He's now working as a stone mason and loves it !
I don't know what to do with myself....
I have been in education since i was 5, have now nearly finished my masters degree, just 2 more months or so and it will be all over!
now i don't know what to do in terms of a job, i deffo don't want to carry on with my degree, am sick of being a scientist. I want to do
something more hands on, will be moving back up north closer to my family etc so it would be hard to get a job in oceanography anyway not that their
are many vacancies!
so the reason i post this is to ask what would other people do? i have a vague idea about becoming a paramedic, that stems from a course i did in
first aid in my first year of uni, the guy who did it really made me think that i want to do this. but then most of my education for the last four
years would be pretty useless.
I could do something else but i am not sure what, any ideas anyone?
people are always asking me what i want to do and now that time is close i really don't know!
cheers
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My mate is doctor of biochemistry, he used to design drugs
He's now working as a stone mason and loves it !
coastal lifeguard!!
You could help stop in the influx of Polish workers by taking up one of the many bus driving jobs
yeah there are so many polish people in southampton now, about 15% of the population i believe, it gets irritating having to explain to them how to use football coupons though, (my part time job is at ladbrokes) they don't speak much english!
I've got a BA in Computer Science from Merton College, Oxford. I'm currently temping for £6 per hour while I apply to the RAF as a pilot.
Seriously though, looks like you are destined to be a paramedic...bloody good choice too if you ask me!
quote:My wife did Geography as a degree and she's an accountant so go figure!!
i have a vague idea about becoming a paramedic, that stems from a course i did in first aid in my first year of uni, the guy who did it really made me think that i want to do this. but then most of my education for the last four years would be pretty useless.
tescos are always after shelf stackers
What were your degrees in - both in oceanography? Do you have any associated skills - computer programming / modelling? Or do you want to be out in
the open air?
Has your uni got a guidance counsellor you could speak to? They might be a useful port of call.
Not to increase any pressure on you, but try and make sure that you go into something you really want to do. I see loads of CVs each year, and ones
that have career changes every year - 3 years tend to put me off. Once you've come up with some ideas, try and go and see local business /
organisations in the business you can talk to about what they do - they also might be able to give you pointers for part-time courses that would help
or maybe some contacts.
Maybe even try and get some work experience with them - even a week might be useful. As it's coming to the end of the financial year, a lot of
companies will be busy and might like an extra pair of hands. You might end up doing something crap for a week, but talking to people doing the job is
probably way better than researching it on the net or something......
Hope this helps,
Vince
my degree is a four year course the first three years of which were a bsc in oceanography, but i didn't graduate and i carried on to do an Msci
in oceanography this means i get a student loan for the fourth year as well. This confuses people, but i find it easier to say i have a masters as
thats what it is as we work alongside all the Msc students.
my main prob is what to do, i am really taken with being a paramedic, though it will take awhile, if i am lucky i will be taken on as an ambulence
technition so can do that for a few years and then train to be a paramedic, or sigh, do another degree somewhere else
i do have expreience in modelling and computer programming to some extend though the programming language we were taught was fortran, not many
aplications for that outside of scientists!
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my partner (gf) has a degree in media and now work as a tv set designer.
strange as she wanted to work in a photo lab ?
mind you how did i come to own a computer shop ? i was a slaes rep, its strange how life works isnt it.
I would recommend that you get a job - any job - as having some form of work experience on your CV is so much better than time on the dole.
My son left college a few years back, and did all sorts of part-time and menial jobs rather than sit around all day. This had 2 benefits - first, he
earned enough money to have a social life, and second, when he finally got a 'proper job' they asked about his work record and were
impressed with his attitude.
well i was hoping to transfer up with ladbrokes as its a good job in some respects, you have to be on the ball as people get pissed if you don't
get thier bets on and you also learn to calm people down as when they think you are cheating them of money they get abit irrate. Have had people throw
stools at the tv screens etc before now.
am hoping the interaction with people would help towards working in the ambulence service, but i prob won't be able to transfer as there
aren't many labrooke shops up north, not like in southampton at least and my fiance also works for ladbrookes so only one of us would prob be
able to transfer!
My sister did oceanography at Southampton, she's much brighter than me, but the boredom got to her. I really had to push her into finishing the
course as her enthusiasm wained big time.
She's now "training" to be an accountant. It wasn't the study that got to her, it was she was studying something that didn't
interest her.
i have found it pretty boring too, there is so much reading and writing involved, bearing in mind before this i did three A levels in maths, physics
and chemistry where complete sentences were not nescessary.
I did and still do like the subject tho so i have kept at it and will have a 2:1 masters and oceanography (hopefully)
My mate graduated as a chemical engineer and his first job...a buyer for Thorn EMI !
I would like to be a ambulance driver but I'm not sure how much qualifications I'd need.
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
I would like to be a ambulance driver but I'm not sure how much qualifications I'd need.
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Originally posted by iank
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
I would like to be a ambulance driver but I'm not sure how much qualifications I'd need.
Google delivers
http://www.eastanglianambulance.com/content/recruitment/faq.asp
I doubt the requirements in whippy world are much different. (though fitting the ambulance with spoilers is probably frowned upon
its not too difficult to be come an driver, i am hoping to become an ambulence tech who supports the paramedic, they have have intensive training
before they start etc, you only need a levels i think i am certainly qualified enough.
then after a few years you can train to become a paramedic, i am hoping to do this, am getting more into it now. have done some reasearch, getting
into the helicoptor crews would be pretty cool!
is there anyone on here who is an paramedic? would be cool to have a chat etc
yikes look at the wages
I thought they got rather more than that. I'd still be interested though.
so tell me , why would you go to uni for all that time , study your prefered subject
and then want to do something totaly different
yeah I thought you where going to be captain nemo
don't tell me you get sea sick!
