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Previously on "Teenagers!!"

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  • milanbenes
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    Dave,

    you're gonna fit in well around here

    welcome

    Milan.

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  • sasguru
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    Originally posted by Money Money Money View Post
    To be honest grades and degrees don't really mean much in the majority of jobs. I left school after A-Levels, where as a lot of my friends went on to Uni.

    90% of them now have £20,000+ student loans and are all saying they can't get jobs without experience. I'm 99% sure I'm doing better than all of my friends that went to Uni.

    Uni really is just a huge piss up these days, the first year is a joke, second years pretty much the same and the third year they knuckle down for 6 months to get their degree.

    I'd let her get a part time job in Mc D's, She'll hate it! Then offer her £xx for each grade that she improves on. I'm guessing its AS Levels shes just done? They don't mean anything if she improves on her A-Levels.

    Good Luck
    That's true in the contracting game, quals mean nowt.
    But when the market dries up and times get hard they'll pick the grads over the non.

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  • Incognito
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    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    But the quality of the birds during the 3-4 years of uni is greater
    And they come on tap.
    I've never gone to bed with an ugly bird. Woke up next to a few though.

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  • sasguru
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    Originally posted by Dave.Mac View Post
    Got paid to drink beer and shag burds for 6 years.
    But the quality of the birds during the 3-4 years of uni is greater
    And they come on tap.

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  • Incognito
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    Originally posted by milanbenes View Post
    omg,

    we've got another ex squaddie here.... Dave.Mac

    jeeeez


    Milan.
    Got paid to drink beer and shag burds for 6 years.

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  • Money Money Money
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    To be honest grades and degrees don't really mean much in the majority of jobs. I left school after A-Levels, where as a lot of my friends went on to Uni.

    90% of them now have £20,000+ student loans and are all saying they can't get jobs without experience. I'm 99% sure I'm doing better than all of my friends that went to Uni.

    Uni really is just a huge piss up these days, the first year is a joke, second years pretty much the same and the third year they knuckle down for 6 months to get their degree.

    I'd let her get a part time job in Mc D's, She'll hate it! Then offer her £xx for each grade that she improves on. I'm guessing its AS Levels shes just done? They don't mean anything if she improves on her A-Levels.

    Good Luck
    Last edited by Money Money Money; 21 July 2008, 15:46.

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  • milanbenes
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    omg,

    we've got another ex squaddie here.... Dave.Mac

    jeeeez


    Milan.

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  • FiveTimes
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    Originally posted by Diver View Post
    The oldest profession in the world, is still work
    Marriage ?

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  • Chugnut
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    Originally posted by oracleslave View Post
    Beats being a tape changer

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  • Diver
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    Originally posted by Sockpuppet View Post


    Were missing the real issue here.

    Is she good looking? If so she won't need to work.
    The oldest profession in the world, is still work

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  • Sockpuppet
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    Were missing the real issue here.

    Is she good looking? If so she won't need to work.

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  • wobbegong
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    Originally posted by Dave.Mac View Post
    Don't knock her, let her make her own mistakes and be there to pick her up if she stumbles on the way.
    A virtual pint for that man! Common sense and good parenting in a nutshell.

    You can't live their lives for them, you can only advise.

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  • oracleslave
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    Originally posted by milanbenes View Post
    with one year left of school, and those marks, I think you need to face reality that Mcdonalds might be the best she can hope for

    Milan.
    Beats being a tape changer

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  • milanbenes
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    with one year left of school, and those marks, I think you need to face reality that Mcdonalds might be the best she can hope for

    Milan.

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  • Incognito
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    I left school at 16 with three GCSE's. Got a p/t job at McDs for about a year and then dossed about for another year. Joined the forces, did 6 years, got 5 more O'Levels and 2 A'Levels. Been out 7 years contracting and in the last three years I've been on £400p/d + without a break in between contracts. I've got 2 houses and 3 flats (with an average 60% mortgage on each), go on sunny holidays once a year and snowboarding once a year. Own a nice car + a great bike. Not bad for three GCSE's at the age of 16.

    And I'm midway through my LLB for my plan B.

    Don't knock her, let her make her own mistakes and be there to pick her up if she stumbles on the way.

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