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Post by fcredblue on Oct 15, 2007 23:04:48 GMT -1
get abit down with work? every single working day week of working in a office with a sence of whta the fuck am i doing?!?
has anyone got a clue what they wanted to be and how has it panned out for everyone?!
im depressed, all my mates have gone to uni...
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Post by Argyle_Smurf on Oct 15, 2007 23:49:15 GMT -1
Working spectacular hours on minimum wage gives me that feeling quite often. Especially the particular hours I do (just got in from work), and while looking at a garage bill for more than a months wages.
But the people are all really nice (excluding managers of course) and driving around all night is pretty fun. So it varies, basically.
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Post by Neko Bazu on Oct 16, 2007 7:15:45 GMT -1
I think everyone feels down at work from time to time - it's just a question of how often, and whether the ups at least balance it. In my case, they beat the downside!
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Post by HURLOCK on Oct 16, 2007 9:10:38 GMT -1
Working spectacular hours on minimum wage gives me that feeling quite often. Especially the particular hours I do (just got in from work), and while looking at a garage bill for more than a months wages. But the people are all really nice (excluding managers of course) and driving around all night is pretty fun. So it varies, basically. do you deliver pizzas for insomniacs?
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Post by Neko Bazu on Oct 16, 2007 9:19:00 GMT -1
Working spectacular hours on minimum wage gives me that feeling quite often. Especially the particular hours I do (just got in from work), and while looking at a garage bill for more than a months wages. But the people are all really nice (excluding managers of course) and driving around all night is pretty fun. So it varies, basically. do you deliver pizzas for insomniacs? Students, I'd suspect
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Post by Alex on Oct 16, 2007 9:20:39 GMT -1
I go to Uni and work. Work pisses me off but a lot of my friends work there too so i'm cool.
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Post by Neko Bazu on Oct 16, 2007 9:23:01 GMT -1
get abit down with work? every single working day week of working in a office with a sence of whta the fuck am i doing?!? has anyone got a clue what they wanted to be and how has it panned out for everyone?! im depressed, all my mates have gone to uni... Oh, and just for the record, Uni ain't so hot any more - degrees have become watered-down in the eyes of employers, 'cause they're so common now. Experience is the important thing, which is what you presumably have. Got a bloke working downstairs lugging bags of plastic granules round all day, and he's got a BSc in Material Chemistry, or something like that - shows how far it gets you! The difference is, when they come out of uni, they'll end up in a job just the same as everyone else, for the most part, only with about £10k of debt round their shoulders too Take the wise words from Avenue Q... What do you do with a BA in English? What is my life going to be? Four years of college, and plenty of knowledge Have earned me this useless degree I can't pay the bills yet, 'cause I have no skills yet The world is a big scary place...
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Post by HURLOCK on Oct 16, 2007 9:29:27 GMT -1
get abit down with work? every single working day week of working in a office with a sence of whta the fuck am i doing?!? has anyone got a clue what they wanted to be and how has it panned out for everyone?! im depressed, all my mates have gone to uni... Oh, and just for the record, Uni ain't so hot any more - degrees have become watered-down in the eyes of employers, 'cause they're so common now. Experience is the important thing, which is what you presumably have. Got a bloke working downstairs lugging bags of plastic granules round all day, and he's got a BSc in Material Chemistry, or something like that - shows how far it gets you! The difference is, when they come out of uni, they'll end up in a job just the same as everyone else, for the most part, only with about £10k of debt round their shoulders too Take the wise words from Avenue Q... What do you do with a BA in English? What is my life going to be? Four years of college, and plenty of knowledge Have earned me this useless degree I can't pay the bills yet, 'cause I have no skills yet The world is a big scary place...Personally I think it's got a lot to do with the individual, the qualification is only half the battle. Some of the large corporations demand degrees just for the normal trainee jobs!
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Post by Dr LuKas on Oct 16, 2007 9:34:41 GMT -1
Why didn't you go to Uni Neko, you seem like the kind of person I'd expect to meet there...?
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Post by Neko Bazu on Oct 16, 2007 9:37:18 GMT -1
Oh, and just for the record, Uni ain't so hot any more - degrees have become watered-down in the eyes of employers, 'cause they're so common now. Experience is the important thing, which is what you presumably have. Got a bloke working downstairs lugging bags of plastic granules round all day, and he's got a BSc in Material Chemistry, or something like that - shows how far it gets you! The difference is, when they come out of uni, they'll end up in a job just the same as everyone else, for the most part, only with about £10k of debt round their shoulders too Take the wise words from Avenue Q... What do you do with a BA in English? What is my life going to be? Four years of college, and plenty of knowledge Have earned me this useless degree I can't pay the bills yet, 'cause I have no skills yet The world is a big scary place...Personally I think it's got a lot to do with the individual, the qualification is only half the battle. Some of the large corporations demand degrees just for the normal trainee jobs! I know where I work, they usually ask for experience and/or a degree. Essentially, this is the system: - If a degree is required, it can be offset by experience in the role - If experience is required, a degree won't get you anywhere Granted, that's in engineering, but a degree alone really is useless for us - the amount of times people come in having done paperwork-only degrees and are painfully clueless in the real world is unreal.
