[Nicola_Red]

I have an OND, a HND and a BA (Hons) and I'd love a MA to complete the set, so If anyone is gonna give Red £35 grand, can I have the same?

I did my MA part time whilst working full time, it only cost about 4 grand and I got some of it back as a bursary from my uni. Not so bad.

[Ballbag]

£35 grand is alot for a Phd, I thought of doing one, and probably will one day, but I got too good a job offer when I left Uni.

One day though I'll be Dr Ballbag.

[catherine]

Well it would stop me for even a crappy job in a newsagents really, my sister's girlfriend's mom employs people in asda and they are recuiting at the moment and she said she will look out for my application. So fingers crossed.

[Nicola_Red]

£35 grand is alot for a Phd, I thought of doing one, and probably will one day, but I got too good a job offer when I left Uni.

One day though I'll be Dr Ballbag.

The actual course costs about 3 grand - it's just how to support yourself whilst doing it. I did my MA whilst working full time and I don't think I could do a phD the same way, it would kill me, so I need some funding. I also really want to be Dr Red.

[Ballbag]

mom

Please tell me that was a type-o.

[catherine]

Sorry i spell it how i say it but i do know the correct spelling is mum.

[Ballbag]

I will try the working full-time Phd approach I think....... I couldn't go back to Uni full time.

[Nicola_Red]

I'd love to. Nothing I would like more than to quit full time work and start hanging about in dusty libraries and spending rainy afternoons writing essays at home with a cup of tea and a packet of biscuits to help me along. I feel like my brain is slowly melting without study. But in the absence of any funding I may have to go the part time route, cos I can't carry on like this forever.

[Boboff]

I liked A Levels they were fun, I got History B, English D, and maths E, the jump to getting Certified as an Accountant was huge for the Final Year only, that was really hard work, and all pointless as you forget it all straight away, but remember where to find it again.

i have handed in my notice at work, and I am planning on going into teaching, or something, after having a year out, at home with the family. Sod It, I've earn't it, and that dodgy Endownment I was missold in the early nineties is going to keep me in Beer !

[MK Chris]

You're qualified as an accountant after getting an E in maths?

[foot-loose]

i have handed in my notice at work, and I am planning on going into teaching, or something, after having a year out, at home with the family. Sod It, I've earn't it, and that dodgy Endownment I was missold in the early nineties is going to keep me in Beer !

But I thought you were a self employed fudge packer?

[Boboff]

yes bizarre isn't it.
I am very good at Logic, and numbers, Statistics ( not by Baggies or consoles standards you understand, but I have a good feel for numbers )etc, but I hated Pure maths. So I knew I would suffer in the Exam for Pure, but then they wanted to prove the Normal Distributuin Equation in the Stats paper, which I couldn't !

It's all such a long time ago now.

Believe it or not with Spreadsheets and computers, accountants don't really have to be that good at Maths, I can use a Printer Adding Machine like a Concert pianist, but that's not really a boast as people stopped using them 10 years ago ! Formula in spreadhseets are a bit more accessible with A Level knowledge.

[DemonHorse]

This does pose the question of how far qualifications actually get you. I went to a 7-years on sixthform mini-reunion recently, and of the people there, people like me who worked fairly hard but not too hard and didn't get straight A grades (I got a B in Eng Lit and a whole bunch of high Cs) did better than those who worked their a**es off and got straight As. For instance one particular guy went to uni, suceeded and got his degree, but is now a mid-level manager of a local supermarket, which is a place he's worked at since he was at school (on and off while at Uni). This compared to a guy like me who got good consistent grades and is now a teacher, or myself who took a few other courses in IT and excelled at them and now I've been a Technical Support agent for 16 months.

[Boboff]

i have handed in my notice at work, and I am planning on going into teaching, or something, after having a year out, at home with the family. Sod It, I've earn't it, and that dodgy Endownment I was missold in the early nineties is going to keep me in Beer !

But I thought you were a self employed fudge packer?

I run a business that makes and packs fudge, but due to me being crap at that we "sold" [for free] the business, and I am now a mere employee, or not, as soon will be the case.

I agree with Demon chap, my grades were rubbish, but I was always destined to run my own business, and generally to make money, which I have ! I did relish telling my head of sixth form who was the business studies teacher, when he questioned me why I hadn't taken the subject at A-Level, those that can do, those that can't Teach.

Given my aspirations I have now found out I would rather not do, as it's hard, and I'll try to Teach it instead.... My only other choice is to become a Business Link Advisor !

[timp]

I too have just taken my ASs. I did French, Latin, Biology and Maths.

[MK Chris]

I too have just taken it up the ASs.

Bobofftastic.

[Yudster]

Eclectic mix there Timp. Did you choose subjects to study for the love of learning, or do you have a specific future in mind?

[timp]

No specific future, and thats clever editing worthy of Boboff, Topher. It is a good mix. Means you dont get bored as often.

[Yudster]

Latin is an interesting choice. Surely that must be just for the love of the subject, unless you want to have a career teaching Latin to other people, its not going to be any practical use! I love the idea of study for the sake of study, learning for love of the subject. I think more people should do it. After all, almost all graduates end up in teaching sooner or later it seems, so it doesn't really matter what you study, as long as you pass!

No, I'm not being entirely serious.

[timp]

learning for love of the subject. I

Yeah that and there are 3 of us in the class, including me, the others being girls.

[MK Chris]

...so not 'that' at all then?

[timp]

nah latin's alright!

[Nicola_Red]

Latin is useful if you're a gardener. Or a Roman.

My dad tried to persuade me to learn it to help him with his family history business. Unsurprisingly I wasn't keen.