For those of you with kids looking to go to uni

[d000hg]

Spent most of my time at Uni drinking and pissing about before scraping a 3rd in the end, What it did give me was a better perspective on life. Growing up in Cornwall if I hadn't gone to Uni in London I'd never have expanded my outlook on the world, met such a diversity of people and experienced anything like the same range of cultures and perspectives. It's not just about the academic side of things, Uni lets you see the world beyond your own local bubble and realise that not everyone is the same as you and your mates back home.

All true but you could just have gone to London and got a job waiting tables for 3 years

[DaveB]

All true but you could just have gone to London and got a job waiting tables for 3 years

Could have done but wouldn't have done. Bar work, motorcycle courier, security guard, loading trucks all done while studying. Leaving home just for a tulip job wasn't an incentive, there were plenty of those available in Cornwall. Uni was the reason to go, working a tulip job was a side effect.

[TheDude]

I didn't pay £150k for private schools per child to go to a low ranking university

Going straight into the army instead - good show!

[d000hg]

Could have done but wouldn't have done. Bar work, motorcycle courier, security guard, loading trucks all done while studying. Leaving home just for a tulip job wasn't an incentive, there were plenty of those available in Cornwall. Uni was the reason to go, working a tulip job was a side effect.

Fair enough. If you were working to fund your degree then nobody can really claim it was wasted - can't imagine too many of the students round here doing manual labour when they could be in Starbucks in their pink trousers

[SueEllen]

Fair enough. If you were working to fund your degree then nobody can really claim it was wasted - can't imagine too many of the students round here doing manual labour when they could be in Starbucks in their pink trousers

Poor you.

I like my educated hospitality, retail and customer service staff you get so much better service.

Unfortunately B means lots of places have gone back to hiring 16 and 17 year olds...

[d000hg]

Poor you.

Come again? It's their lives that are going to be awful, not mine...

I like my educated hospitality, retail and customer service staff you get so much better service.

The pink-trousered students aren't working at Starbucks, that was rather the point. And I find local northern folk are far more helpful and friendly as servers. Jolly middle-aged ladies and gents who are happy to have a job, rather than wearing the weight of an unjust system that forces them to work for a living.