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Very few people end up doing what they studied.
Even fewer are glad they did!!!
I have a BEng in Agricultural Engineering (really mech eng with some agri flavour) and have since worked as a steel sales account manager, steelmill
planner, steelmill continuous improvement engineer and now a Tier 1 Automotive CI engineer..................................
I'd rather work doing something for myself, and to be honest I'd go back to the job I did for many years in my school and uni hols, tractor
driver, if the money were better!!!
I have no idea what "ultimate job I want" other than it woudn't be working for someone else!
I loved driving the buses, even the school ones. Great fun and a huge responsibility but the wages were just not on.
Now back in an office fighting computers and crappy systems, sole destroying.
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Originally posted by NS Dev
Very few people end up doing what they studied.
Even fewer are glad they did!!!
...
Time for a beer.
My Nephew, did some sort of degree at Southampton Chemistry with slant on the Environment. He was always up to his armpits in a river somewhere
scooping up freshwater snails for his thesis.
Be is now a Policeman in Southampton, and Loves it. It wont be long before he is earning much more than me, especially if he passes his Sgt's
exams.
i did a degree in biochemistry and now fit kitchens. Wouldnt change a thing, i love being able to confuse people with odd trivia 
If you end up near leeds and fancy some proper trade work, i'll give you a job. Im looking for an extra pair of hands, no training necessary!
Surrey Satellites in Guildford were recruiting. Amongst other projects they were looking to launch geo-stationary satellites to predict weather across
the oceans. Don't know if they are still pursuing that one but strikes me there's lots off synergy as far as your Masters is concerned.
Cheers, Pewe
Why not take some time out while you work out what you want to do in the long-term? Take a gap-year and travel, getting part time jobs to pay as you
go. Or go and do some charity work. Or (perhaps aligned to your degrees) how about learning to dive and then doing marine conservation somewhere
tropical? Loads of interesting possibilities... damn, I'm feeling jealous already
Cheers
Richard
yeah i wanted to do the marine tropical thing during the summers, but i have no money so had to work my ass off just to be able to afford uni, am
still well into my overdraft tho 
never mind will be ok some day!!
30K a year sounds like quite alot to me, am still really tempted with the paramedic direction but i guess i should see whats out there!!
would love to travel the world once i got some money together but made the mistake of getting engaged, have to save up for the wedding now!!
there are some good ideas though, thanks very much everyone
hmmmmm tempting, but i love her.
strange i know at 21 to get married but i met her in college at 16, were really good friends in the first and second year then went out towards the
end of the second year and then spent three years in a long term relationship, me here in southampton and her in sheffield both at uni. We got thro
that and have spent about 8 months living together and its all going well, at least from my point of view!
we got offically engaged a few months ago, am pleased, getting married on the 29th of feb, only have to remember an wedding annervery every four
years!
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Originally posted by trogdor
... getting married on the 29th of feb, only have to remember an wedding annervery every four years!
hehehehe yeah its not really true, my fiance really liked the date, more than me maybe!
the idea is that the three years inbetween we go out for a meal etc but on the actual anniversary we do something special, for instance on our first
wedding anniversity it will be the 2012 olyimpics in london so that is our first big thing! is strange to think we will hcould be married 40 years but
will only of had 10 anniversities!
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that does sound good.... and really tempting want out of this country so much. the wedding is already booked i'm afraid! it is actually official,
we are getting married in a stately home that is owned by the council back home, went there lots as a kid, big playground there and golf course and
childrens zoo etc, lots of childhood memory for both of us there! and the hall is gorgous, had never been inside it.
it was meant to be a simple wedding, has snowballed abit since then. but we are keeping costs down, hopefully!
would deffo come out to cyrpus at some point and give you a hand, would love to go to another country, haven't really been abroad, only to Kenya
which was amazing!
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Originally posted by CaLviNx
quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
I would like to be a ambulance driver but I'm not sure how much qualifications I'd need.
Why didn't you ask my wife the other night then, with her being a paramedic !!!!
wages for a paramedic can reach 30k
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didn't occur to me at the time. Well at least I know who to ask for pointers 
yeah its one of the reasons i am thinking about it, the job is never really gonna be dull, and it gets you out and about, and its not like you would
ever be made redundant. well maybe if they had to many i guess. I also like it because you feel like you are actually doing something with your life
that is worthwhile.
should really get back to my nitrate modelling but really can't be bothered with it!
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I had looked at joining the police but they seemed rather interested in all my speeding fines and collection of parking tickets
I even sat the airforce exam (got a simply superb technical score!, what did the examiner say oh yeah ‘that’s the highest score we’ve seen in quite
some time’ ) and nearly joined as a airframe technician but then got offered an interesting design job. Regret it now why didn't I join pah!
now I'm to old!!! 34!?! that's not old
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not at all, my dad has recently started his own business, and hes over 50! is driving all the country running it too, does about 1000 miles a week.
I would want my own business one day but i am not sure what.....
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Originally posted by nige
so tell me , why would you go to uni for all that time , study your prefered subject
and then want to do something totaly different
that was it really, i didn't know what i wanted to do, i think my parents wanted me to do some sort of engineering but in the end i went for
oceanography as its an science degree which is useful. but an unusual one.
my new direction to become a paramedic only started in my first year with a vague idea and now recently when i realised i need to get a job!