General Chat

Are you coping ok? :-)

I didn't - and yes not doing bad :O))

me I'm far to thick...........only just started going GCSE at my age....

:))) I did go but as a mature part-time student - too late to do anything I might have wanted to do with a degree. But I've managed ok - have a very nice life:)

did you Anne............what did you study.....?

I was a homely girl, so no idid not, and i did not like School very much, but did ok for myself, have a good job alway's worked in Management so not bad pay, so yea do OK, but dont tell me Grandkids that as i would like them to experience Uni if they choose too PS did take qualifications later in life via my Job Lil

Hayley - no I didn't lol I just study life pmsl - only have CSEs and O levels lol - oh and Pitmans typing pmsl

me cos im fick hopefully my darlin gorgeous boy will though, he wants to go to uni

sorry Ann thats why I,m doing GCSE in English oh will never pass coz can't read......lol

No I did not go, I wonder how many people who did go to Uni actually end up doing a job that a) they wanted to do in the first place and b) required the degree. xxhugxx

Hayley - pmsl x

I didn't my sister did. I have grown up feeling very inferior because of it, but then I have 3 lovely children and she has none, me I'm more practical and she is more academic. Will never push my children into going if they want to thats fine if not thats fine too

Straight out of school with my 'o' level English Language and Literature, into nursing, had to pass entrance exam... Had ten wonderful nursing years before I got married..

I didn't go to uni, nor have I got any qualifications, yet I have done things, met people, been places that majority of people will never do. Unfortunately there was a price to pay finally and that is why I banged on about qualifications on the other thread.

No I didn't & have needed counselling ever since because I feel I was so deprived ! *Sobs into hanky* pmsl :0(( Joan

No I didn't, despite being in the top class at school & constantly being told I was throwing my life away! I could not run out of those school gates quick enough. Have since done some study but don't think I could commit to the standard that is needed for a degree. I have worked with lots of uni students & graduates over the years & have to say many come across as all brains & no common sense, maybe I have just been unlucky in meeting the wrong people!!

I didn't - had pressure put on me by parents not to go away from home. I really wanted to be an archaeologist or librarian and at the time I would have had to live away to do the degree. I do sometimes think how different my life would be if I had stood up to them and just gone - the guilt trip has been used ever since to make sure I stay within a few minutes drive. I ended up going to Poly in London and doing a secretarial course instead, then got into travel and never used my A Levels or secretarial skills. Mind you, I wouldn't have my lovely children if I had gone down a different path, so I suppose life hasn't turned out too bad! Oh and I did end up working part-time in a library! Maz. XX

And a travel agent person too I recall Miss Maz.

I was accepted for uni, but didn't go (long story!). I ended up at the local college and did an HND and then I did a part-time post-graduate course a few years later. I'm glad I did what I did and don't think uni would have been my cup of tea. I had a good career, which I could have carried on with but got disillusioned (another long story!).

I didn't go and I don't think I've done too badly for myself althugh I do tend to be the exception rather than the rule in my line of work - and I have had t work my way u doing the menial stuff for years which was very boring (and quite brain numbing when you know you can do harder stuff better than the university graduates) I'd been given a place at a posh uni (as long as I got the grades) but my A Levels were driving me mad so I quit. Fortunately my Mum was very supportive despite me shattering TONS of her dreams by not going Had I gone to uni I'd have been a lawyer - but I MUCH prefer what I ended up doing