View Poll Results: Whatd you do after graduation?

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  • Used degree

    13 44.83%
  • Tossed deg out the window, went back to study

    3 10.34%
  • Burnt deg, jumped into diff field of work at the bottom

    5 17.24%
  • Who needs a quafilication

    8 27.59%
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Thread: Graduated from uni and bored shiteless of your field of study?

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    Quote Originally Posted by shrub View Post
    I'm now half way through my third degree from 2 universities - yeah, I know, I'm a sad bastard with no life.
    if you do a couple more and try some other universities ( wev'e got a few ) you could skip working and go from student to retired. ( Just like a Treaty Lawyer maybe )

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    Go to Thailand and go and see a proper ping pong show, you will then discover what life is really about

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    My mate got an BSc (hons) in Cellular Biology, then went Crayfishing, became a Hippie potter and sculptor in the bush, made shit loads of money and then went building! I went in, initially Land Surveying, got diverted by Geology/Paleontology, ended up driving Earthmovers and diggers before becoming a Chippie for 25 yrs, then a Quantity Surveyor and a Building Surveyor, as I got bored, so.......what you study now is not necessarily what you'll end up doing! Or end up studying!
    “- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”

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    I did pharmacology (loved chemistry) but at the end couldnt bare to work for a heartless drug company so did medicine......so I guess I did my degree decided I didn't like the job prospects (loved studying it) and started another haha

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    I have a friend who did 5 years of studying Law. She now works at JB Hi-Fi as a sales assistant on $15/hr.
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    where opinion holds more weight than fact.

    It's better to not pass and know that you could have than to pass and find out that you can't. Wait for the straight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rachprice View Post
    I did pharmacology (loved chemistry) but at the end couldnt bare to work for a heartless drug company so did medicine......so I guess I did my degree decided I didn't like the job prospects (loved studying it) and started another haha
    Get where you're coming from there. I love studying psychology, but really don't think I could spend all day analysing people's fucked up thoughts and blaming all the shit they do on their parents, love the study of though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by avgas View Post
    Haha we should start a social club where no one turns up.
    I feel your pain. I am currently working on MBA while working full-time as engineer. Thanks to fricken winter and fluro tubes - I have no idea what daylight looks like.
    My motorbikes are almost furniture. I got asked yesterday if they run......and I didn't know the answer.
    nice !!!!
    I'm in my final year of my MBA (11 months to go) including writing my thesis, whilst working full time as nerd

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    Ask Dean ...he's a master in this sort of advice!..hehehe
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    Take a break

    Go travelling maybe Japan (It really is an awesome place)

    Bum around

    Enjoy party

    There's lots to do

    Whatever floats your boat

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    Quote Originally Posted by Foxzee View Post
    Ask Dean ...he's a master in this sort of advice!..hehehe

    Deans retired = his mum has hidden the USB cable.

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    I know a number of people that studied various things at university.

    A lot of them got very good jobs (on minimum wage) working in various fast food outfits.

    One of them did well for herself. Her geography degree got her an admin (assistant) job on (boom boom) minimum wage.
    It's only when you take the piss out of a partially shaved wookie with an overactive 'me' gene and stapled on piss flaps that it becomes a problem.

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    I remember the days when lots of students didn't study "vocational" degrees. BAs in classics and history were a dime a dozen. Then polytechs became universities and dumbed up their diplomas to become "degrees" and universities panicked, took over the former polys and dumbed down their own offerings to compete and also threw a whole bunch of "degrees du jour" into the mix. At the same time governments in various guises tried to fob off the myth that qualifications held the keys to the Golden Kingdom. Double degrees have even become common, FFS.

    There is a big difference between knowledge and "qualifications". Anybody who thinks otherwise has probably got a Masters degree in Facile Timewasting.

    You have been conned, people. Unfortunately so too have your future employers.
    "Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]

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