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If you had the opportunity (perhaps through some kind of witchcraft) to return to university now, in 2022, completely free of charge, to retrain for a new career direction of your choosing, what would you choose to pursue?
What would you study in order to leave university and get a job with the highest possible salary?
What would you study in order to leave university for employment with the highest possible job satisfaction and happiness?
Anyone with the same answer to both questions who made those choices the first time around has won...
What would you study in order to leave university and get a job with the highest possible salary?
What would you study in order to leave university for employment with the highest possible job satisfaction and happiness?
Anyone with the same answer to both questions who made those choices the first time around has won...
Sterillium said:
Hoofy said:
Psychology - to back up what I'm doing with a relevant degree. And no, I did maths.
I think that might be my answer to this question... I like to tell myself I should have gone to med school, but in reality, I probably couldn't hack it. 
"Mr Hoofy, please make the first incision... wake up!"
Not sure I agree with the premise here.
For a lot of jobs, what University degree you did doesn’t matter much, rather more what University you went to and what grade you got. It just shows an employer you are smart and can work hard when needed. What you then go on to achieve has even less to do with the subject.
I did Physics and the only bit I really use is the confidence to believe that all problems can be cracked with the right analysis (and a bit of patience!). That said, really grateful for the chance to study a subject I love and opened the door to a career I’ve enjoyed in and around Finance and Tech.
So no complaints here, would recommend doing a Physics degree to anyone who likes Physics…
For a lot of jobs, what University degree you did doesn’t matter much, rather more what University you went to and what grade you got. It just shows an employer you are smart and can work hard when needed. What you then go on to achieve has even less to do with the subject.
I did Physics and the only bit I really use is the confidence to believe that all problems can be cracked with the right analysis (and a bit of patience!). That said, really grateful for the chance to study a subject I love and opened the door to a career I’ve enjoyed in and around Finance and Tech.
So no complaints here, would recommend doing a Physics degree to anyone who likes Physics…
I'd probably go back and do architecture, whether I'd stick it is another thing. I work in the design industry and did a design degree but I was always good at drawing buildings and structures. Unfortunately I was a low B student in Maths, couldn't be arsed with further Maths and Physics I enjoyed but absolutely hated the practical work so it was never going to happen.
It's actually a strange one because one of my best friends was an A* student in Maths, Physics and Art and Design at A-Level. She signed up for Architecture and within a few months she was struggling and dropped out to do a teaching degree. Another mate was bang average but scraped into Architectural Technology then did his 3 RIBA courses and now works as a proper architect.
In terms of studying something for the maximum financial reward. Knowing people that did high flying courses like Law or Finance most a decade on are absolutely miserable. They are earning £80k+ a year but they have no time to enjoy it because they are always working. They get married and have kids but they have little or no family time it's a hellish existence and one I think they'll look back in later life and regret.
It's actually a strange one because one of my best friends was an A* student in Maths, Physics and Art and Design at A-Level. She signed up for Architecture and within a few months she was struggling and dropped out to do a teaching degree. Another mate was bang average but scraped into Architectural Technology then did his 3 RIBA courses and now works as a proper architect.
In terms of studying something for the maximum financial reward. Knowing people that did high flying courses like Law or Finance most a decade on are absolutely miserable. They are earning £80k+ a year but they have no time to enjoy it because they are always working. They get married and have kids but they have little or no family time it's a hellish existence and one I think they'll look back in later life and regret.
Edited by sutoka on Wednesday 10th August 06:33
Money: maths or economics. To go and get a job in the City.
Happiness: English. To become a journalist.
In both cases I agree that the institution counts for a lot.
(In reality I read Politics and then went into law, but made non-financially driven decisions - didn’t work in the City, now work in-house. A kind of worst of all worlds..!)
Happiness: English. To become a journalist.
In both cases I agree that the institution counts for a lot.
(In reality I read Politics and then went into law, but made non-financially driven decisions - didn’t work in the City, now work in-house. A kind of worst of all worlds..!)
I didn’t go to university. I didn’t even sit any GCSEs, predominantly because I was a thicko who struggled to even write my own name.
But if through witchcraft, I did posses a crumb of intelligence and could do it all again, I’d study something like social studies and go and ‘work’ for a local authority, kissing ass and back stabbing my way to the top.
edited to add:
Actually, to be serious, I’d have studied horology.
But if through witchcraft, I did posses a crumb of intelligence and could do it all again, I’d study something like social studies and go and ‘work’ for a local authority, kissing ass and back stabbing my way to the top.
edited to add:
Actually, to be serious, I’d have studied horology.
I did economics at a good uni but never went into the city which in hindsight is the reason to do an economics degree so missed opportunity
Maybe I’d go and do something in the built environment to become a QS and work on something tangible and real.
Tech/software would in hindsight have been the most lucrative route but not sure my brain is wired that way, it doesn’t come easily.
If money was never a consideration I would have done geography and then bummed around the world writing a travel blog.
Hindsight’s a wonderful thing….
Maybe I’d go and do something in the built environment to become a QS and work on something tangible and real.
Tech/software would in hindsight have been the most lucrative route but not sure my brain is wired that way, it doesn’t come easily.
If money was never a consideration I would have done geography and then bummed around the world writing a travel blog.
Hindsight’s a wonderful thing….
Babber101 said:
Hindsight’s a wonderful thing….
Part of that is not actually knowing what you'll be into in 30 years' time! I am doing stuff that's vaguely related to my interests at the time but not something I would have thought to do a degree in, and if I'd done a relevant degree, I'd probably end up doing something completely unrelated, never have been fed up with corporate life and then do what I'm doing now!Sterillium said:
If you had the opportunity (perhaps through some kind of witchcraft) to return to university now, in 2022, completely free of charge, to retrain for a new career direction of your choosing, what would you choose to pursue?
engineering, probably in continuum mechanics. I am a ballistic scientist, an engineer working in the same project on same grade earn about 20% more with less qualification.Sterillium said:
What would you study in order to leave university and get a job with the highest possible salary?
Highest possible salary might be risk management in finance sector, few friends work in investment bank earn big money, but it is a viper pit and they sold their life for work.Sterillium said:
What would you study in order to leave university for employment with the highest possible job satisfaction and happiness?
difficult choice, I have most satisfication working in my current job, but I am not too happy about the earning. If I study engineering instead, I might not be able to work in my current industry and I probably would not pursuit the PhD.Sterillium said:
Anyone with the same answer to both questions who made those choices the first time around has won...
I think this is just part of growing up, looking back and regretting that I made wrong decision or wrong choice, then when I grow older I will look back and think I might not live the life (That I am satisfy) I have now if I make those choice.
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