Well, I have no idea what to do in the future.

2009-04-22 19:45:37

#26

wah1188: You orrible caaaaaaan't; +321|6887|UK

I think FatherTed has probably given the best advice.

Go with him! You're on the right track at least you're thinking about it. Most people just go with the flow me being one of them.

2009-04-23 01:15:53

#27

1927: The oldest chav in the world; +2,423|7100|Cardiff, Capital of Wales

Fin - any chance of doing an apprenticeship at a large company with maybe one or two day release to college.

Our town has Dow Corning in it and this is what they offer to school leavers.

2009-04-23 05:27:58

#28

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6215|Catherine Black

AussieReaper wrote:
Marry Jenny and live off her earnings?

IT is a good job, if you're good at it.

It's Jenni

Thanks for all the replies, got me thinking

2009-04-23 05:31:45

#29

Surgeons: U shud proabbly f off u fat prik; +3,097|6916|Gogledd Cymru

m3thod wrote:
Aries_37 wrote:
Doesn't really matter whatever you decide so just pick what you like honestly. Most degrees are worth nothing nowadays unfortunately. Too many graduates, not enough jobs- which is why even the high flyers are having to do masters and such when they finish. If you're not academic then the best thing to do is make sure you pick up a ton of work experience and a portfolio of references, anything that will fill out your cv and make you distinguishable from the herd.

good luck anyhow
This.

Gotta go to a good university

Gotta do a worthwhile course

Gotta have good work experience

Gotta have good extracurricular activities (make it up if you have to)

Plenty of job in IT it's not all techny nerdy stuff you see in BF2s tech. IT consulting for example: Strategy, Performance, Change, ERP, Security, Enterprise Architecture....christ, the list is endless. It's all propriety methodologies & knowledge you wont find on the interwebz.

Listen to Shabaz's advice.

2009-04-23 05:35:18

#30

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6624|Winland

max wrote:
Finray wrote:
FatherTed wrote:
what are you good at

what do you enjoy
Computers, both hardware and software. For both questions.

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2009-04-23 05:50:04

#31

hawaythelads: We are PREMIER LEAGUE!; +84|6913|Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Finray wrote:
FatherTed wrote:
what are you good at

what do you enjoy
Computers, both hardware and software. For both questions.

Then i would advise you to look for your local Cisco accredited training center.

2009-04-23 06:53:37

#32

AussieReaper: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°); +5,761|6580|what

Finray wrote:
AussieReaper wrote:
Marry Jenny and live off her earnings?

IT is a good job, if you're good at it.
It's Jenni

Thanks for all the replies, got me thinking

Her name is whatever I decide it is.

2009-04-23 06:57:50

#33

..teddy..jimmy: Member; +1,393|7076

ghettoperson wrote:
There's lots of money in gay porn.

This.

Go to uni...a polytech if you have to and get some qualifications if you don't have a proper plan.

If you've got plans you don't really need a degree aslong as you can get the necessary work experience.

2009-04-23 06:59:19

#34

ghettoperson: Member; +1,943|7076

Seriously, you'd be amazed how many jobs you're suddenly qualified for when you suck a few dicks.

2009-04-23 07:22:18

#35

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6897

..teddy..jimmy wrote:
ghettoperson wrote:
There's lots of money in gay porn.
This.

Go to uni...a polytech if you have to and get some qualifications if you don't have a proper plan.

If you've got plans you don't really need a degree aslong as you can get the necessary work experience.

Neverrr go to a Polytechnic; you'll be loaning and spending more money during those 3 years of 'education' (read: dubiosity) than you'll ever renumerate and earn in the rest of your lifetime .

ITT: Max and Freezer having techgeek sniggers at another less-geeky enthusiast. Roffle lmao lollers hehehe! Freezer not everyone is cool enough to merit a place at your uber-geeky computer college, Hell, I'm pretty sure Finray doesn't even meet the monobrow entry-requirements.

_{libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual}. _{http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/}

2009-04-23 07:23:19

#36

bennisboy: Member; +829|7073|Poundland

boooooooooring.

Just see where the tide takes you!

2009-04-23 08:02:39

#37

Ei Em: Member; +7|5916

There's no tomorrow.

Go where wind, wind blows. Follow your nose.

(Who knows, you might end up hobo and find yourself from hobo festival. Pretty cool.)

2009-04-23 08:07:50

#38

The A W S M F O X: I Won't Deny It; +172|6111|SQUID

spontaneously combust

2009-04-23 08:12:38

#39

Pochsy: Artifice of Eternity; +702|5970|Toronto

Get into the easiest subject you can at the hardest university you can and hopefully score high marks. Then get out with your degree and apply to an easier school for an MBA. Hopefully easier school thinks highly of your good marks at a good school in an easy subject and lets you in. to the program. Make six figures with your new MBA (because most businessmen only have a bachelor of commerce). For the plan to work you'll need at least one course in calculus and economics...

The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families

2009-04-23 08:16:57

#40

DrunkFace: Germans did 911; +427|7108|Disaster Free Zone

Biomedical Engineering

2009-04-23 08:18:44

#41

AussieReaper: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°); +5,761|6580|what

The A W S M F O X wrote:
spontaneously combust

If you chose to spontaneously combust, is it still spontaneous?

