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How could anyone not enjoy Uni? Get up when you want, go in when you want, dog ate my homework Professor, sod the exam I'll study for the resit, student union beer prices, lovely ladies (with brains!), arcade games/pinball/snooker all day, smashing. And you're learning stuff! If I won the lottery I'd go back...

I frequently use my law degree to dispense free (and increasingly out of date) legal advice to my passengers, but it isn't strictly speaking part of the job :-D

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I have a degree. My job requires that I have a technical degree. I don't use the knowledge that I gained from doing my degree (often, though others doing the same job as me do) but I do use the skills that I developed from my degree to do my job.

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Mine was really hard. Uni was fun but the work was very difficult, not all students get to **** around all day long!

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I certainly dont :(

Matt

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University is a fountain of knowledge, where students go to drink.

I had lectures every day only thursday afternoons without one. I could never understand how some ....grrrrrr Psychology wasters grrrr only had lectures on 2 days a week and still got degrees. One waster even told me that engineers were incapable of thinking for themselves and simply regurgitated others work. grrrr. Yup never saw the purpose of a pychologist. Should be first against the wall come the glorious day when the engineers rise again

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Am I allowed to post on here darylB's daughter btw. I guess this isnt directly bike related so im going to anyway.

I graduated this year I did a BSc in Information Systems and Music, however due to the course being rubbish and assuming as soon as I left college I had programming experience (I actually had none and they expected us to learn about 7 different languages in 3 years) and our performance co ordinator had his favourites and I wasnt one of them, I ended up with a crap grade, I dont even list it on my cv.

I started working in May as an IT Support Tech, I found out after about 2 months of working here that they only employed me as I had a fair amount of IT knowledge and due to having no experience I was cheap to employ. I dont really use anything I learnt in my 3 years of Uni at all, I hate my job but I seem to be unemployable around here due to having no experience and not having the CCNA, MCSE everyone asks for nowadays.

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Engineering is all about thinking! If only it was remembering; there's a limit to how hard that can be (i.e. easy!). Being able to fully understand and apply your knowledge is entirely what engineering is about. Even the med students admit it's just quantity of work that annoys them, that it's no harder than A-Level.

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small world! :) i love aber, tis a great place to study.

so true, some of the degrees at my uni don't sound real...got a housemate who does ''Film and Television'' and she used to spend 3 hours watching a film on the monday, mebbe a seminar or a couple of lectures during the week and an essay to do :mad: whereas I'd be in uni for most of the day every day and expected to swallow textbooks :smt012 oh yeah and one of her exams involved naming the functions of a camera!! taxing...

my cousins are all from down south and have either done a psychology degree or are doing one, and someone else did a Public Relations one. I'm the only one doing a BSc and even if my degree comes out rubbish at least I'll be able to say have attempted a 'proper' degree :mrgreen:

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Did a degree in Environmental Science back in '83 and ended up working in IT for 20 odd years before I could escape.

I'm back at uni now in my second year of a paramedic science programme which will take about 5 years to complete (first 3 years full time to foundation degree level and the last 2 part time for the full BSc although I'm actually working as an EMT for 2 weeks out of 4 for the next 2 years anyway). I'm hoping that it will come in useful!!!

It seems to me that there are 2 types of degree, vocational and general. If you intend to become for example an engineering professional then it makes sense to take an appropriate degree e.g. mining, civil, marine etc. Some career paths you don't have any choice i.e. pretty much anything health related (nursing, physio, ODP, radiographer). They don't always have to be directly related to your career choice, a former colleague's daughter who wanted to go into journalism was told to look for a solid subject like english which would be of much more use than many "journalism" courses on offer.

Some institutions "like" their new recruits to be qualified to degree level e.g. commissioned officer in the forces or civil service so the ability to prove you can achieve a good pass in a useful subject is a plus but is not mandatory (but bear in mind that in the future you will be competing against graduates for promotion). If you plan on going into anything with "chartered" in the title again I think it helps to have a degree as a starting point (heard a whisper that although high placed officials in Northern Rock had degrees in economics, none of them were members of the Charted Institute of Bankers)

IMO the trouble is that we have a government that seems to want to churn out graduates simply to look good on the statistics front and doesn't really care what discipline they are studying. All you are doing is raising the expectations of students when they really aren't enough jobs that actually require a degree to go round. I agree wholeheartedly with the earlier poster who said that engineers don't get the respect the deserve in this country. We are losing too many people who are good with their hands down inappropriate academic paths. On the other hand I know many people who don't have degrees and are doing just fine.

Again on the other hand lets get a few more MBAs in the NHS and maybe we won't see a repeat of the criminally irresponsible farce that is the PFI contract.

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Which is why uni places used to be limited, to stop people going to uni for the sake of it and just racking up debt. Labour used it as some kind of argument against them that it meant uni wasn't available to the poor; as if! Their policy now just means all but the poorest pay through their teeth for it and thousands end up in huge unecessary debt.