Got a bit of a problem, but not a bad one really.

Just finished 2nd year of uni before the summer, a degree course in Graphic Technology.

Was getting pretty sick of being skint/going to uni, so applied for a few jobs.

Went for an interview last week, and got a letter today saying they'd like me to come back for a more casual meeting, and show me the working area/jobs they have on etc...

The starting salary is £16280 p/a, im 19, living with parents, no outgoings blah blah, and i rekon with small jobs on the side i could be nudging £17000 give or take.

Now, do i go, and take the job if i get offered it? Gain a years experiance, and a years wages? but in theory have wasted 2 years at uni.

Or do i go back to uni, for a year, and get my Degree? Obviously in the hope that i am more employable, in more sectorts of employment, being a graduate.

Dont want to count my chickens, as i havent got the job yet, however, as a foresight, i should probably think about it.

 

Get your degree

 

No Brainer IMO.....

 

Agree with Porkie

£17K wont go far when you do have overheads

 

Finish uni mate. I dont care what anyone says, you will get the better jobs and you will go further because of it! Stick with it for sure

Dan

 

Get your degree, if you don't like this job and quit that as well, your c.v will look like you couldn't stick at anything or just buggered off as soon as you got a better offer.

 

I'd take the job, working is SOOOO much better than studying and it feels so good when you are earning and no longer a bumming student

 

i took a year out which has now turned into two years, im on good money, but doing something totally unrelated to what i was studying. i was doing aerospace engineering, but am now doing security work.

its upto you mate at the end of the day, id sugest you speak to the person you have the interview with and explain that you dont know what to do, youd like to take the job, but dont want to waste your hard work at uni and not be able to furhter your career without the degree....

 

I'd quit Uni and get a trade.......thats coming from someone who's 2 years out of university graduated with a good degree!

 

Thats a good point.

Dunno, the thought of earning money is what attracts me obviously, but on the other side, 17k p/a isnt that much at all on the large scale of things.

I dunno terrible decision to make.

 

May sound like a great idea earning money until you're in a job and people with degrees - that are younger and probably thicker than you - are promoted, earning more and telling you what to do.

If you're motivated by money, have a look at the AVERAGE medium sized business, look at the operational and board directors and count how many have degrees compared to those that don't

My first job when I graduated in 2000 started at £16.5k and 2 years later had more than doubled. Look at the long term, whatever this job is you were offered, how much are the people earning that have been doing it for 3+ years?

If it's an awesome amount, fuck it! Quit and I'll come and work there too

As 2-Scoops from Gladiators said "Don't be a fool, stay in skool"



And don't do drugs.

 

get your degre mate, ive got a meet at the collage tomorrow to better myself and im 24 wish id done it at 19

 

i so wish i got a degree

 

about a month

 

see if they'll sponsor you in your final year - it won't hurt to ask

 

Thats a good suggestion. Don't tie yourself in for too long after though.

 

If you were only a year through or hadn't started I think it'd be more to think about...but to be honest you'll only be in Uni from October to June really with most of april & the christmas period off...get the degree.
Moreso if you've taken out loans etc...how's it going to feel paying back 1000's in student loans for a degree you didn't finish

The same jobs will be around next year..and they may pay you more as a graduate..

 

 

Having graduated with taking a year out for my 3rd year in my degree and just landed myself a contracting job at BT i would say go do the degree, you will get a job as long keep dishing out your c.v but apply straight away and you will be fine.

experiance is handy dont get me wrong, i was getting offers all the time because of the job i got in my 3rd year and this is the reason i did a placement and for the money but without is also possible but you will start off with crap money.


I did a computer science degree btw

 

cant beat having money in your pocket

 

I'd go for it mate, not every one who gets a degree gets a good job with good pay, depends what yer career goal is.

 

if your only 19 mate u may aswell just stick at it and get ya degree. trust me, speakin from experience. i dropped out of my degree and regret it everyday. im now 23 and have a shit job and duno what im gona do in life

 

working is by far better and agree with john laverick to some extend.

but ....

if you drop out now you'll never know what that last year would have been like and you will live to regret not getting that final piece of paper! pleased i got my degree and probably partied hardest in my last year so its probably been the best year of my life so far! swung around for me after a couple of shite years!

 

FINISH UNI!

SO many reasons to.

just the fact you have a Degree goes quite a way on job front!

+ 2/3s of the way thru, you're on the home run.

You accumilated debt being a student (student loan etc?) ? MAKE IT WORTH IT! get the bit of paper at the end!

Feel better in yourself for sticking it out... dont expect when you get a job for it to be great! Quite a few of jobs become dull as dog-shit after a while! lol


Reasons for quitting?

you're bored.

mate, finish, you will be glad you did!

(take this from someone who didnt go to uni, and that is about the only regret i have !!)

 

I did 2 years at uni, then my placement year at work.

They offered me a job running the department I was working in, and I slowly moved up doing more and more from there. I had intended to finish the course part-time, but that never happened.

I was really pleased with how things had turned out, until about 7 years later, they closed the factory and kicked us all out. For a while I was shitting it and looking at the other people around me now looking for work who did have degrees and thought I would struggle.

Luckily, one of our suppliers had seen me for what I can do, not what I look like on paper, and hired me.

So, I would get the degree. I was lucky, you may not be. I had around six months of not knowing what would happen and even though I was still working, it was much stress...

 

personally i would finish uni and then go for a job

 

Id finish it dude, i graduated year before last and although its frustrating at times not having any dough (i had to sell my series 2 and 205 gti to get by!) the sense of achievement you get when you go to that graduation ceremony is the bollocks, plus the fact nowadays employers arent so much (to a degree) interested in WHAT degree you have, its just that you HAVE one, it says a lot about the type of person you are... Its also gives you much more choice within the job market..