What qualifications are you working towards?

[adamcot]

my walk into the working world was all or nothing.. what i was trying to put across was that if you have a goal you want to reach and you know how to get tothat goal.. then good for you ( ie doing uni courses and so on)

but if you go to uni to come out with a micky mouse degree so to speak ( as many of my mates did) just so that they can stay in long term education then more fool you, hense me saying on paper a load of tosh as most of these type of people will not have a direction to follow...

i took the nothing tbh.. i left school with just grades up to 6th form... wanted to work... did most of my grades in house... but in terms of progression just existed for 4 years.. ticking over.., it only now that i really decided to better myself, ive moved to a new job... which up to now i feel is the worse decision ive ever made,,, hold my hands up, but i know i will get to where i want to be.. whatever it takes..

Agree with you entirely I know lots of people that only go to Uni because they think they have to be there or their parents have told them to go, and that really annoys me because im the poor sod who has to do projects with them, and they cant be arsed to do anything!

 

[Chas Uno]

you think you dont get experiance while doing a degree? we have one over on you lot, not only do we know what we're doing to a HIGH level but through the assignments and in some cases placements, we have experiance in the field too.

Yup! In my course it's about a 60/ 40 split between placements and academic studying. For my placements I have to complete approx. 2,100 practice hours over three years, experiencing a huge range of wards/ departments/ scenarios/ shift patterns and working in a variety of hospitals/ care settings throughout the Trust. The idea is we do the academic theory in University and then get to apply it in clinical practice settings. We need the academic theory to understand /analyse/ evaluate and plan healthcare and the clinical experience to know how to apply it.

I'm only just over 1.5 years away from completing the course!

 

[yknivag]

but if you go to uni to come out with a micky mouse degree so to speak ( as many of my mates did) just so that they can stay in long term education then more fool you, hense me saying on paper a load of tosh as most of these type of people will not have a direction to follow...

Well said that man!

Now someone tell the government and lets put an end to this "everyone must be qualified to degree level" nonesense which has led to the ever growing number of mickey mouse degrees being offered.

 

[yknivag]

Back to the original thread, I'm a graduate but still tend to agree with Steely. I've got more letters after my name than I've got in it but I'm earning significantly less (c. £10kpa) than some of my colleagues doing the same job, purely because I didn't work up steadily through the ranks, collecting pay rises as I went.

Chartered Engineer (CEng) Status

Me too, theoretically. Not working in the industry anymore though, so getting CPD is proving rather difficult. Trying to work out if I should just defect and do CITP instead.

Would really like to get back to proper engineering one day though, need to go and look at extending my MEng with an MSc/MPhil to update it a bit but it's soo expensive.

Currently trying to get work to cough up for ITSLM-SM, to upgrade the colour of my ITIL badge.

 

[mooshooh]

I left college, decided not to go to uni mainly because it didn't interest me and my parents offered to pay my fees if I went aswell. I struggle for jobs at the moment but i'm glad I didn't go to uni. Most of my mates who did the same course as me at college have come out of uni and can't get a job at all. For me i think it's going to be starting at the bottom and working my way there but studying in my own time to move with the job market. At the moment i'm working two jobs just so that I can stay in the industry rather than getting a dead end call centre job.

 

[M111CYY]

Well i have a BIIAB Level 2 and im waiting to go on an MSP course with work, and also need to contact some people through work to do an nvq. keep forgetting the website though

ATM im an Assistant manager in a convenience store on 13k a year

 

[Jamie]

i agree with ben.

i left school with only GCSE's

im 17 and earn over 19k a year. due to my SKILLS not the fact that my parents own the company (kay)

i worked my way up, i was tea bitch for ages, proved myself and got rewarded, and i REALLY enjoy my job, no two days are the same and theres always something to work towards

 

[Munkul]

i agree with ben.

i left school with only GCSE's

im 17 and earn over 19k a year. due to my SKILLS not the fact that my parents own the company (kay)

i worked my way up, i was tea bitch for ages, proved myself and got rewarded, and i REALLY enjoy my job, no two days are the same and theres always something to work towards

what do you do? im 2 years older and on less than half that

but then im still in 1st year....

 

[Jamie]

what do you do? im 2 years older and on less than half that

but then im still in 1st year....

Security - currently install systems but im training to be a mobile response officer and on my SIA course this week lol

 

[Munkul]

does that mean when i break into a warehouse, a silent alarm is set off and you arrive in a super quiet and fast car, then batter me with a baseball bat?

 

[Jamie]

does that mean when i break into a warehouse, a silent alarm is set off and you arrive in a super quiet and fast car, then batter me with a baseball bat?

ooohhh yeeaahhhh :devil:

 

[tozzleozzle]

i agree with ben.

i left school with only GCSE's

im 17 and earn over 19k a year. due to my SKILLS not the fact that my parents own the company (kay)

i worked my way up, i was tea bitch for ages, proved myself and got rewarded

haha ye and your dad owns the company


ye im doing sum construction thing my company make me go on every Tuesday its dead boring but hay i get a nice shiny qualification out of it

 

[Munkul]

ooohhh yeeaahhhh :devil:

thats not good

no really, are you allowed to use force?

 

[Jamie]

thats not good

no really, are you allowed to use force?

yes, "reasonable force" either a pre-emptive strike or if you enter my "personal space" and i can also arrest you, however, if i leave a mark. ABH, cuts and bruises make that GBH, i dont fancy prison

 

[Jamie]

haha ye and your dad owns the company


ye im doing sum construction thing my company make me go on every Tuesday its dead boring but hay i get a nice shiny qualification out of it

i put that in there

i also said how i DONT get special treatment because of it

 

[Munkul]

i put that in there

i also said how i DONT get special treatment because of it

bet you do


*cranks the handle*

 

[Jamie]

bet you do


*cranks the handle*

stop it you

 

[bludvl_x19]

B. Engineering (Product Design)

and a course in hard uni level drinking as well.

Michael

 

[daithi]

i'm at the end of my third year of a B.Sc (Hons) in General Nursing, just one more year to go. thankfully i get paid next year for my placements and should get about 17500 for the year.

 

[Chas Uno]

i'm at the end of my third year of a B.Sc (Hons) in General Nursing, just one more year to go. thankfully i get paid next year for my placements and should get about 17500 for the year.

Your Nursing course is four years? Is that full time or part time?

Mine is three years (BSc), though in total I will have trained for four as I had to do an 'Access to Nursing' course for year at college to get into University. The actual full time University course/ placements is only three.