Our highly educated grads on the scrapheap

[DimPrawn]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8078034.stm

36,000 unemployed graduates and yet we are still importing people at the same rate as ever.

[sasguru]

Yeah but the graduates in that article had "degrees" in history, journalism, graphic design and media. Just what we need.

[lightng]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8078034.stm

36,000 unemployed graduates and yet we are still importing people at the same rate as ever.

When I graduated in 92, the economy was tulipe then too. Lots of new graduates were without jobs.

I had to take a crap job for a year before I got the accountancy training contract I wanted. One of my mates had a first class honours in Economics from a top 5 uni and he spent his first two years cutting grass on a golf course whilst making a side living selling golf balls he found lying around. He's a top barrister in London now though.

[Mich the Tester]

When I graduated in 92, the economy was tulipe then too. Lots of new graduates were without jobs.

I had to take a crap job for a year before I got the accountancy training contract I wanted. One of my mates had a first class honours in Economics from a top 5 uni and he spent his first two years cutting grass on a golf course whilst making a side living selling golf balls he found lying around. He's a top barrister in London now though.

WHS I graduated in 94 in geography and spent a year working down a sewer welding plastic linings onto the walls. Then the PM from a water company told me they needed someone in the planning dept and I got a graduate level, highly academic job earning less than I did down the sewer, but it got me started. Nothing wrong with doing a tulipty job for a year or so. It did me some good and paid for my first car.

[PM-Junkie]

If there is one thing I hate more than a scummy low-life student, it's a scummy low-life graduate.

Oh, hang on....

[NotAllThere]

Yeah but the graduates in that article had "degrees" in history, journalism, graphic design and media. Just what we need.

I think you'll find few of them have degrees in history. That's one of the old, heavy-weight degrees that's been around for a long time, and requires a fair amount of intelligence.

[BoredBloke]

I graduated in 91 and couldn't get anybody to employ me so I employed me. Been contracting throughout.

[Mich the Tester]

I graduated in 91 and couldn't get anybody to employ me so I employed me. Been contracting throughout.

that's what I should have done.

[lightng]

I think you'll find few of them have degrees in history. That's one of the old, heavy-weight degrees that's been around for a long time, and requires a fair amount of intelligence.

One thing you can say about History. The study of it gets harder every year.

Another thing you can say is that there's no future in history.

[Menelaus]

Ba-dum tish.

I did maths. Admittedly, you do get a lot of nerds in maths (including moi ) but I've been fairly fortunate that even in the mid-90s people were starting to decide that a degree in hairdressing or media studies (poor thing) was more of a doss than a proper, hard science.