GCSE Results Day.....

Papa Bendi wrote:

FrogChorus wrote:

Never, ever take A Level ICT - pile of shit

hehehe-i gave that up after one week I made the mistake of not picking the subject i'm best at ie. history. Instead i followed my mates into biology and regretted it since. On the other hand, i've still got a year to make up for it

Yeah, History is the way. I'm doin a degree in it now - did quite good at A Level like

FrogChorus wrote:

Papa Bendi wrote:

FrogChorus wrote:

Never, ever take A Level ICT - pile of shit

hehehe-i gave that up after one week I made the mistake of not picking the subject i'm best at ie. history. Instead i followed my mates into biology and regretted it since. On the other hand, i've still got a year to make up for it

Yeah, History is the way. I'm doin a degree in it now - did quite good at A Level like

You will be good at getting DATES then!

And before you lot START i got an O LEVEL in DUSTING!

FrogChorus wrote:

Papa Bendi wrote:

FrogChorus wrote:

Never, ever take A Level ICT - pile of shit

hehehe-i gave that up after one week I made the mistake of not picking the subject i'm best at ie. history. Instead i followed my mates into biology and regretted it since. On the other hand, i've still got a year to make up for it

Yeah, History is the way. I'm doin a degree in it now - did quite good at A Level like

Beware history degrees. Useful for fuck all. You end up like I did, a teacher who can't stand the system, turning to IT project management instead!

oldmonkey wrote:

FrogChorus wrote:

Papa Bendi wrote:

FrogChorus wrote:

Never, ever take A Level ICT - pile of shit

hehehe-i gave that up after one week I made the mistake of not picking the subject i'm best at ie. history. Instead i followed my mates into biology and regretted it since. On the other hand, i've still got a year to make up for it

Yeah, History is the way. I'm doin a degree in it now - did quite good at A Level like

Beware history degrees. Useful for fuck all. You end up like I did, a teacher who can't stand the system, turning to IT project management instead!

:dead: sshhhhhhhhh. Parents are teachers - fuck that

oldmonkey wrote:

FrogChorus wrote:

Papa Bendi wrote:

FrogChorus wrote:

Never, ever take A Level ICT - pile of shit

hehehe-i gave that up after one week I made the mistake of not picking the subject i'm best at ie. history. Instead i followed my mates into biology and regretted it since. On the other hand, i've still got a year to make up for it

Yeah, History is the way. I'm doin a degree in it now - did quite good at A Level like

Beware history degrees. Useful for fuck all. You end up like I did, a teacher who can't stand the system, turning to IT project management instead!

Degrees are not supposed to be a gaurenteed way to get a job...

study what you love

history is useful in a lot of different ways... there's a lot of "out of the book" learning that humanities, social sciences, and liberal arts give you that other hard sciences don't

if you studied biology and hated it.. you'd be fucked out of luck now

Kind words! Nice to hear after my future had been shot down in a blaze

[brown]Ally[/brown] wrote:

C-Ro wrote: study what you love

Such naivety, aw how cute. I must be one of those kerazy nuts that went to uni to improve my employment prospects :D

Most students couldn't afford to do what they love at Uni for 4 whole years; it's far from financially viable. Even if they got a part time job while studying they'll still be swamped in debt at the end of it all. On top of that to find your degree is about as useful as a dildo in a nunnery for getting work is not the best news. Any personal satisfaction from pursuing "what you love" will soon evaporate when yer flipping burgers in the local Wimpy to pay the rent while your BA in History Of Art languishes silently on the mantelpiece.

The people who do "what they love" at Uni usually have pots of money behind them and are sorted for a job in daddy's company afterwards anyway, so they don't count i.e. Fuck em.

My degree is not sexy and purely vocational but it's done what I wanted it to do; got me a job (eventually) :D

Get where you are coming from........however, I was never in a position to have the opportunity to go to Uni; and I regret it to this day. I left college and ended up doing what I didnt love........cos I needed the money; simple as that. Uni was definitely not an option. Probably, if I had gone further and pursued my desired occupation, I would have been crap at it anyway!

However, I am a great believer in getting a good education - all round sort of stuff......my Daughter has never been taught (?) what a NI number is for, how to write a cheque, how much it costs to post a package (don't ask!), you know, simple everyday sort of stuff........and it's made me wonder......did I never tell her this stuff? She's got great grades, but she doesn't know that? Either I am a bad Mum, or the system is shite, or both? Regardless, we must have taught her something, cos she sure as hell doesnt want to work with us!

Anyway, doing what I love now......so Also, pulling a fast one to a degree!

Read it and weep.