Help please guys. I need your thoughts and your experience/opinions always mean a lot to me...
Basically my decision is this...I can either go to uni this sept with like ?1000 in the account or I can carry on working doing a job I just started which I really really enjoy (doing delivery rounds at a place thats a converted RAF site....driving around and stuff all day)...which i could continue to do for another 12 months
The decisions tearing me up, I aint gonna get laid in the middle of the countryside living with my parents, but if i worked I could seriously put aside like 8000? for next year.....its such a hard decision and id love your thoughts.....btw...i get on excellently with my colleagues up there and everyones really good fun....i get to wear what i want, have a brand new van and get loads of exercise...if i leave then id have to get a job at uni which i "probably" wouldnt enjoy
Well, sir, you should stick at your job. It's earning you good money, it's earning you good experience. And university is *not* what it's cracked up to be anymore ...
Your point about getting laid is well taken though ... but are you sure you're not going to get laid because you live with your parents, or are you not going to get laid for other reasons? Nature will find a way, and if there's a jolly girl wanting to lay you then I'm sure there'll be a way to make it happen ...
Given the way our glorious government has demolished higher education to such a point that it's worthless, then a decent well-paying job where you have a chance to learn a useful skill (that can't be outcourced to Bangalore, Manila or Beijing) is far more useful than wasting three/four years to "learn" about the media, politics, sociology, psychology or any one of the hundreds of other useless subjects masquerading as an education these days.
a) Yes, you'd be in a better position with your uni place on hold for a year and considerably more dosh in yer pocket - though this may affect grant/loan eligibility (I think?).
b) Fuck the van, fuck the money, and go now. You know you want to.
If you have a job you genuinely enjoy then you are a lucky man. "If it ain't broke don't fix it" is a pretty good adage. I'd stick around for a year if it was me.
Just think...all the great looking girls who go to University this year will still be there next year in the second year of their studies and you will be starting with another intake in 2005 of whom a fair number may also be favourable to one's eye!
A nice lump sum in the bank is also a very good thing.
personally I would wait and get as much cash together as possibe as the debts will be steep. It took me ten years to pay of mine and that was before tution fees.
Make sure the course is definately going to lead to a decent job otherwise you could find yourself stuck in a debt trap with little or no chance of getting a house.
Also I would strongly recommend finding a course that has a 'year out' so you can work in your chosen field which really helps getting a job (much more so than a first class degree say). Plus it helps with cash/debts.
finally i'm not too sure how the loans scheme works now but if it's going to be means tested on what you have in the bank, give it to your folks and get them to pay you back over the period of the course.
hope this is some help, good luck
ps. it's also a fucking good laff
we are Leeds.... , and we can still beat the mighty Chester