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Post by Neko Bazu on Oct 16, 2007 9:40:34 GMT -1
Why didn't you go to Uni Neko, you seem like the kind of person I'd expect to meet there...? I took an apprenticeship instead - I started doing A-levels, got offered a job and high-tailed it out of there! The way I saw it, I got free training in a profession that'll provide me with work for life, and got paid while I was at it. After I was done, I was practically guaranteed a job too because the company wanted to recoup their investment. In my very first year, I was earning £9k a year just for going to college (went to work only during half term) and playing with heavy machinery, doing a bit of paperwork along the way. I was laughing!
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Post by HURLOCK on Oct 16, 2007 9:41:07 GMT -1
Hey I said it's to do with the personality - the degree is only half the battle. I always employed people who demonstrated a desire to succeed! And 9/10 they didn't have degrees
The graduate trainees at Cornhill where a bunch of twats, walking around creating havoc with an air of 'I'm special'
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Post by Neko Bazu on Oct 16, 2007 9:43:17 GMT -1
Hey I said it's to do with the personality - the degree is only half the battle. I always employed people who demonstrated a desire to succeed! And 9/10 they didn't have degrees The graduate trainees at Cornhill where a bunch of twats, walking around creating havoc with an air of 'I'm special' Oh yeah, I do get your point - I was just giving an example of how it is where I work. 'The individual' is certainly the key point - I was offered my job 2 months after applications had stopped being accepted, and got it ahead of the others. Perhaps not fair on them, but at the end of the day the company decided I was far better-suited for it than anyone else.
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Post by jh1980 on Oct 16, 2007 9:44:09 GMT -1
Personally I think it's got a lot to do with the individual, the qualification is only half the battle. Some of the large corporations demand degrees just for the normal trainee jobs! Yeah, I'm sorta in two minds. Some of my friends from Uni did get the hugely overpaid dream jobs straight away on the back of their blue chip degrees. Others of us who don't choose certain routes don't find that our laudable academic achievement really counts for shit in "the real world" That's not a moan though. And frankly, go to Uni RB, it's the most fun you'll ever have - seriously.
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Post by Neko Bazu on Oct 16, 2007 9:47:53 GMT -1
it's the most fun you'll ever have - seriously. ;D
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Post by Dr LuKas on Oct 16, 2007 9:48:38 GMT -1
Why didn't you go to Uni Neko, you seem like the kind of person I'd expect to meet there...? I took an apprenticeship instead - I started doing A-levels, got offered a job and high-tailed it out of there! The way I saw it, I got free training in a profession that'll provide me with work for life, and got paid while I was at it. After I was done, I was practically guaranteed a job too because the company wanted to recoup their investment. In my very first year, I was earning £9k a year just for going to college (went to work only during half term) and playing with heavy machinery, doing a bit of paperwork along the way. I was laughing! Ok thanks, so you got pretty lucky then.
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Post by jh1980 on Oct 16, 2007 9:48:49 GMT -1
it's the most fun you'll ever have - seriously. ;D LOL, why?! ;D
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Post by Dr LuKas on Oct 16, 2007 9:51:02 GMT -1
Personally I think it's got a lot to do with the individual, the qualification is only half the battle. Some of the large corporations demand degrees just for the normal trainee jobs! That's not a moan though. And frankly, go to Uni RB, it's the most fun you'll ever have - seriously. Oh man don't say that, depressing.
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Post by Neko Bazu on Oct 16, 2007 9:51:47 GMT -1
I took an apprenticeship instead - I started doing A-levels, got offered a job and high-tailed it out of there! The way I saw it, I got free training in a profession that'll provide me with work for life, and got paid while I was at it. After I was done, I was practically guaranteed a job too because the company wanted to recoup their investment. In my very first year, I was earning £9k a year just for going to college (went to work only during half term) and playing with heavy machinery, doing a bit of paperwork along the way. I was laughing! Ok thanks, so you got pretty lucky then. It so happened that my company and the college I trained at have close links, since the college recommends students as apprentices and this company always sends it students there. My mum knew one of the guys who ran the course, and mentioned my GCSE grades to him - he mentioned it to the HR guy here, and HR guy was interested. When he got my character references from my school too, he was more than happy to take me on
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Post by HURLOCK on Oct 16, 2007 9:51:58 GMT -1
;D LOL, why?! ;D Actually on what grounds do base that, best years of my life comment! Because you should always be happy. As you're working for the better things in life that you can now afford!
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