Finally £10500 and four years later,

[-Savage-]

I can add BSc after my name.

Results were supposed to be out on the 7th but have only just been given out on line now.

So I guess it means I'm not a student any more

Big bad world here I come.




Thanks to all on here who have given me help when I desperately needed it




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[Fisty]

Well done!

Masters next?

10.5k for a Bronze Swimming certificate is a bit steep tho
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[carlosthejack...]

Congrats matey, it's all downhill from now on...
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[Paulington]

Congratulations man. .

Give it 7 years and I'll be able to add FdSc, MbChB. .
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[The Original Muzza]

10.5k? Shame. I got a bargain on a BSc (Hons) this summer for free. They're practically giving them away, all I had to do was fill in four years of questionaires, play about with some drugs in a lab then write a long poem about it.

Uni was a stupid choice for me as I'm a hands on person, but I stuck with it despite wanting to quit after 3rd year (seemed silly to leave it out).
So now I'm ultimately applying for jobs I'm qualified for but don't want, and jobs I'd rather do over science but don't have experience. Woot.
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[DanceLikeAMon...]

Well done mate. Only 13 weeks until I'm finished (stupid 3 1/2 year course).


Don't actually get marks until March though.

[Frost]

Cool, what did you get? A Damien / Atilla / Desmond / Douglas ?

[warped one]

Congrats on been a Waiter for the rest of your life.
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[benjami]

[warped one]

Cheers mate, doing that confirmed my sexually as definately hetrosexual, doing a dude is just wrong.
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[benjami]

Yet you still got it up...

[warped one]

Aye because it had tit arse and a fanny.

Then told me afterwards it 'used' to be abloke.

If you see some of the munters round my way you'd understand that it was alot better looking than some ofthe actual true females lol.
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[WishayKillie]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Congrats. Welcome to the BSc club.
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[Skudd]

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[chris-red]

I dropped out of uni in my second year and am on more money than all but one of my friends with degrees. Infact over half of them are unemployed/on minimum wage.
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[crazymotorbik...]

Hey,

Congrats on the Bsc.

Such a shame that nearly every man and his dog has one these days and they are almost worthless. Nearly everyone i graduated with is working a minimum wage job(Pushing trolleys, flipping burgers etc); I hope you don't suffer the same.

It seems that experience counts for everything. Everyone wants experience but no one is willing to give those without it a chance. Its a catch 22.

I'm now working in a totally different job to that which i trained to do. I do earn good money but if i get the boot i'm more or less skilless having no experience in what i graduated in.

I just wish i'd done an apprenticeship now!!

Hope it all works out for you,
Cheers,
Shaun.

[The Original Muzza]

I've seen many decent waged (22k+), entry level jobs for those with BSc in various scientific disciplines so the "completely worthless" thing can just be ignored.
On the other hand, these jobs can be extremely competitive, particularly those which are not SPECIFIC to the science you studied.
Graduate schemes also quite competitive and since I slacked somewhat in semester 2 of honours, I didn't achieve the 2.1 minimum they require.

I have friends who done biomedical science (isn't that what you done?) which is apparently quite difficult to get a job in at the moment, so instead the best course of action is to apply for clinical, lab tech/asst and research jobs at entry level. In my area most of these fall within the 18-22k/year wage that the university said was a typical starter wage.

Of my friends with honours degrees:

Well paid engineer, graduated 2 years ago with a 2.1.
Excellent paid computer guy, graduated this summer with a 2.1.
Well paid oil scientist (last time I spoke to her anyway), graduated ~5 years ago in Forensic Science with Law (essentially the same basic course as I did, but with non-core chemistry modules replaced with 1 extra legal module each year. I replaced the non-core law based modules with extra chemistry) not sure on her classification but I think first class.
2 work at the same company after doing general computing BSc and get a decent salary around 20k-ish, though one is in a more senior position. Another one who done the same course spends all his time abroad seeing the world, and hasn't so much as tried to get a job at home.
1 works as a draughtsman earning just shy of 30k/year. Graduated about 4 years ago.

Another of my friends graduated without honours after 5 years (kept resitting a 2nd year module in maths!) in electrical engineering. He had to switch from BEng to BSc, but he now has a job as a project engineer earning 20k, which goes up to 25k next year.

Most of my non-higher educated friends are stuck in dead end jobs earning <20k/year (some on minimum wage in supermarkets or restaurants) with little chance of promotion in the next 10 years. One of them done a 4 year apprenticeship to get there as well, and has to work overtime nightshifts to support him and his pregnant fiancee. Another also has a young child and part-time partner earns 18k before overtime after 4 year apprenticeship as an electrical engineer (or something).

2 of my good friends and several acquaintances have very well paid jobs from offshore apprenticeships, and I can't say I don't regret not looking into this career when I was a young warthog.
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From then on, I and the bicycle feelings deeper.

[JonB]

[Frost]

The reason most people with degrees don't have decent jobs is that they didn't go to uni to get a specific job, but instead went there for the party lifestyle and studied some arts course.

I truely couldn't count how many people i know with english degrees currently working minimum wage jobs whilst considering going into teacher training. Those few that have actually tried to do so have been shocked to find out all the places are full from everybody else doing the same.

A Bsc really is worth more than a BA, the only problem is the expirence trap. This exists as most degrees are very easy to scraped through and get a 2:2 / 3rd. Companies hire one of these clueless people then either get rid of them, or spend an age training them up. As a result the next time they put out an ad for a job, they require expirence. Expect your first job to be crap and probably under paid, but once you have 12 months expirence things get a hell of a lot better.

My former flat mate graduated with a 2:1 in computer science a few months ago and it now on £28k a year.

[Clanger]