Who's the 5punk Old Fart??

shot2bits · Post by **shot2bits** » January 10th, 2006, 18:37

i am 15, and there was me also thinking i was the youngest spaz, guess i dont get to do the young person dance now

i suppose i was the youngest at the lan, and do i get a prize for having the most hair?

cashy · Post by **cashy** » January 10th, 2006, 19:05

bomberesque wrote: (don't become an architect, they're rubbish.)

fucking this! after weeks of digging a footing for a garage he turns up today after the base is dug, runs down the road measuring how big the cars are and puts another 4 foot onto the size! fucking pricks!

Bazzle · Post by **Bazzle** » January 11th, 2006, 8:25

bomberesque wrote:
Having been 15 for a year, i can't recommend it. It's the age when you are at school and you suddenly realise for the first time how easy you've had it up to that point.
M8; after 14, it just doesn't stop getting harder...

-You will sweat through 7-9 years of exam study (see caveat about pissing it all up against the wall at uni, below), possibly more if you want to be something silly like a doctor or an architect (don't become an architect, they're rubbish.)

-You will join 000's of others looking for a "fresh Graduate" job that will pay nob all for the first 4 years but you will enjoy because you will be full of beans and ideas how you and your peers will change the way buisnesses are run forever. Perhaps by wearing jeans with a suit jacket, I don't know.

-During this time you will spend *all* of your money on rent, booze and clothes.

-You will give this stupid dream up after 6-8 years when you realise that arsehole middle managers are simply a fact of life and settle into some serious money earning, becoming a fully paid up member of the "he who dies with the most stuff wins" club, possibly as an arsehole middle manager, although this is not fated only probable.

-This will carry on until you are 60 (see caveat about having kids, below)

....until you retire to find out that your mutual funds are worth fuckall^0.5 and the state pension even less. But it won't matter coz you will have a wonderful spouse and a cheap lifestyle, having spent the previous 40 years styudying every possible meaning of the phrase "living within your means".Unless you had kids, in which case it will keep hurting untill you die.
That said; Uni is as easy or as hard as you make it. Go on, piss 4 years up against the wall. So long as you pass it's OK. *No-one* after your first job will ever ask for the grade, unless you went to some super-brainy uni where you will probably study for 4 years straight in any case. I just use mine to get work visas in foreign countries these days.

I'm 36. Bloody kids today

/me waves walking stick in vaguely threatening manner

Well, I'm acually 19 and a university student and I have been told just what you have so succinctly layed down before. Thus I have a solution!

I am going to become a professional student and or a lecturer!

Uni for life and endless partying!

W00T

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » January 11th, 2006, 8:58

That's some funny (yet alarmingly useful) advice you posted there Bombereque

I think I mentioned at the all you can eat Chinese at the LAN, that basically University and all that bollocks is a complete and utter waste of time unless you wish to become a professional in something.

My suggestion is to just get out there, and get as much money/experience as you can, and change job every so many years always trying to go upwards with your salary.

Post by **Joose** » January 11th, 2006, 10:43

Woo Elephant Yeah wrote: I think I mentioned at the all you can eat Chinese at the LAN, that basically University and all that bollocks is a complete and utter waste of time unless you wish to become a professional in something.

My suggestion is to just get out there, and get as much money/experience as you can, and change job every so many years always trying to go upwards with your salary.

I dont know about that. My sister used to work in environmental health, but was stuck at the "Rat catcher" level (the inspector type peope), basically because she didnt have the right degree. She gave that up to travel the world, came back, and decided to be a teacher. So she's needed to do teacher training (basically a mini-degree).

Also, in the unlikely event that you are a natural at your chosen subject, like a couple of guys off my uni course, you can go out getting pissed every night for three years, still get a first, and come out of uni with people falling over themselves to give you a really well paid job. Bastards.

It all depends on the course you do, how well you do at it, and the kind of work you want to do when you've finished.

bomberesque · Post by **bomberesque** » January 11th, 2006, 11:34

University Degree = Primary requirement for work visas in interesting places ('specially Asia). Don't recall them ever being picky about what the degree is in and a mate of mine got away with an OND in Singapore because the requirement was actually "proof of tertiary education", which apparently an OND is.

Don't miss out on Uni, it's too much fun. I'm pretty sure I had a shit time compared to most of my compatriots and I certainly think it was worth it.

I know loads of people who have retrained as teachers (my wife is one). It's a very cool way to change careers mid swim ... so long as you can stand to be around kids. Uni lecturer is quite good as often you only need the degree you're studying to be technically qualified to teach it. I am led to believe that the money can suck a bit though.

Planning a life as a professional student / university lecturer FTW!

Altervatively, marry a professional, move to a country where your inability to speak the language means you can't find a job, then spend all day playing EVE ... Like me