Lifestyle choice advice please

[beyond]

Errrmmm, waiting till later inevitably ends up never, BUT, once the govt brings in the natural sterilisation procedures, there won't be much left to trap so better get in while the critters are out there mate

Work and trap hard, save your pennies, finish trapping once Helen has eradicated everything that breathes and moves and taxed the rest out of existence and then do your degree with a bank account full of mulla and a brand new bike to tootle around on.

[The Pastor]

there is my point you fucking dick.

you're not even interested in it. it's shit.

don't waste your money or your life.

Yeah but I can be good at it.

[mstriumph]

yeah, but I prefer working out doors that suit and tie stuff..... i'll guess i'll stay in engineering and spend up large on books.

Guess I won't be riding very much.

oh for pity's sake

do what you are INTERESTED in

do what makes you HAPPY

................. life is uncertain - eat your pudding first!

[The_Dover]

Yeah but I can be good at it.

no you cant.

if you dont like it you will not put in any sort of sustained effort and will always be looking for a back door.

[The Pastor]

no you cant.

if you dont like it you will not put in any sort of sustained effort and will always be looking for a back door.

Not really, I do like it, I just like other stuff more.

[BAD DAD]

A fact of life for most people is that a working life without quals gets harder everytime you need to change jobs. If you aint got the gift of the gab your going to find it harder to find well paid work that offers some satisfaction. I got no quals to speak of and it's cost me a lot of opportunities ever since I left school in the late 80's, not to mention all the money that goes with some of those opps. Noone ever regretted getting a decent education.

[The_Dover]

Noone ever regretted getting a decent education.

you clearly missed or mis-read my posts then.

education is not just for school leavers.

[Pixie]

Go trapping.
In a few years you may progress to being toothless,sitting on the porch of your shack,playing a banjo

[Lucy]

Gotta agree with Dover on this thread, when I left school (early 80s) university was free, so not everybody went. Now it's expensive and everybody goes. The only time I thought about going was when I realized how easy it was by the dumbf**ks I knew who were there and passing with Bs. I did a correspondence course from Massey, did my four assignments whilst drunk, did the exam without putting any footnotes or quotes (didnt know any) and passed.

The reason it's easier to get a job with a degree is cos all the dummies in charge of HR (or even worse - recruitment agencies) have degrees and think it means something. Then they spend all day forwarding joke emails. If I have to impress those people to get a job, I don't want that job.

Life is short and unpredictable. No-one was ever on their deathbed saying

" I wish I had worked more"

Putting off study for a year until you can afford it does not mean you will put it off forever, as some here are saying. I think it sounds mature to save up for something, instead of going into debt. Especially for an experience like trapping.

Go for it.

[avgas]

Its a dip man....get it finished - as all the money you spent so far will be a fucken waste.
Stop fucking round - it costs ya money.
That money could have been spent on a new bike.
If you wanted to go trapping so badly why are you doing civil in the first place? Likewise if you hate civil, why are you still doing it?

[Finn]

Take it from somebody who 'never quite got aound to getting a qualification' and ended up out of a job in his early 40's without any qualifications - the world looks pretty damn nasty right about then!!

So your advice to RM is that if all else fails in life, you can always become a cop?

[jrandom]

You won't be saying that in 25 years... Get an education.

Yeah. What the dwarf said.

And most engineers don't wear suits.

Even if you don't end up doing the job the dip is supposed to qualify you for, passing with good grades shows people you have a few brain cells and can work hard, the key there being good grades. 'C's may get degrees, but if and when you're trying to get your first job you'd do better to have a bit of varied experience and be self-taught than to rock up with nothing but a mediocre pass level from some cookie-cutter course.

And yes, if you don't press ahead and finish the diploma now, you never will. In these cases, 'later' always turns into 'never'.

Bear in mind that if you have a chosen career path, the sooner you're in that industry the better. The time you spend trapping or anything else unrelated will inevitably just push back your good earning years by the same length.

[Finn]

if you dont like it you will not put in any sort of sustained effort and will always be looking for a back door.

Nothing like mixing a bit of business with pleasure.

[Edbear]

Finish your diploma first. You'll still be a numbnuts, but at least you'll be a qualified numbnuts.

If you go trapping now, one thing will lead to another and you'll end up with no qualifications whatsoever. That may or may not make a difference, but you're young enough that you might as well mitigate some risk and finish school.

Wot Fish said! I turned down an apprenticeship when I was 16 to go work in the bush and earn the big dollars! Got hurt, never got qualifications and now I'm a Tool Salesman... (I can spell, but... ).

You have been warned...

[scumdog]

So your advice to RM is that if all else fails in life, you can always become a cop?

Shee-it yeah! and then you can heaps of fun trolling to the max on KB and with all the moron bush-lawyers here it's like shooting fish in a barrel, you'll have a ball! - (unless you fucked up your young life earlier on or are too short and can't get into the Police).

Of course if you have a degree you get brownie points with the recruiting officer when you apply.....