Call Centre Work

[Tokyo-Saint]

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[Tokyo-Saint]

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[Tokyo-Saint]

Sorry guys.

 

My stalker alarm hit code red there. Managed to turn it off now.

[SuperMikey]

but I was right in thinking that at the time you were considering leaving Uni it was to go into local radio.

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?33823-Dropping-Out/page2&highlight=anthropology#.UjLuRtKpWSo

 

[Bearsy]

i would listen the shit out of SuperMikey local radio show! I think it would be v.good radio show.

[Tokyo-Saint]

Maybe he could combine it with the call centre work and have phone guests on like Turkish. Trying to sort out Turkish's overdraft while getting little jibes about not being fashionable and stuff.

[holepuncture]

I don't particularly think scraping low thirds in an Anthropology degree could be described as grace. I'm much happier even working at One Stop than I was studying at Uni.

 

Fair enough, but I do wonder whether you will hold that mindset in ten years time.

 

You could have had it all.

[Glasgow_Saint]

Fair enough, but I do wonder whether you will hold that mindset in ten years time.

 

You could have had it all.

 

still could

[Window Cleaner]

Fair enough, but I do wonder whether you will hold that mindset in ten years time.

 

You could have had it all.

 

And if you should fall, remember you almost had it all.... Elkie Brooks, still it's the Uni system's fault really, they accept people who are just not academic into their sorcerer's illusion. Make's them waste years of their life and then end up in any employment they can find.

Edited 13 September, 2013 by Window Cleaner

[CB Saint]

Fair enough, but I do wonder whether you will hold that mindset in ten years time.

 

You could have had it all.

 

What it this "all" of which you speak that a 3rd class Anthropolgy degree can get you?

 

Mikey, sounds like to me that you did the right thing and cut your losses. Three years of misery and thirty grand of debt is a high price to pay for a piece of paper that doesn't open doors quite like how it used to.

 

There are plently of professions that will take non-grads. Consider recruitment, especially if you are an outgoing type. If you can sell you can make decent money and most companies don't give a monkies about your qualifications or lack of. They are also recruiting like billyho at the moment. Expect basic in the £18k region and OTE of mid twenties in the first year. Upwards there after. if you are good (and work bl oody hard) you can earn big money (six figures) in a few years.

 

Otherwise if you have a head for numbers, you can go into the bean counting profession. It is possible to get qualified without a degree. Damn sight more work and less paid than recruitment tho

[Turkish]

 

You have all this to look forward to supermikey.

 

"Smile as you dial"

Edited 13 September, 2013 by Turkish

[Window Cleaner]

 

You have all this to look forward to supermikey.

 

"Smile as you dial"

 

 

Taffs will do anything to get recruits for the Valley Choir

[Jonnyboy]

I've got a degree and earn f all. My mate dropped out, started at Southampton airport and is now earning tax free megabucks as an airvtrafgic controller in Dubai. Still he can't have a doobie and listen to Mikey on the radio like me.

[holepuncture]

And if you should fall, remember you almost had it all.... Elkie Brooks, still it's the Uni system's fault really, they accept people who are just not academic into their sorcerer's illusion. Make's them waste years of their life and then end up in any employment they can find.

 

What it this "all" of which you speak that a 3rd class Anthropolgy degree can get you?

 

Mikey, sounds like to me that you did the right thing and cut your losses. Three years of misery and thirty grand of debt is a high price to pay for a piece of paper that doesn't open doors quite like how it used to.

 

Well, getting a 3rd class degree I completely agree.. Anyone who gets a 3rd clearly isnt up to the standard or is addicted to something.

 

In fact, having a 3rd is possibly worse than having no degree at all, but IIRC super mikey was in his first year or something and had every opportunity to turn his fortunes around.

 

But you talk about opening doors and the (lack of) doors opening to graduates today over the past. Yes it is true, however without that degree you wont even get the opportunity to even knock on that door these days.

 

Super mikey has been led down a very dark path by some on this forum and it will cost him for the rest of his days.

[Window Cleaner]

Well, getting a 3rd class degree I completely agree.. Anyone who gets a 3rd clearly isnt up to the standard or is addicted to something.

 

In fact, having a 3rd is possibly worse than having no degree at all, but IIRC super mikey was in his first year or something and had every opportunity to turn his fortunes around.

 

But you talk about opening doors and the (lack of) doors opening to graduates today over the past. Yes it is true, however without that degree you wont even get the opportunity to even knock on that door these days.

 

Super mikey has been led down a very dark path by some on this forum and it will cost him for the rest of his days.

 

You certainly told him not to jack it in at the time to be sure, as did others, can't remember if I proferred advice at all but would have certainly been extremely sceptic at the idea of Bournemouth having a University worthy of the name, it's a tech college as are many others that mascarade as Universities nowadays. There are always rough patches in your time at Uni for varying reasons, lack of money being the principal one in my case but you just have to gut it out because if you don't you'll probably quit just about any other role you'll have in life every time the going gets a bit tough.

