HIgh School/College Student, I'd say I'm enjoying it but I'm more overworked now that I was when I was doing my exams since I have to prepare for university applications and my driving tests within only 2 weeks of summer since I'm away for 3 weeks this year and there's a whole bunch of other stuff I want to do like sorting out my room, cleaning out my computers and generally lazing around. [/rant] All that said I'm looking forwards to Uni in two years time (presuming I get in obviously, hopefully they don't have any questions aboout the JCR in their interviews ) and next year should be a bit easier.
No offence, but in many ways, that kind of a naive point of view. Sure, look forward to uni. It's great - the best decision I ever made was to go to uni instead of starting work after school... but don't assume that things are going to get easier for you when you get there. I thought that for a year and got a big surprise. It all depends on what you study, whether you will have to work whilst you're there and a hundred other factors, but if it turns out anything like my time at uni has so far, you'll be sat in a few years time wondering where all the rest of the students find the time to go out and party 3 or 4 times a week. More often than not, the answer lies in the fact that they are studying throwaway degrees or non-vocational degrees with about 9 hours of lecture time per week, and that Mummy and Daddy or even the SLC are paying the bills
Another internet high 5! Manager at McDs was one of the best jobs I ever had. Passed my MDP course top of the class too. I still have the certificate somewhere. I sell LEDs on ebay and a website, I was self employed, now I am employed by phenoptix LTD. I'm not sure where I end and phenoptix starts though, which is the main downside to running your own business. Apart from that it's great. Work with my brother who packs the orders, I reply to emails and spend time trying to drum up business, which is an excellent excuse to mess around on forums. BTW uni is great, I spent 9 years at uni, worked very hard and partied even harder
I never said uni wasn't great, I'm just pointing out that some people think going to uni is going to make their life easier and that it'll get even easier as time goes on. I thought exactly the same thing at 17/18. By the time I'd hit 20 I knew I was completely wrong. Like I said before, it depends on what you study and what your circumstances are. For some, uni is a holiday and they get "a" qualification at the end of it and some get a large chunk of debt with a side of unemployment too. For others, it's anything north of 4 years of hard work, dedication and sacrifices and at the end of it (hopefully) they have exactly the degree they wanted, good job prospects and have learned several valuable life lessons, the big one being that they should have paid attention in school when teachers told them uni wasn't going to be a pushover. I've found that people I have worked with in the past who never went to uni had a certain attitude towards not me in particular, but the whole concept of university. They think it's a holiday for those who are there and that it's not worth the money or the effort to get a degree. They have jobs and that's all that matters to them, no matter what it is or how they got it. They assume that every student is out partying every other night of the week and that they have about 10 hours of lectures every week. When I come across someone with that attitude, I soon put them straight. I tell them that I've had as many as 38 hours of lectures per week plus additional study time and asignments, and am a self employed engineer part time during the academic year and full time during the summer months. For some of them, that's about double the amount of time they spend in their full time jobs per week. So I'm just saying, some people enjoy a few years of partying and studying whilst they are at uni and some people can't afford the time or money to do so. Givent the fact that he's looking forward to an easier time once he starts uni, if Ending Credits ends up in the latter category, he'll be bitterly disappointed.
I myself have learned a few lessons on life.. The problem is I am even more confused now than I ever was before. Sometimes I feel the need to do like 'dega and c-sniper and create a thread in the serious question to ask wtf is wrong with me
I don't think there's anything wrong with me per se, but I definately got a shock when I finished first year at uni and my workload doubled. I was like "Wut?". I don't mind admitting it - I've done a lot of growing up since then. I'm not going to give you my life story here but you see where I'm coming from. It's not all sunshine and roses, or in the case of university life - drinking and partying
Been a Butcher from the age of 15 in one form or another, but I'm studying advanced networking with messaging and security in my spare time. I consider myself very lucky really as they are both jobs I love and take pride in.
how did you cope with it ? Personally, it's been a #$% disaster and my grades are pathetic. There are some people who had a hard time like I did and managed to do well after a while but I don't know if I have it in me
I'm a software engineer. It's pretty cool, but working full time with shinies dampens the spirits when it comes to hobby computing. I'm getting more and more into more 'real world' bits outside of work these days.
Nice. Secretly I was hoping you would be making these since that's what I'll be spending hundreds of hours sat in front of... well, assuming it ever works long enough to be used.
At first, not well at all. I found that there weren't enough hours in the day to get everything done that I had to and everything that I wanted to. After months of that I pretty much had to give up some big stuff that at the time was pretty important to me (I mentioned sacrifices somewhere before). I stopped gaming at league level - mostly this involved stopping my attempt to try and get my old CSS clan back on its feet after a mass exit by our CL and deputy manager. I stopped going out and partying on a regular basis after first year, and started getting more sleep so I could get enough done in the day. It wouldn't have been uncommon for me to have sat up working all night without going to bed two nights out of the 5 days that I spent at uni each week. Other things suffered too. I had to quit one part time job and cut my freelance work way back half way through second year to make time for my studies. You get used to it though. Every hour of every day is precious when you lead a busy life - for me, there's no time for a couple of hours of gaming here and there in the evening. Sadly, there's often no time to see friends and family either. I really learned the importance of holidays at that time (around 20). Also, thank you oh great admin/moderator person for FINALLY changing the exclamation mark in the thread title to a question mark. It was annoying me greatly :/
