I wish I learned a trade
Instead of going to Uni. Not entirely sure if I could've hacked it but my mates that did that are currently about twice as well off as the Uni go-ers.

Mind you once the local power plant shuts down in the next decade I think there may be an overwhelming surplus of sparkies flooding the job centre.

Saying that, if I were on more money now and in a less stressful job I wouldn't regret a thing. Time for a job change methinks.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 20 May 2010, 13:36, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Funny, sometimes I wish I'd gone to Uni
I got an apprenticeship at 16 instead of going back to do the A-levels I'd signed up for (Maths, Further Maths and Physics). I've been knocking about working in my profession for 25 years and make a decent living, but I often wonder if I wouldn't have been happier studying Astrophysics and being a poorly paid scientist, but pursuing something I loved, rather than doing a job that I hate that pays the bills and lets me go on the occasional nice holiday.
(lardyboy Next stop, Fissplap Central, Thu 20 May 2010, 13:53, Reply)

Maybe I'm being greedy
the guys I went to school with who weren't particularly scholarly and didn't go away to Uni simply got their trade and now at 25 earn something in the region of 25k+ sometimes even around the 40k mark working offshore. I also know for a fact that most of them don't even work particularly hard!

I appreciate that perhaps down the line I will possibly have better options but right now it doesn't feel that way. I think getting a job in business was a pretty terrible decision. They say that violent psychopaths go to prison and the non-violent psychopaths become managers and MDs. Can't say I disagree.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 20 May 2010, 14:31, Reply)

I didn't go to uni but a lot of my friends did
and I'm earning more than most of them. Obviously some of them, who were ridiculously clever, went on to things like astronuclear engineering or whatever and they're earning dickloads, but the rest are just doing admin jobs in work that is kind of related to their field but not really. And not many of them are happy doing it. I think it's a bit unfair of the government and schools to advertise uni as this failsafe gateway to brilliant careers when the more people they try and stuff into universities, the lower the standards get and the less jobs there are for graduates when they come out. And because of the demand for jobs, employers are now demanding graduates for really low paid jobs.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 20 May 2010, 14:44, Reply)