College or get a job

[lewis_lsi]

hey guys.

i no this is RELE off topic but i fort i could rely on you guys for some decent advice.

im at college atm doing business studies and finance. im in my second yr, so i finish this summer.
only thing is that im rele not enjoying it. this yr iv got rele far behind and got work pilled up, n im gona have to work my ars off to get it all dun.

because i rele aint enjoying college, quitting and getting a job doing plumbing or electrician or somin coz its quite good money over here. well any job that i can get reasonably far in and earn a good wage.

please give me your forts guys. will be much appreciated.
=)

[Matt.]

finish college, then get a job in your feild... you'll be happy you did. No one really enjoys school.

[CMRdevelopment]

finish college, then get a job in your feild... you'll be happy you did. No one really enjoys school.

:word: just stick with it. it will pay off in the end. wished i was able to finish off my last 2 years in college but the issue of me being broke and cant afford it came in lol.

[Beelzebubba]

Crap....you are in the UK. :what: I don't know how your labor unions work.

A friend of mine signed on with the IBEW. He had to do crap grunt work for crap money as an apprentice for a couple of years and go to their school at night. After about 5 years he made Journeyman and started collecting decent wages.

Mind you, he did have to go to their night school and they don't pay crap to first year apprentices.

I was a plumber's apprentice for a summer. Fuck that. I could probably get hired by a Rooter company and make okay money but there's just way too much shit and filth. Plumbing work is a lot of cleaning drains and digging.

[xxsenceo89x]

dont take as many classes and get a job

[Jbuck2KCivic]

College, you'll be better off in the long run.

[neoc03]

You don't want to be working outside all the time. Been there done that got my ass in school and now I got an office. It really pays off in the winter and summer.

[dank24]

finish college, then get a job in your feild... you'll be happy you did. No one really enjoys school.

I love school

[lewis_lsi]

cheerz guys. i have been doin a lot of work lately. I fink the main reason y i havent been doin the work is cus i lost motivation.
iv got a part time job rite now earning £140 ($290) a week so that gets me buy quite well.
yh the fing that got me into college 1st was cus before i got my part time job i was working with my dad on weekends. hes a panel beater, and doin that 5 days a week 9 hrs a day rele take the toll on him.

yh i gues if i fink about it, finish college get rele good pay job, MO MONEY FOR MY CIVIC haha

[Black99CivicSi]

I am going to school to be an electrician.. i wanna do Lineman work, they get paid hella cash :D, yeah but stay in school fo sho, if you don't like what your majoring in now switch to something that might interst you.

[Suanico]

be a real man and get a job and stay in college

[Civic11]

no job = money
no school =no booty*

PICK ONE OR PICK BOTH:lol:



*easiest place to get laid is school. Good Luck

[Genuine Rolla]

finish college, then get a job in your feild... you'll be happy you did. No one really enjoys school.

:werd:


Would you really want to be a plummer for the rest of your life..?

[Akiahara96]

college ftw.

[cgpEJ6]

go to college

[Astheros]

go to college and take a couple english writing courses :lol:
but for real...go to college.

[HiPWR Racing]

ya i was gonna say by the looks of his grammar he needs to stay in skool hahaha

[StylinSir]

Def College.. in the long run it will pay off. you may hate it now. but its def better in the long run.

[lewis_lsi]

Ok for the grammer freeks here, im wrting this properly HAPPY lol. Thanks for the comments guys. College work just is so boring, id must rather be working on my hatch lol.
hmmmm college = booooty mmmmmm haha

[Beelzebubba]

Well, I went to college to drink and get laid....had to drop out 'cause I wasn't making enough beer money. :lol:

[Beelzebubba]

I am going to school to be an electrician.. i wanna do Lineman work, they get paid hella cash :D, yeah but stay in school fo sho, if you don't like what your majoring in now switch to something that might interst you.

Apprenticeship FTW.

http://www.ibew.org/union/index.htm

[Silver Bullet]

stay in school...best thing u could do..with knowledge comes power

[CivicKid95]

school will get you more money in the end. I'd say pick something that you like to make it, as well as your future, more enjoyable.

[Rawkout]

man school is good. in my program im doing a co-op for 2 semisters and it basically pays for tuition. not bad eh?;)

[Black99CivicSi]

Apprenticeship FTW.

http://www.ibew.org/union/index.htm

Thanks Beelze, Yeah I have been hearing that the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is a good place to get on and be a apprentice, i heard they make good money :cool: (don't really know why I spelled out IBEW,lol) Hey you said your friend is an apprentice, (not to be noisey) but does he get paid pretty good? I will finish college in like 3 semester's(hopefully) and will probably be heading into the IBEW, thanks and btw sorry to jack your thread

[Beelzebubba]

Thanks Beelze, Yeah I have been hearing that the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is a good place to get on and be a apprentice, i heard they make good money :cool: (don't really know why I spelled out IBEW,lol) Hey you said your friend is an apprentice, (not to be noisey) but does he get paid pretty good? I will finish college in like 3 semester's(hopefully) and will probably be heading into the IBEW, thanks and btw sorry to jack your thread

First year apprentices get shitty jobs and make shitty money.

