The Situation

2008-02-04 12:34:46

#1

White-Fusion: Fuck; +616|7036|Scotland

Sorta long read ahead

I worked in a BT call centre for 7 months. Full time, £6:40 an hour. Amazing money for a 16 year old. Bought a new top of the range gaming rig after using a rig with a Nvidia 5500 FX thing. So I spent too much time playing it and not enough time going to work, and got fired.

No one to blame but myself.

Spent 3 months or so hardcore gaming. Then decided to try for a job again.

Started a course 3 months ago. I have to get up at 6am, walk 2 and a half miles in the rain/snow/wind/dark along a motorway. Then get a 2 hour bus ride with no music as MP3 player is broken. For £10 a day.

It's a government scheme thing that trys to get me a job. They put me in HMV... and as I was on the course I got put in the stock room, as they weren't paying me, they saw me as cheap labour. I wasn't even allowed any damn music... in HMV of all places. Meanwhile 3 people straight outta school with no work experience and a shit attitude got to work out on the shop floor and the tills.

Walked out after 2 days as it was obvious I wasn't going to get a job at the end.

I then realised the point of HMV was to get a good reference as BT will obviously tell other employers I got fired for bad time keeping.

I am sick to death of getting up so early. I was not designed to get up at 6am. I can officially say I was not meant to get up at that time. It takes something special for me to pull myself out of my comfy bed with 2 duvets into my bedroom with single glazed windows and no heating in winter.

As a result of this I have not been attending the course much and I am on a very short line of getting kicked off. Basically I'm off again I'm gone.

What would you do in this situation?

Give it up and game for a while, have some fun with friends and girlfriends and not care?

Keep trying for a job?

Go to college?

2008-02-04 12:42:52

#2

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,993|7117|949

Prioritize:

Do your parents give you any money?
Are you old enough/have you completed secondary education?

Don't think that you are entitled to anything - and realize most likely you will have to work your ass off to get anywhere in life.

2008-02-04 12:45:09

#3

White-Fusion: Fuck; +616|7036|Scotland

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
Prioritize:

Do your parents give you any money?
Are you old enough/have you completed secondary education?

Don't think that you are entitled to anything - and realize most likely you will have to work your ass off to get anywhere in life.

I'm 17 so don't get a penny unless I'm in college etc.

Live with my granny who cant afford to give me money, but she can look after me.

2008-02-04 12:47:05

#4

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|7106|London, England

Do your A levels. Go to a uni. You'll get tons of money from your student loan, it's a good experience. Also, you'll have more than enough time for a job. No need to make things complicated. Just do what the majority of people do.

2008-02-04 12:47:57

#5

Microwave: _; +515|7140|Loughborough Uni / Leeds, UK

Collage. Definately.

Or an apprenticeship.

2008-02-04 12:49:52

#6

HudsonFalcon: Member; +20|6416|New York

I would definitely give a try at college my friend. You have to realize though, getting up at 6 a.m. to go to work is a fact of life but college will give you the skills to find a job you actually like. Trust me, getting up that early to go to a job you like is a hell of a lot easier than getting up and going to a job you hate.

2008-02-04 12:59:47

#7

White-Fusion: Fuck; +616|7036|Scotland

HudsonFalcon wrote:
I would definitely give a try at college my friend. You have to realize though, getting up at 6 a.m. to go to work is a fact of life but college will give you the skills to find a job you actually like. Trust me, getting up that early to go to a job you like is a hell of a lot easier than getting up and going to a job you hate.

Yeah this is what alot of people tell me. And it is what I'm going to do. I live in the north north north of Scotland so there is a tiny college and a medium college. And between them there is 2 computer courses I can do. One I might not get into and the other might not benefit me as my bad reference from BT.

2008-02-04 13:05:02

#8

Criminal: yo shut the fuck up charles; +20|7122

smoke big blunts and fuck bad bitches bro

2008-02-04 13:07:09

#9

White-Fusion: Fuck; +616|7036|Scotland

Criminal wrote:
smoke big blunts and fuck bad bitches bro

Every weekend man, every weekend.

(Except it's the bad girlfriend not bad bitches)

2008-02-04 13:13:01

#10

I'm Jamesey: Do a Research Noob; +506|6617|Scotland!

I was in a similar situation, I decided to go out and have fun, I'm now poor, 21 and in a college course full of 17 year olds.

2008-02-04 13:14:12

#11

White-Fusion: Fuck; +616|7036|Scotland

I'm Jamesey wrote:
I was in a similar situation, I decided to go out and have fun, I'm now poor, 21 and in a college course full of 17 year olds.

Advice?

Go to college early?

100%?

2008-02-04 13:32:50

#12

mtb0minime: minimember; +2,418|7139

Go to college. At least with an education you'll be more valuable than someone straight out of high school. That's why you got the shitty jobs Don't worry if your friends have jobs and are making money, at least you'll be getting a higher education, which will be worth more in the long run.

This happens to a lot of people. They get offered a job right out of high school that seems decent and pays well (compared to what they've seen before), and they naively take the job. 5, 10, 20 years later, they're stuck in the same job making what they now realize is shit pay. The people who go to college, they bide their time in classes, pay out the ass for it, but at the end of it all, get a great job doing something they love and for wonderful pay.

2008-02-04 13:36:55

#13

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|7052|NYC / Hamburg

Nothing beats as much education as possible as early as possible. I started uni with 15 1/2, nearly finished now. I make 1500CHF/month (~1400$, ~700£) for "working" (more like sitting around and talking) 8h a week for doing legal work for a small wealth management company.

_{once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404.}

2008-02-04 13:42:13

#14

mtb0minime: minimember; +2,418|7139

Also, getting an educations gives you the opportunity to get promoted and work your way up through the ranks.

Currently I'm on my way to a Bachelor's (hope to have it by the end of '09), and I'll be making ~$50-60k a year, and that's just starting. I could eventually work my way up to probably a little over $100k, but if I go for a Master's and really work hard in whatever company I work for, I could even get upwards of $200k (being like a CEO of a small company, or some other high-ranking position in a bigger company).

So if money's where it's at, then education is the way to go.

But if money's not where it's at.... still go to college! You get to learn more about stuff you love. One of my professors was saying that not only is a Master's degree becoming the new standard, you should get one if you want to have an interesting job. The higher the education you have, the more interesting, fun, and new stuff you get to do and experiment with.

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