Dublin. Just a tad closer :laughing:

I passed my 'A's a long time back and had the chance to go to Uni, but I decided to fuck my life up and go backpacking instead...best thing I ever did.

Yeah, I think all this pressure to go to college or university is stupid. It just doesn't suit some people. YOu can't go to college and learn how to be an amazing carpenter, you need a master of sorts. It suits me, but I know so many people who would actually be better off not going onto 3rd level, and just do what they like instead.

I do regret not going though, only I know I would have messed up somewhere along the line anyways. It's a recurring theme in my life that I seem to have little control over.
My wife went to Lancaster and came away with an English degree and she earns more than I do now as a Librarian.
So I often wonder how things would have turned out for me...having said that I wouldn't change a thing. Travelling was the time of my life and I would have regretted not doing that for sure.

Yeah, in the the words of Silverchair "Mistakes Don't Mean a thing if you don't regret them" People always go on about how they wish they could go back in time to change some things they did in the past, but who knows how many good things came out of that one bad decision? Every cloud has a silver lining, and sometimes the lining is pretty damn thick.

I agree that the government should work towards encouraging apprenticeships, recreate a guild system and make it clear that craftwork and less acumen requiring jobs are equally viable. Frankly, I think a Uni is right up my street. That said I'm not going to "better myself", I'm going to be a manwhore and get drunk every night ;)


Oh, and to complain about debt.

Just go backpacking instead...it's the same as manwhoring and getting drunk every night without the hassle of studying. ;)

Speaking of which, I hear debts of around £32,000 are normal for a Uni stint these days...

I dont think i'll ever be the "uni" type. Sure in 3 years i'll have a diploma in photojournalism, but it's not exactly a very taxing program. Plus, I have a very strong feeling that I'll never really settle down into living in the real world. Most likely I'll graduate and then just continue traveling and skiing, only i'll probably be able to get a few higher paying jobs that are a bit more fun and interesting than working retail or waiting tables.

I want to go right away so as to get it out of the way.... I know what I want to do, biology, so aside from the inevitable major change, I'm not too worrried about what I'm doing. ;)
I'm also going to be renting a house with two girls from my hometown, too, so that's definitely good incentive right there. :D

I'm thinking that if I go right away, I can graduate young (22-23) and still enjoy travelling, but with a degree in my pocket and without university looming over my head!

I can imagine mate, I wish I'd done something first. I'm definitely going to try and go after University.

And it must be said, theres hundreds of people out there with degrees that have far worse jobs than people who have no degree and went straight into employment.

In many cases experiance will beat a qualification.

And it might just be me, but I'm finding first year at Uni dead boring.