What do you work as?

[mycarsavw]

Yeah, near Sevenoaks. We don't have anything right at this moment as one of the old members of staff has just come back in for the summer, but when he's back off to Uni we probably will.

Depending on the industry, think of me...

[Rev_Hill]

Lead Siebel Developer for European Investment Bank.

REV

[fat jez]

Systems Engineer for a Telecoms supplier. Sun Servers, veritas volume management, databases, networking and telecoms stuff. Started off as a Graduate Trainee for Orange in their Bristol offices, ironically I now work for the company who supplies the systems I used to support there!

Cheers,
Stephen

[IBM]

Director of two UK Limited companies. And now full time sales person from our new showroom. Fun.

[dave87]

As a practice manager / head of finance in a Law firm I can highly recommend you start thinking about doing something else

Heh, not straight from my degree. Wanted to do something I enjoyed from my degree, then do a Post Grad in what I wanted to then work as. Anyway, according to the Times at least, the big London Firms are beginning to look further afield than their traditional stomping grounds, and into the areas of History & Science for the next generation.

At worst, this degree leaves me reasonably educated with a variety opportunities, at best, it gives me a jump up the ladder in some sector I may want to work in. At the end of the day, a degree isn't there to get you a job, it's there to show you have a range of skills, and allow you to explore a topic you are interested in. If that is Law, then good for you, but you don't see Newspapers turning away Eng Lit students because they didn't study Journalism do you?

Not trying to dispute that you may have a different opinion and that I'm still (like many others) facing an uphill struggle in a sea of graduates, but I would rather do this, something I enjoy, than do something I hate, just for marginally improved job prospects. I would also suggest, that if you dismiss an application solely on the basis that they studied a topic other than Buisness Finance or Law as their main degree (ie someone had done the Conversion Course for Law), then you are missing out on some of the brighter students. A family friend finished her degree, did the conversion course, and was snapped up by one of the big London firms to go work in the Czech Republic. She faced no ill effects due to not studying Law as her main degree.

[mycarsavw]

Heh, not straight from my degree. Wanted to do something I enjoyed from my degree, then do a Post Grad in what I wanted to then work as. Anyway, according to the Times at least, the big London Firms are beginning to look further afield than their traditional stomping grounds, and into the areas of History & Science for the next generation.

At worst, this degree leaves me reasonably educated with a variety opportunities, at best, it gives me a jump up the ladder in some sector I may want to work in. At the end of the day, a degree isn't there to get you a job, it's there to show you have a range of skills, and allow you to explore a topic you are interested in. If that is Law, then good for you, but you don't see Newspapers turning away Eng Lit students because they didn't study Journalism do you?

Not trying to dispute that you may have a different opinion and that I'm still (like many others) facing an uphill struggle in a sea of graduates, but I would rather do this, something I enjoy, than do something I hate, just for marginally improved job prospects. I would also suggest, that if you dismiss an application solely on the basis that they studied a topic other than Buisness Finance or Law as their main degree (ie someone had done the Conversion Course for Law), then you are missing out on some of the brighter students. A family friend finished her degree, did the conversion course, and was snapped up by one of the big London firms to go work in the Czech Republic. She faced no ill effects due to not studying Law as her main degree.

Very eloquent, what I meant was, it's dull as heck

[dave87]

Very eloquent, what I meant was, it's dull as heck

Ahhh, misunderstood what you meant.

I was aiming to combine the two, something like Corporate Law, as I wouldn't be too good a barrister, or end up in Investment Banking/Fund Management. All have decent pay and working conditions, but all have long hours and for me, an hour+ commute. As they say, nothing in this life is free.

What do you hope to shift to? What sort of practice do you work in? Feel free to move this to PM if you don't want to discuss it here.

[finlay666]

Interesting combination... Going to be working for Rockstar when you graduate then?

Funny you should say that lol

I am intending to apply to them for my year in industry (Rockstar North in Edin, family lives there so I can bunk with them till I get my own place lol) aswell as a few local places to me, need to work on making my own engine and good and finished 2d games over summer before I start 3d and working on the gamecube dev kits next year at uni


And the butcher is more of a part time thing between uni, started working there since I was 16 (3 years now ) part time through high school/college and holidays from uni (still have 2 records at work.....longest lie in to be late and earliest in....11am today and 3:30am on crimbo eve last year lol) and basically been trained (albeit VERY slowly) as I go, don't get to roll joints , but I can do the other stuff like trimming large bits down like fillets and doing chickens to get the breasts & legs off as well as possible

ICT technician for a small middle school (we still have them...) in Northumberland.

Up towards Amble way as opposed to Hexham I would assume

[Whiternoise]

Another boring student here..

Maths (done yay!), Further Maths, Chemistry, Physics, Computing AS (done and left in the dust)..

GAH now i have to think about universities, just went to the Imperial open day yesterday - that was fun - i now realise that because as my GCSE's aren't all A*s, i haven't a hope in hell of getting in (Physics MSci)

[mycarsavw]

Ahhh, misunderstood what you meant.

I was aiming to combine the two, something like Corporate Law, as I wouldn't be too good a barrister, or end up in Investment Banking/Fund Management. All have decent pay and working conditions, but all have long hours and for me, an hour+ commute. As they say, nothing in this life is free.

What do you hope to shift to? What sort of practice do you work in? Feel free to move this to PM if you don't want to discuss it here.

Shift to? - Retirement Only <mumbles> 35ish odd years to go. I'm looking, but in no hurry to change direction completely, trouble is, after 10 years it's tricky.

Practice? - Smallish, two partner, 5 fee earner firm. No litigation or criminal but everything else.

London is the place to work if you want the cash, but the trade off is, as you say, time spent travelling. For me, time away from home isn't worth the extra money to me at the moment, with a young family, time with them is top priority.

[BlackDwarf]

Doing temp work at the moment.

I've done everything from delivering beer, worked at a sawmill (not for long. note to everyone else. don't.), worked for a fire and flood restoration company, and am currently my own arch nemesis, being a white-van-man


Edit: Before looking like a loser, I was a trained IT tech at a number of schools, but am going to do a Degree in Professional Musicmanship at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music later on this year

[Nemeliza]

Just finished my degree (last exam was a month ago)

Starting job as IT Technical Consultant in September.

[malfunction]

Working as a telecoms consultant (network performance monitoring / management) for a large IT company. Odd hours, lots of solo travel, solo work and politics. Preferred working as a code monkey, may go back one day when I can't hack it any more...

[shelley bda]

I work in a Pre-School with Children from the age of 2 up to 5, hoping to start my SENCO ( Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator ) training in September and i'm running a 4's alone Pre-School session in September for Children who are in their last term with us so they can get used to a more structured learning programme ready for Reception. I'm also doing Makaton training soon, teaching Special Needs Children language and literacy through symbols and hand signals.

[b0redom]

Freelance UNIX (various flavours) / VMware infrastructure geek for big corporates.

[doddsy]

I don't work at all, just finished uni and I'm currently looking for a job.