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Les Biehn

GAME OVER
Aug 14, 2005
20,610
I have a masters degree and earn £13,000 a year. I am clearly doing something very wrong.
 




Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash
Jul 6, 2003
72,351
Reckon anybody's ever done a degree in Football Message Boards?

& NSC would make a SPLENDID Specialist Subject round on Mastermind :lol:
 


ROSM

Well-known member
Dec 26, 2005
6,776
Just far enough away from LDC
Tom Hark said:
Reckon anybody's ever done a degree in Football Message Boards?

& NSC would make a SPLENDID Specialist Subject round on Mastermind :lol:

try the sir norman chester inistitute for football research. After the Bring Home the Albion campaign I looked to do some research work with them (and get a masters woo hoo).

Didn't come to anything though.
 




Barrel of Fun

Abort, retry, fail
Tesco in Disguise said:
point. i was referring mainly to academic courses that are offered at ex-poly universities.

polytechnics have their role, to be sure. but i think trying to make them more red-brick has been a mistake.

Ah, ok.

The course I did was consistently battling it out with Reading and Cambridge for the honours of best in the country. Although, it is classified as academic!! :D
 
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Les Biehn

GAME OVER
Aug 14, 2005
20,610
Tesco in Disguise said:
ouch. what and where?

Masters degree in Film Studies and work in admin at a media centre. The trouble is my degree isn't very vocational and the area I want to get into is very competative. Especially if Mummy and Daddy can't bankroll you.
 


Man of Harveys

Well-known member
Jul 9, 2003
18,877
Brighton, UK
bigc said:
I've not heard many people ever say that they've had a great time studying in London, although I'm sure there must be some.
 






terrymendez

New member
Nov 22, 2006
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Dials
A degree does mean nothing, however when you go for a job it doesn't half help however irelevant the degree is.

It basically means in most cases you have 1) lived more than 20 minutes from your parents 2)you have succesfully survived on a fiver a week 3) you have mastered the art of getting hammered 7 days running (on a fiver)4) you have managed to get a degree despite missing 70% of all your classes 5) you have got alot out your system and are ready to face the real world.

All by the age of 23. (in most cases)......

It is simple, a large proportion of successful people have a degree, and they want to emply people with degrees........

The odd non degree employee may slip through the net on the odd occasion, good on em i say,
 


bigc

New member
Jul 5, 2003
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Man of Harveys said:
I've not heard many people ever say that they've had a great time studying in London, although I'm sure there must be some.

Where did you study?

It's not that I'm not totally enjoying it, it's alright and it's something to do, but it's not knocking me out, whereas I'd expect one of the top 10 Uni's in the country to do that.

Social life wise, looking old for my age, the whole going out seen has become second nature to me so that was really water off a ducks back. To some people(who come from dull shitholes), it's like a brand new world going off somewhere else.

To me I'm just doing what I'd do in Brighton but in London.

Does make me realise how ethnically homogenous Brighton is though!
 






Bad Ash

Unregistered User
Jul 18, 2003
1,905
Housewares
terrymendez said:
A degree does mean nothing, however when you go for a job it doesn't half help however irelevant the degree is.

It basically means in most cases you have 1) lived more than 20 minutes from your parents 2)you have succesfully survived on a fiver a week 3) you have mastered the art of getting hammered 7 days running (on a fiver)4) you have managed to get a degree despite missing 70% of all your classes 5) you have got alot out your system and are ready to face the real world.

All by the age of 23. (in most cases)......

It is simple, a large proportion of successful people have a degree, and they want to emply people with degrees........

The odd non degree employee may slip through the net on the odd occasion, good on em i say,

If I were in the position to recruit and I had 2 similar candidates the only difference being one had a mickey mouse degree and the other A-levels and has been working for 3 years then chances are I'd give it to the one without degree. They've already shown me they have more common sense. Also, if they've been working for 3 years rather than studying they'd probably settle in to another work environment much easier. I don't think they would need to get anything 'out of their system'.
 


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