2009-04-23 08:20:57

#42

Pochsy: Artifice of Eternity; +702|5970|Toronto

AussieReaper wrote:
The A W S M F O X wrote:
spontaneously combust
If you chose to spontaneously combust, is it still spontaneous?

Thanks, you just ruined my day. Now I'm going to go sit on the grass, smoke a hookah, and contemplate the nature of spontaneity.

The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families

2009-04-23 08:28:30

#43

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6897

Pochsy wrote:
Get into the easiest subject you can at the hardest university you can and hopefully score high marks. Then get out with your degree and apply to an easier school for an MBA. Hopefully easier school thinks highly of your good marks at a good school in an easy subject and lets you in. to the program. Make six figures with your new MBA (because most businessmen only have a bachelor of commerce). For the plan to work you'll need at least one course in calculus and economics...

Doesn't really work like that in the UK... we don't entirely base academic qualifications on the Master's Schools.

_{libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual}. _{http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/}

2009-04-23 08:33:36

#44

Pochsy: Artifice of Eternity; +702|5970|Toronto

Uzique wrote:
Doesn't really work like that in the UK... we don't entirely base academic qualifications on the Master's Schools.

Are you still allowed to apply to MA programs in subjects you didn't take in your undergraduate? Even if the MBA won't help as much over there it still offers the most opportunity for the least amount of work. Or at least I would think so.

The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families

2009-04-23 08:37:24

#45

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6897

Pochsy wrote:
Uzique wrote:
Doesn't really work like that in the UK... we don't entirely base academic qualifications on the Master's Schools.
Are you still allowed to apply to MA programs in subjects you didn't take in your undergraduate? Even if the MBA won't help as much over there it still offers the most opportunity for the least amount of work. Or at least I would think so.

Master's Degrees are very much extra intensive bonus studies on the previous undergraduate foundation. In America with Harvard/Yale type establishments it seems to be that the Bachelor's / undergraduate studies are very undervalued and are merely a stepping stone to the Master's accreditation. Whereas in the UK there are tons of graduates with standard BSc/BA type degrees, the Master's Degree is still viewed as an extra qualification for even better distinction- as opposed to the USA's Ivy-League schools where I understand it has sort of become the 'standard' qualification to have.

_{libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual}. _{http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/}

2009-04-23 08:37:40

#46

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|7008|SE London

Uzique wrote:
Pochsy wrote:
Get into the easiest subject you can at the hardest university you can and hopefully score high marks. Then get out with your degree and apply to an easier school for an MBA. Hopefully easier school thinks highly of your good marks at a good school in an easy subject and lets you in. to the program. Make six figures with your new MBA (because most businessmen only have a bachelor of commerce). For the plan to work you'll need at least one course in calculus and economics...
Doesn't really work like that in the UK... we don't entirely base academic qualifications on the Master's Schools.

If he's looking for a career in IT, it certainly doesn't work like that in the UK. At all.

There are a few good ways to get on in IT.

1. Get good grades, go to a good university, get a 1st or better, get a placement on a top end graduate scheme with a big company.

2. Get a basic, uber low paying IT job, then another, then another - build different skills throughout, helpdesk, hardware repairs etc. you want to diversify your skillset. Build up your experience using various technologies, preferably ones that are widespread. Learn Active Directory and Exchange inside and out. Get a few certifications.

2009-04-23 08:38:16

#47

1.5 sucks: Banned; +11|5911|locked in myke's basement

Pochsy wrote:
Uzique wrote:
Doesn't really work like that in the UK... we don't entirely base academic qualifications on the Master's Schools.
Are you still allowed to apply to MA programs in subjects you didn't take in your undergraduate? Even if the MBA won't help as much over there it still offers the most opportunity for the least amount of work. Or at least I would think so.

If you take a degree in media studies for your BA at Lincoln University and achieve a first, and then subsequently apply for an MA in Classics at Oxford, you are unlikely to be successful.

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2009-04-23 08:40:59

#48

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6897

They won't even consider your application, you'll be laughed at, 'Media Studies' is a soft-subject in the first place and has no merit .

But yes, your point stands.

_{libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual}. _{http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/}

2009-04-23 08:43:08

#49

1.5 sucks: Banned; +11|5911|locked in myke's basement

Uzique wrote:
They won't even consider your application, you'll be laughed at, 'Media Studies' is a soft-subject in the first place and has no merit .

that was the point i was making bro

2009-04-23 08:45:28

#50

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|7008|SE London

1.5 sucks wrote:
Pochsy wrote:
Uzique wrote:
Doesn't really work like that in the UK... we don't entirely base academic qualifications on the Master's Schools.
Are you still allowed to apply to MA programs in subjects you didn't take in your undergraduate? Even if the MBA won't help as much over there it still offers the most opportunity for the least amount of work. Or at least I would think so.
If you take a degree in media studies for your BA at Lincoln University and achieve a first, and then subsequently apply for an MA in Classics at Oxford, you are unlikely to be successful.

But if you read English at UCL and got a 1st, then applied to read Classics at Oxford, you'd be in with a good shot.

You can switch courses but you're unlikely to be successful if there is not a link between the two courses.

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