I guess it's kind of a test because if you stick it out it gets pretty good. A 4th year apprentice is for all purpose and intent a journeyman electrician. You are doing real electrical work by then mostly unsupervised.
(4th year was making $18-21hr a few years back)
But if you've already got the education they may just make you a Journeyman right off :what:

I actually have a couple of friends that went through the apprenticeship. One of them left the union, got his contractors license, and is self-employed. He cleared about $65,000 after taxes and expenses last year. Not too terrible at all IMO.

[el_betiyo]

stay in school!!!!!!!!

[joe7987]

If you're not having a good time, it's probably because you picked one of the dullest majors out there. I don't think I've ever met a business major who enjoyed school.

I'm a psych major and love the hell out of it. I'm not saying you should be a psych major. I'm just saying that you should pick something that interests you. Remember, what you go to college for is what you're probably going to try to do for the rest of your life. If you can't stand it, your future doesnt look too good.

Find something you love (hell, go to an automotive school if nothing else.)

[JohnS.]

College. But make sure you thoroughly research colleges before you pick one. A lot of people make the mistake of spending tons of money going to a university then end up transferring to a local community college or going somewhere cheaper.

But go to college.

IMHO, not going to college isn't bad either. My buddy stopped school after he graduated high school. He has a full time job on top of owning a few of his own businesses (welding, snow plowing) and makes great money. He lives in his own apartment, has a new brand new 06 or 07 Chevy ($30,000+ truck), his own skid steer (the smaller caterpillar heavy machinery you see used at construction sites), etc. He's only 20.

Obviously without a college education, he might not make much more than he is now in his lifetime but he lives comfortably and is happy. Stressed every now and then since he works a lot but still lives comfortably. Still has side money to spend, etc.

[FRODO]

I got to school M-F 9-12 and go to work Thr-Mon 1-10pm Try getting the best of both worlds.

[dank24]

I go to school Tuesday 8am-5:30pm, Thur-fri 6am-1pm. Plus I work 5days a week, but I make my own hours.

[joe7987]

For the record, you're not guaranteed to make more money if you go to college.

I know my Mom didnt go.. she's making about 120k a year. My Dad went, but is doing something completely unrelated to his degree and is making about 100k a year. My Uncle dropped out and is making 200-300k a year.

If you're lucky, you can still do things without going to college, but I wouldnt recommend it. That's one hell of a risk.

[JohnS.]

For the record, you're not guaranteed to make more money if you go to college.

I know my Mom didnt go.. she's making about 120k a year. My Dad went, but is doing something completely unrelated to his degree and is making about 100k a year. My Uncle dropped out and is making 200-300k a year.

If you're lucky, you can still do things without going to college, but I wouldnt recommend it. That's one hell of a risk.

Exactly.

My brother went straight to work @ 18. He didn't even have a degree yet but started out @ 50k a year when he got his first actual full time job working with computers when he was only 21 or so. But then again, he had a lot of connections at the time and got EXTREMELY lucky with getting that position. Now he's going to school and working and will probably be able to make more later on.

[clover ej6]

Yeah def a good idea to stay in school

I fucked up my first semester of a 4 year so i had to go to community college and that was a joke, so pretty much to make a long story short I'm going to school for Automotive Tech and damn happy I decided to do it.

Find something you enjoy and could do for the rest of your life and you're golden

[lewis_lsi]

thanks for the comments guys. think this is a pretty general thread to most people on here lol.
BTW when i say college i dont mean university. i mean college in UK terms if you understand me lol.
yeah iv decided to stay, and this week iv got a lot of work done and trying to get bk in line with my work.
Its not necessarily the course i dont like. the thing that pisses me off is our shity time tables. they change like every term (simester; im sure thats spelt wrong) and a lot of days a finish like 4.30-5
at my part-time job im working Mon-Thurs 5-8pm and Sat 8am-4pm
so most college days i go in at 9 and then have to go straight to work, not getting home till 8.15pm.
only good thing is i dont work or go college fridays.

im hanging in there. The dream of swaping my d15 to H22 and boosting is keeping me going

Update on my car. right now iv been painting my mirrors and my side skirts silver and also painting some interior parts Red to match the 2000 Civic type R seats i should be getting soon.

cheerz again

[lewis_lsi]

after college the plan was to get a job as a accountant; start out as a trainee etc.
but having the knowledge from my course of running a business; making business plans, cash flow diagrams etc, i was finking recently i could build up my own business. As iv painted my own parts on my car, i could start out doing that. i no some of my mates would want stuff painted. An idea of mine. My dad works as a car panel beater and painting, so i no a bit and he can show me more. what you think?