to make something of yourself you should be working every night past 8pm just like I do - kind of cunt.

As someone has mentioned - no amount of money is enough for too much stress.


Of my mates in High School, we were seperated into 2 brackets - Tradesmen and Students. All the tradesmen I know in the 5 years since High School, despite most of the time being severely academically lower than the students, have now gone onto trade apprenticeships and eventually 30k a year jobs.

They have mortgages, are onto their 3rd or 4th car, go on holidays, wear flash clothes, have the latest phones, flatscreen TV's, computers etc etc.

Of the students some have dropped out (one stacks shelves in Tescos, ones in a minimum wage call-centre), some are still there after repeating years / semi-dropping out, and some (like me) have gone onto low paying high stress jobs (although admittedly future prospects are quite good).

At the moment it looks like I'll never equal the lofty heights of these superstar tradesmen and their many many moneys and I'm sick of getting shat on from above.

I recommend to high school leavers - get a trade ffs, become an electrician or plumber or something.

Mind you my student years were filled with constant partying, eating crap and having a laugh.
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