: Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:13 pm  

lurchio wrote:

Define massively in debt?! I think it was a sound investment! Did everytihng I wanted, got a degree and did a bit of travelling and played a hell of a lot of Rugby. How many non-students do you know who are racked with needless debt? I think student debt is the least of this country worries.

I'm paying it back now, I'm not losing any sleep over it.

What's more, it's a good time to be at uni at the minute.

What credit crunch?

: Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:14 pm  

lurchio wrote:

got a degree

Which I'm sure is worth almost as much as the paper it's written on.

Keep looking for your sense of humour, it's probably gone down a U-bend somewhere along with the 20 big ones you've wasted.

: Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:17 pm  

Dave Heron's Moustache wrote:

Which I'm sure is worth almost as much as the paper it's written on.

Keep looking for your sense of humour, it's probably gone down a U-bend somewhere along with the 20 big ones you've wasted.

Its not done me too badly so far!

I don't think of it as waste, more an invesmtent!

: Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:20 pm  

The average person with a degree earns on average £250,000 more in their lifetime than someone without, it's a small price to pay when you consider that fact.

: Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:22 pm  

Jord Rhinosaur wrote:

What's more, it's a good time to be at uni at the minute.

What credit crunch?

and one day you will have to join the real world!

: Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:23 pm  

gateaux wrote:

and one day you will have to join the real world!

By which time it will have eased somewhat.

: Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:23 pm  

gateaux wrote:

and one day you will have to join the real world!

Don't do it Jord Rhinosaur, be a 'lifer'!!!

: Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:45 pm  

Jord Rhinosaur wrote:

The average person with a degree earns on average £250,000 more in their lifetime than someone without, it's a small price to pay when you consider that fact.

This doesnt mean that if you have a degree your going to earn more than someone who doesnt though. Its only an average and is skewed by the big top earner like bankers. Or take doctors, they all have a degrees and can earn around 100k a year which is 75k above average if they work for 40 years they will earn 3 million more than the average person.

: Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:58 pm  

Jord Rhinosaur wrote:

The average person with a degree earns on average £250,000 more in their lifetime than someone without, it's a small price to pay when you consider that fact.

What about the below average person with a degree (there seem to be a few about)? I'm guessing the average skilled/semi-skilled worker will earn just as much, if not more, than the average/below average degree holder. Get a trade and you can work where you want, when you want and work for yourself. If I could go back in time I'd forget Uni and train as a plumber and heating engineer.

I'm not bothered if my kids go to Uni. They are bright, they can go and work and earn piles more money. The highest earning guy on our sales team is the only one without a degree.

: Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:09 pm  

Dave Heron's Moustache wrote:

Get a trade and you can work where you want, when you want

Not with the way things are at the moment