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November 30, 2009 at 9:09 am #1048433
Ok what shall I do:
stay at 6th form with me mates generally having a laugh but a lot of work to do
get a job and earn lots of money , but be out of contact a bit with the people I would want to share that money with
On you marks, get set, cast yer votes.
November 30, 2009 at 10:35 am #1221099finish college mate not having A Levels is a big disadvantage generally speaking these days. Plus there’s not much work around anyway and dropping out of something doesn’t look too good on the old CV anyway.
ps plus you seem like a clever chap and you want your CV to reflect that, got your whole life to work.
November 30, 2009 at 10:53 am #1221084i almost garuantee i could get me a job in the next 2 weeks starting on at least 11 grand if i tried 🙂
November 30, 2009 at 10:57 am #1221085but i do c what you mean, its difficult to turn back & get a levels again, and ive hand written about 600 double sides pages of A4 since september, which would all be wasted
November 30, 2009 at 10:59 am #1221080if you don’t wanna do sixth form then don’t do it, if you do then do. only you know if u wanna do this deep down joshy boi
November 30, 2009 at 11:00 am #1221086its not an important decision, so i thought i would allow the wonderful souls and gems of PV to handle this one
November 30, 2009 at 11:09 am #1221075I would stay on in education mate, its something I wish I did. I left school 10 years ago and spent the first half a year doing odd jobs and getting mashed. Then I went on and started full time work, it seemed great at first but I soon came to realise that I should have stayed on in education as mates all started to buy very nice cars and then their own houses. I can only dream of affording this,
However you can get somewhere without education but its not recommended or easy, I know someone who started off on a factory line with no qualifications and now they are raking it in as a manager very high up in a big company.
It has taken me a long time to get a job that I really want to do that will actually get me somewhere good, but that was just a lucky break really
November 30, 2009 at 11:28 am #1221100@joshd96320 364351 wrote:
i almost garuantee i could get me a job in the next 2 weeks starting on at least 11 grand if i tried 🙂
11 grand isnt much man in this day and age. College College College
November 30, 2009 at 11:32 am #1221065depends what sort of job you are planning on getting… a lot of my younger mates in their teens/20s did not stay on / dropped out of college and are finding hard to get work.
others got apprenticeships as mechanics or electricians but the smaller local companies here don’t seem to treat their staff that well
and most office jobs do want people with A levels – it did help when I was looking for work in 1992 but then again I didn’t want to do further/higher education (dropped out of uni after 2 years) and didn’t enjoy 6th form at all..
but if you got something like an apprenticeship with Openreach (British Telecom) they pay quite well and send you to do training courses on electronics, I think they may also contribute towards getting a driving license – you do have to do a load of boring cable monkeying but its one of those jobs what can’t get bangalored as the telephone wires have to stay in Britain..
November 30, 2009 at 11:38 am #1221071stay on at colege – you wont get this time back so enjoy it :love:
work will always be an option later on in life….
November 30, 2009 at 11:38 am #1221087@1984 364360 wrote:
11 grand isnt much man in this day and age. College College College
its not too bad when your 16 and then minimum wage is rather low
@General Lighting 364361 wrote:
depends what sort of job you are planning on getting… a lot of my younger mates in their teens/20s did not stay on / dropped out of college and are finding hard to get work.
others got apprenticeships as mechanics or electricians but the smaller local companies here don’t seem to treat their staff that well
and most office jobs do want people with A levels – it did help when I was looking for work in 1992 but then again I didn’t want to do further/higher education (dropped out of uni after 2 years) and didn’t enjoy 6th form at all..
but if you got something like an apprenticeship with Openreach (British Telecom) they pay quite well and send you to do training courses on electronics, I think they may also contribute towards getting a driving license – you do have to do a load of boring cable monkeying but its one of those jobs what can’t get bangalored as the telephone wires have to stay in Britain..
i did look at BT apprenticeship, but ya need an ICT A-level, which is also one of the reasons i joined 6th form, incase i wanted the apprenticeship.
Anyway, general consensus is that i should stay on in education, so i shall take your golden words and be in school for a teaching of government & politics @ 8:20 tomorrow :love:
November 30, 2009 at 11:43 am #1221076@joshd96320 364363 wrote:
its not too bad when your 16 and then minimum wage is rather low
I dunno as my pot monkeys when I was a chef were on this….
