If you don't revise you'll end up..

So I thought we could create this thread to motivate each other..

Post pictures of where we'll end up if we don't work hard and revise now

I'll start.

OP there's really no need at all to be snobby like this. Many graduates with great grades are struggling to find ANY job at the moment, and guess what? They revised the best way they could. They have no choice, but to work at ASDA. But it's a job, even if low paid and not relevant to people's career choices, and something to add to the CV.

The thing that demotivates me the most is that after going on placement I've realised all the employers care about with regards to web proffessionals is a good portfolio. A portfolio tells the employer so much more about the quality of students work in comparison to a degree title. They dont even take a second glance at the degree type you have its your portfolio and experiance all the way. Once you realise that, wheres the motivation to do well in your exams??

On top of that youve been offered a full time position now and if I decide to go back to uni and regardless of whether you do well or not when completing the degree the offer still stands.

I'm very much a do'er and problem solver but I dont like to blag on writting about it which works great in a commercial environment, not so much academic. In addition one of the exams you have you know is completly irrelevant to anything in the real world.

Wheres the motivation now??

It just annoys me the masses upon masses of people going to uni simply cause they can/want to, to do a course which will have no real benefit to their career at all.

If you work hard, you should be allowed to go to uni

Its when someone says "Im going to such-and-such uni to do Sports management and i need 2 B's." And you're screaming in your head "maybe you're not suited to uni" --> you're skills could be used so much more effectively in another pursuit like an electrician etc (which for the record im very jealous of as when they drive past their own car, while i'm still struggling with student debts)

Uni should be academics and hard-workers, not a 3 year holiday.

The post-Blair era of everyone is special and should be able to whatever they want has had a large impact on this.

I suspect that being Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill are probably only available as career options to a minority of those who don't revise tbh.

Just trying to lighten up the mood.

To see young people bashing people others who are unfortunate to prove their self worth is disappointing.

I know this has been said to death but getting average/poor grades isn't the end of the world. I'm not condoning no revision, but if things don't work out there are dozens of things young people can do to reach their goals.

Hmmm... well my friend and I both fell in love with the same uni, got offers from it and made amazing plans about how we'd both go there and have a brilliant time.

I didn't revise and missed the grades so went to my insurance instead.

I'm having the time of my life and couldn't be happier, while she got the grades and is now incredibly depressed because she HATES the uni, is struggling with her course and hasn't made any friends.

IT'S SO HARD TO MOTIVATE MYSELF TO REVISE NOW

I can assure you it's not his Media studies degree that they're interested in.

Nothing like foretelling gloom/doom for motivation.

And to you I say learn to take a joke ffs!


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Out of curiosity where did you and your friend end up?

Tell you what, if you get the grades you need I will make you one of those damn boxes myself.

lol, accepted, sorry, somewhat ironically I'm procrastinating painfully dull revision by commenting on this thread, I realise I didn't exactly contribute anything of value there.

That said, I must say that thinking "it'll work out okay anyway" has always motivated me not to work. I think there's a genuine "I'd better work otherwise I might work behind a till for the rest of my life" element of motivation by fear here, however unpleasant you may find it that some people don't want to work behind tills for the rest of their lives, and not revising makes that more likely even though there will still be opportunities. I don't think it necessarily comes with scorn for those who do work behind tills, though I'll quite happily accept that some people do scorn those who do, and ofc that's not nice/ right.

I say all this as I ignore the textbook that's sitting on my table in front of me