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sweet



I'm planning on getting a good degree and then pissing off to Canada or Brazil or something. Use the degree to get decently/average paid jobs but move about a lot. Dunno how viable that idea is. Plan needs refining but I don't want to stay in this country the rest of my life pursuing a career that drives me up the wall and end up with a mid life crisis before my suicide at 63, that's for sure.

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Yeah I'm thinking about doing my time in the NHS once I qualify, then moving abroad for a bit, maybe to New Zealand or the US. Don't think I could deal with the changes that're coming up in the NHS for more than a few years

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Being multilingual will help too I hope





The amount of people in my 6th form who are applying for medicine is ridiculous. And most are asian too. That stereotype is true

lol shut up

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do you actually have nothing better to do



you're almost as bad as neutralthunder

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"And most are asian too. That stereotype is true"



There's a few on our course, but no more than other ethnic minorities.

his name is progmaster you fucking idiot

show him respect he's your superior

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thank god you're taking the piss cos even you're not dumb enough to believe that

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Couple of my friends are doing medicine, damn I really couldn't stomach that career direction. They're in their third year of it now so from what I gather, it's getting ridiculously busy. Not unexpected I guess though.

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What actually motivates so many people to do it?

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It's a highly respectable and well-paid profession?

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it's not that well paid til you progress higher up though



just seems like there's better/less competitive options as far as money goes

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The same could be said for almost any job though, wouldn't you agree? Teachers starting salaries aren't that good but they rise annually and can end up being pretty respectable, especially if you get promoted to head of department or further.

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people don't flock to become teachers though



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gldDq6QfIfs

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Hahah fuck you my sister is an English teacher. That said, she didn't even consider going into the education field until around the time of her graduation.



I think the spread of people aspiring to be doctors and teachers is pretty even.

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I have not met a single person going into uni who does so intending to pursue a career in education later.



But maybe that's just the kind of people I have around me.

"it's not that well paid til you progress higher up though

just seems like there's better/less competitive options as far as money goes"
Depending on where you are and what exactly you're doing. Same goes for teachers.
Being a teacher here is rarely a good job. Hours suck, preparation is a lot, pay is only good if you're teach at a private school, the 3rd and highest school system here or exceptional schools. Also, where I live we have way too many of 'em, granted - new ones - a lot incompetent or hardly bringing our education any further but still.

Medicine is a bust. Just like law. I'm one of those crazies who wants to do either the latter or (some sort of) psychology.

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I think people just go in with the intention of grabbing a degree in their strongest subject and not really thinking about future employability. I mean, I'm currently studying a BA with honours in History, wtf can I get out of that? The teaching option is quite attractive for the solid financial platform you get from it. Before I switched degrees I was majoring in French and the possibilities of 'where can it actually go?' outside of teaching/translating are quite thin

Good thing is some of that stuff that's a fucking bust you at least have good job chances because of the multitudes of possibilities. Even internationally, especially considering Western countries.

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degrees don't have to be vocational to be useful though