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[cpjeeves]

I've got 3 years left..maybe, depends if I change my mind again (started with arts/psych, now doing diped). It's going to be so weird when i finally finish, after being a student for so long.
Man, thinking about this is making me look foward to the july holidays even more (uni holidays+my birthday+queens of the stone age= me happy)

 

[doe]

Well if i follow my recommended program of study correctly, i should finish at the end of 2007.

But if i decide to go on exchange, i'll hav to add on at least another semester...

go on exchange, whats the rush? i didnt finish till i was 24/25, which maybe was a bit too long, but if you finish aged 23/24 i dont think it matters too much. what sucked for me was 90% of my friends were all working, i was always the broke uni student. take your time and enjoy it. i left late and ive still got a good 40 years to work.

if i hadn't screwed around more in the first few years, i couldve done more phil units. the girls were cuter and more numerous than in comp.

 

[fornstar]

im hoping 2 b out by end of 2007

but i want 2 go on exchange, so i dont noe if ill have 2 stay back a lil after that

 

[AcStyle*]

go on exchange, whats the rush? i didnt finish till i was 24/25, which maybe was a bit too long, but if you finish aged 23/24 i dont think it matters too much. what sucked for me was 90% of my friends were all working, i was always the broke uni student. take your time and enjoy it. i left late and ive still got a good 40 years to work.

if i hadn't screwed around more in the first few years, i couldve done more phil units. the girls were cuter and more numerous than in comp.

Well i'm pretty sure i'm gonna go on exchange neway, after all it's not often that you're given a few grand to go overseas!

 

[bscienceboi]

You shouldn't worry how long you have to spend in Uni for your degree. Don't be tempted to choose and decide a pathway that allows you to finish your degree early so you can leave University as soon as possible.

If you decide not to do honours/masters when you have the oppurtunity then that is your loss and a terrible blow to take on yourself. Anyone can get a degree and you have to differentiate yourself so that you stand out and achieve not only your maximum potential but also the potential to have a job you are more content with.

 

[doe]

doing a masters with no experience is folly, unless its in a different field.

 

[xeuyrawp]

doing a masters with no experience is folly, unless its in a different field.

From observation, masters are useful in a few areas. I've seen a lot of succesful solicitors with them- just go to any large firm's website and you can look through the people.

Academics, of course... Teachers and uni tutors/lecturers.

In IT they're also useful, my brother's nearly at the end of his, and apparently they add a lot of market value...

I guess they're useful when they provide practical experience- learning any law will be practical for a lawyer, as will learning about teaching and IT to an IT person... Maybe a lot of subject's masters aren't practical? I've heard a fair bnit of criticism that a lot of MBAs now are becoming impractical.

 

[doe]

the key is "with no experience"

after you have a few years experience it does make sense, more $, more opportunities. but doing one straight out of uni is kind of foolish.

as a generalisation, if you have an undergrad and masters and youve never worked in IT, you get put in the overqualified bin.

exceptions would be psychology (perhaps) where i think you need a masters to practice (or the course at mq involves completing a masters) law, where academics are respected, or academics.

law is a funny one. in most other fields (as a generalisation) academics are those who couldnt or didnt want to work in the real world, but in law they are more respected.

 

[xeuyrawp]

the key is "with no experience"

after you have a few years experience it does make sense, more $, more opportunities. but doing one straight out of uni is kind of foolish.

as a generalisation, if you have an undergrad and masters and youve never worked in IT, you get put in the overqualified bin.

exceptions would be psychology (perhaps) where i think you need a masters to practice (or the course at mq involves completing a masters) law, where academics are respected, or academics.

law is a funny one. in most other fields (as a generalisation) academics are those who couldnt or didnt want to work in the real world, but in law they are more respected.

All of what you say is right. Also to add to the Psych = you need a qualification, you do to be a Chiropractor, as well. But yes, I'd always favour someone that has proven experience over someone that has severl degrees. I mean, a degree just shows you can study well in the general direction of your field.

 

[bscienceboi]

You also need A Masters in Chiro to practice. (What ever it may be they do)

 

[doe]

this girl i went to high school with did psychology or chiropractosity (or whatever they call it). one of the ones that needs a masters. she was saying that the UK dont recognise the qualification, so after five years of uni she was kinda screwed for working over there. ive met more than one taxi driver who has some crazy engineering degree from a foreign uni but found it wasnt recognised in australia. that sortof stuff would suck.

 

[roger321]

hmm i think if she did chiro, all she needed to do in the UK/USA is to sit a test run by the registry, which (if she passes) means her degree is recognised.