Edited 13 September, 2013 by Window Cleaner

[Window Cleaner]

I've got a degree and earn f all. My mate dropped out, started at Southampton airport and is now earning tax free megabucks as an airvtrafgic controller in Dubai. Still he can't have a doobie and listen to Mikey on the radio like me.

 

works with Eric then ? Perhaps he is Eric although he's from oop north somewhere.

I thought you dropped out after a year or did you go back and finish ?

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?33823-Dropping-Out/page2&highlight=anthropology#.UjMiv9KpWSp

Edited 13 September, 2013 by Window Cleaner

[Turkish]

I've got a degree and earn f all. My mate dropped out, started at Southampton airport and is now earning tax free megabucks as an airvtrafgic controller in Dubai. Still he can't have a doobie and listen to Mikey on the radio like me.

 

attitude and aptitude = altitude.

[Minty]

My mate dropped out, started at Southampton airport and is now earning tax free megabucks as an airvtrafgic controller in Dubai.

 

When did he start at Southampton Airport? I may have worked with him...

[Turkish]

When did he start at Southampton Airport? I may have worked with him...

 

I always thought you looked and acted like cabin crew.

[Minty]

I always thought you looked and acted like cabin crew.

 

Must be all the make-up I wear...

[Turkish]

Must be all the make-up I wear...

 

When i saw your picture it did look like you had guyliner on.

[Minty]

You seem to be forgetting that I was actually a 'jizz-mopping mong', not cabin crew.

[SuperMikey]

Well, getting a 3rd class degree I completely agree.. Anyone who gets a 3rd clearly isnt up to the standard or is addicted to something.

 

In fact, having a 3rd is possibly worse than having no degree at all, but IIRC super mikey was in his first year or something and had every opportunity to turn his fortunes around.

 

But you talk about opening doors and the (lack of) doors opening to graduates today over the past. Yes it is true, however without that degree you wont even get the opportunity to even knock on that door these days.

 

Super mikey has been led down a very dark path by some on this forum and it will cost him for the rest of his days.

 

I dropped out having failed my second year, which would have meant having to retake the year plus and then do my third year - all for a sh!t degree. It was making me miserable putting in all the work, hours of reading, staying up all night writing essays and not seeing my family or friends for weeks on end only to get 41%. Don't think i'm cut out for academic study, although i'm thinking of doing an OU course once i've got myself a decent job that I could make a career of. Made the right choice for me at the time, and I don't regret it.

[Window Cleaner]

I dropped out having failed my second year, which would have meant having to retake the year plus and then do my third year - all for a sh!t degree. It was making me miserable putting in all the work, hours of reading, staying up all night writing essays and not seeing my family or friends for weeks on end only to get 41%. Don't think i'm cut out for academic study, although i'm thinking of doing an OU course once i've got myself a decent job that I could make a career of. Made the right choice for me at the time, and I don't regret it.

 

So in fact you took his (and others) advice at the time and it did not turn out to be productive because the old thread finished in or around November 2011.

[Sheaf Saint]

I dropped out having failed my second year, which would have meant having to retake the year plus and then do my third year - all for a sh!t degree. It was making me miserable putting in all the work, hours of reading, staying up all night writing essays and not seeing my family or friends for weeks on end only to get 41%. Don't think i'm cut out for academic study, although i'm thinking of doing an OU course once i've got myself a decent job that I could make a career of. Made the right choice for me at the time, and I don't regret it.

 

I can recommend studying with the OU very much. I'm on track to do a part-time degree with them at the moment (completed my 120 credits at level 1 and just about to start my first level 2 module) and the standard of delivery of their modules is excellent. If you passed your first year at uni then you should be able to put the credits you got for that towards an OU qualification.

[Jonnyboy]

works with Eric then ? Perhaps he is Eric although he's from oop north somewhere.

I thought you dropped out after a year or did you go back and finish ?

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?33823-Dropping-Out/page2&highlight=anthropology#.UjMiv9KpWSp

 

When did he start at Southampton Airport? I may have worked with him...

 

I better not embarrass him, you saw my picture Mikey posted right?

 

attitude and aptitude = altitude.

 

Very true Mr Adkins, but I'm more about depth

[SuperMikey]

So in fact you took his (and others) advice at the time and it did not turn out to be productive because the old thread finished in or around November 2011.

 

Talked it through with my parents, and we agreed to re-evaluate at the end of the academic year. When I got the results through I immediately made up my mind.

[St.JonB]

This is a strange thread; analysing someone’s life to date! Maybe we could do this with other users, looking at their life choices and evaluating where they are. I would volunteer but I think I might be found wanting! In answer to your question SuperMikey I worked in a call centre after travelling and did not find it too bad to begin with. Keep looking around though as it is not a job most people can stick with for over a year.