November 30, 2009 at 11:47 am #1221068Aside from furthering your intellectual interests and career potential etc, one of the big pluses of college (and esp. University) is the social experience…many people say the best years of your life. Then again, I’m the eternal student.
November 30, 2009 at 11:50 am #1221069Plus if your more of a free spirit, it’s going to be difficult to be on the kind of hampster wheel that a lot of a jobs involve.
November 30, 2009 at 12:04 pm #1221088@PhilKmorgan 364366 wrote:
Aside from furthering your intellectual interests and career potential etc, one of the big pluses of college (and esp. University) is the social experience…many people say the best years of your life. Then again, I’m the eternal student.
ye, that is quite important to me… its easy to organise parties / weekends when everyone is in one place. and also gotta love whappin out the boombox at lunch and educating the children on decent music :bounce_fl
@PhilKmorgan 364367 wrote:
Plus if your more of a free spirit, it’s going to be difficult to be on the kind of hampster wheel that a lot of a jobs involve.
yeah, this is a hindrance i have considered… :p
November 30, 2009 at 12:14 pm #1221092depends.. if ure never going to take education all the way and get a degree, then stay. if you’re never going to pursue academia i dont think its really worth doing A levels, you’ll probably get futher by starting an apprenticeship in an industry that interests you
November 30, 2009 at 12:22 pm #1221077@Iacchus 364371 wrote:
depends.. if ure never going to take education all the way and get a degree, then stay. if you’re never going to pursue academia i dont think its really worth doing A levels, you’ll probably get futher by starting an apprenticeship in an industry that interests you
These can be worth it, I know someone who got an apprenticeship with BMW at the factory where the make Minis, I tried to get on one but couldn’t but seems to be a good way to make money if you can do factory work, he doesnt work on the lines though. once in a blue moon he will if they are short staffed
November 30, 2009 at 12:35 pm #1221078you got plenty of time to work throught out your life … don’t do what i did and fuck off all my education only to wish i hadn’t years later …. get as educated as u can whilst it’s free cos once you get over 18 u have to pay for it all and makes it harder to do if it’s costing you to learn and you have to work to pay that off later on in life …
November 30, 2009 at 12:36 pm #1221079yeah aprentaships are good … you get paid to learn and have a job when you come out the otehr end …. i also fucked of a very good aprentaship when i was about 18 and in last few years have started to really regret it!
November 30, 2009 at 12:54 pm #1221072its completely your choice mate
although i dropped out of college soon after starting, got a full-time job i hated earnin £3.50 an hour (then £4.77 when i was 18) and was fucked around by bosses etc. an generally it took the piss
after a year of that soul-destroyin monotomous shit, and facing the prospect of doin fuck all but mashin myself up in a whirlwind of low-self esteem each and every night, my brother gave me a hull uni prospectus and there was a foundation award one day a week with no entry requirements
year later i had passed that and it got me into leeds met, lovin it here atm
basically i would say definitely stay in some form of education
November 30, 2009 at 1:12 pm #1221093incidently all my mates who got the highest grades in higher education worked for a few years and then went back into education
nothing like a few years in a shit job to motivate you to do well
November 30, 2009 at 2:07 pm #1221081get a job and go sixth form? =D
November 30, 2009 at 2:08 pm #1221094i did both fo sho
November 30, 2009 at 2:33 pm #1221095@p0ly 364387 wrote:
get a job and go sixth form? =D
LMAO 😀
if there’s only black and white… p0ly is grey. ffs :weee:
I reckon if you’ve got the smarts to pass a course that is valuable in the “outside world” do it fella. It’ll expand your horizon when it comes to getting a job you enjoy.
If, however you do film studies A level as your further education, you may as well get on the first rung of the ladder in a company who’s interesting to you instead.
I did every course at my local college when I left school bar hairdressing, just as a way of avoiding meaningful employment, lol. Hey, it was free then 😉 and I fluked it when I left by falling into a job that had prospects :love:
Good luck with, what was it? government & politics?
November 30, 2009 at 2:48 pm #1221089government & politics: completely shit subject but i had to take another one since everything clashed. im also doin ict & history. i also want to do psychology, physics, maths, philosophyðics, but everything clashed..
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