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If you could turn back the clock....

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  • #52
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    risteard7 wrote: »
    Sit my leaving cert again, and realise it is important. I was one of the "cool dudes" who laughed at the "nerds" listening in class, now there laughing at me!

    I said im not going to college no way! Sure I'll go working on a building site. Now where am I?

    IN THE FCUKIN GUTTER!! Thats where!

    A gutter with internet access? Ritzy!


  • #53
    Diapason
    Registered Users Posts: 452 ✭✭Diapason


    NoQuarter wrote: »
    Whats the career status now?? Is there money to be made and do you enjoy the job? Is the only viable route a PHD adn then years of working for feck all?

    Come to think of it, is there any job in Ireland where you go do your degree, and then get a well paid job straight from college with career progressions available?!!

    I didn't end up working in physics, but then again I never really intended to work in physics. I did the primary degree, decided I was never going to be good enough to do anything REALLY meaningful in TP, so I took the mathematical stuff and went into finance. At the time (14 years ago) that didn't make you a social pariah like it does now.

    (Incidentally, I'm one of those strange people who doesn't see college as a means of getting a job, more as a means of learning how to think and solve problems, so the TP degree never held me back. I genuinely don't understand why people think of college as a stepping stone to a specific job (outside of the obvious ones), but that's for another thread.)


  • #54
    NoQuarter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,632 ✭✭✭NoQuarter


    Diapason wrote: »
    I didn't end up working in physics, but then again I never really intended to work in physics. I did the primary degree, decided I was never going to be good enough to do anything REALLY meaningful in TP, so I took the mathematical stuff and went into finance. At the time (14 years ago) that didn't make you a social pariah like it does now.

    (Incidentally, I'm one of those strange people who doesn't see college as a means of getting a job, more as a means of learning how to think and solve problems, so the TP degree never held me back. I genuinely don't understand why people think of college as a stepping stone to a specific job (outside of the obvious ones), but that's for another thread.)

    Its actually finance where Im headed myself! Funds law is the goal.


  • #55
    Diapason
    Registered Users Posts: 452 ✭✭Diapason


    NoQuarter wrote: »
    Its actually finance where Im headed myself! Funds law is the goal.

    You're gold, then. Major growth area in the business! :)


  • #56
    NoQuarter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,632 ✭✭✭NoQuarter


    Diapason wrote: »
    You're gold, then. Major growth area in the business! :)

    Yep, Im looking good. Will still always wonder if I could have been the next Brian Cox though :D

    Although this thread has helped to ease my worries!


  • #57
    Fran1985
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭Fran1985


    Happy with the route i took. Love my job, wish it would pay better tho. I double job so that helps, but means LONG hours.

    Would love to go back to school just so i could stand up to teachers i was afraid of. Especially the one's that laughed and ridiculed me in front of the class when i told them i was goin to work in media. Here i am anyway, simple diploma in the back pocket doing what i've wanted to do


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