degrees worth less than toilet paper... (1 Viewer)

[disorient]

anyone got any sad sad stories of ppl who lug their asses to uni for years..whack up a massive hecs debt ...only to graduate and not be able to land a job even if their lives depended on it?

 

[nwatts]

i have a feeling one of my degrees will serve such a fitting future

 

[disorient]

same...im so doomed...i have to stay back next yr and do my DISHONOURS YR ...lol this sem was supposed to be my last ..but damn the cookies didnt crumble my way!

 

[synthesized]

is it the result of choices you made or poor luck? or are you aiming too high for a 'prestigious' company? i'm not being arsey, i'm just curious.

 

[turtleface]

theres still plenty of jobs (good jobs too) that are open.

For instance, the ASIC one closes...today.

http://www.asic.gov.au/asic/asic.nsf/byheadline/National+graduate+program?openDocument

 

[disorient]

is it the result of choices you made or poor luck? or are you aiming too high for a 'prestigious' company? i'm not being arsey, i'm just curious.

ok...u got me...POOR choices my dear ...

 

[SpLaTHoWA]

<== me

 

[disorient]

<== me

whats ur story splathowa?

 

[stalon001]

I m the 1- live example , did my software engineering from UTS, now changing ma career into commerce. Well there'r lots of issues involved, but still no1 to b blamed except me . Loking fora happy ending this time around.

 

[SpLaTHoWA]

nothing, just was jobless with commerce, mostly cos i did half assed applications for graduate positions cos i didnt really wanna work anyway lol

 

[scarybunny]

Isn't it commonly written above toilet paper in uni "BA. Take one"?

They are pretty worthless by themselves, but a good option if you're unsure what you want to do, or got a crap UAI and are willing to work hard for a year/semester so you can transfer into something else.

 

[ur_inner_child]

B Music @ USYD

Think about it.

=no job

 

[turtleface]

a lot of jobs advertise for staff with a "tertiary qualification", so thats where some of those degrees can come in.

I'm sure things like a BA isn't completely useless

and you can always do a grad dip of education to go teach, or a JD to become a lawyer or something like that.

 

[velox]

Even history and geography grads get jobs in front office IB. (but that's in england, and those grads are from oxbridge lol)

 

[phrred]

Heaps of high profile people have BAs

 

[disorient]

nothing, just was jobless with commerce, mostly cos i did half assed applications for graduate positions cos i didnt really wanna work anyway lol

did u have shoddy grades? lol

 

[SpLaTHoWA]

wasnt that bad...
70 something avg
didnt fail anything at least

i did get up to partner interview stage in a late intake PWC app, but i guess im just not outgoing nuff + lacked the CA LEGT subjects... and as for the main round intakes... well... my application form answers were honest to god very shit compared with what i did for the late PWC app... so yeh