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Metallurgy (a subject my mate had to look up in a dictionary).
Isn't that what early noughties mercs suffered from ?
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Metallurgy (a subject my mate had to look up in a dictionary).
We she announced what she was studying my mate told everyone she was going to be the next BBC weather presenter.Isn't that what early noughties mercs suffered from ?
Amen, but sounds more like the 70's than the 20'sSame as it’s ever been then.
Oops, didn't finish the above.So, I went to a fairly good grammar school back in the early 70's. By O level time I didn't really know what I wanted to do so parents paid for some aptitude tests. From that it was decided I wanted to be a quantity surveyor & the route to that was through the local civic college. I then needed an additional year at school as I needed a "science" O level which I had failed.
School was hopeless with careers advice as it was assumed that pupils would move onto A levels then top universities.
I enrolled onto a full time OND course followed by a full time HND course.
I found that others had taken ONC & HNC courses part time sponsored by employers & they were earning wages & gaining experience.
However, through family contacts I landed a job.
Throughout my career I have been held back by others & have failed to take charge of my own destination.
Number 1 son was encouraged by school in the mid/late 20's that he must go to university even though, like me, he had no career in mind at that age. His school results were not good, like mine, were always " must try harder". He left uni with a scraped chemistry degree, a desire never having anything to do with chemistry in the future, but he had a good time accumulating his student debt.
He fell on his feet answering a job application we put in front of him and is now a successful hearing aid specialist. No doubt the uni "education" (piss up/debt) helped concentrate his mind but he is now earning more than I do.
Number 2 son had no desire for university. He wanted to be an accountant but started working for me for about a year, then an electrical contractor specialising in solar panels in the boom times up to Feb 2012. He then moved to an accountants office as a trainee. He is still there now taking his final exams.
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When it comes down to money my younger brother and sister both attended university but I didn’t.Just been reflecting upon this, and true friends (not acquaintances) who have been the most successful in different ways. All of them have been truly exceptional in their success, and all in very different ways.
The most famous person I know (not celebrity) got a top degree at a top university …but started his own business and brand a couple of years later, and so his career didn't require the degree.
The other most famous person I know (celebrity) was spotted in the crowds at the Clothes Show Live whilst they were still at school and became a very successful model.
The most intelligent person I know left school at 16 and got a job as a pair of hands in a IT team. His knowledge and understanding of technology (and any other topic!) is other worldly.
The most senior person I know (as a true friend rather than only through work) in a corporate setting left school with the equivalent of A levels and got an apprenticeship with an accountancy firm.
The most wealthy person I know left school at 16 without any qualifications, and started digging holes because that’s all you could do at 16 without GCSEs. A couple of years later he started paying others to dig holes.
The most happy person I know left school at 16 and regards themself as thick but is far from it. They’re very skilled, passionate about work, lives in a lovely house in a beautiful place with a wonderful family.
The person who got their childhood-dream job, was very very bright, studied medicine at a top university and realised their dream of become a GP. Tragically they lost their battle with cancer a couple of years later.
From that I conclude that degrees are critical when their dream job is only possible with that degrees. For everyone else degrees may be part of the story but not even slightly important in that story.
I have seen exactly this when a company I was contracting for were having a hard time recruiting for a skills gap. When they showed me the advert for the job I burst out laughing. It had all sorts of references to the robotics, electrical and PLC on site , most of which were already being covered internally .Exactly, A few years ago we advertised for an Infra Engineer to join our team, we didn't get many applicants and the people that were applying weren't really up to scratch. We couldn't understand the lack of interest as the company pays extremely well and the company perks were excellent. We then realised that HR had put something along the lines of 'Computer Science Related Degree' in the job post as compulsory. We asked them to remove it and before we knew it we had plenty of people applying. Some of the people interviewed had seen the post the first time around and ignored it because they didn't have a Uni degree.
There's more to University than signing up.
We’ve got a chap in our family who’s as thick as a whale omelette but went to a posh school (Millfield I think) on a rugby scholarship and then went to Uni again due to his rugby prowess.Hugh Laurie: complete waste of space on his degree course: scraped a dodgy third in social anthropology. Went to Uni to row and act.
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