How are people finding the graduate life?

Work = brilliant

Everything else = ****

Most people from uni made no effort to keep in touch and it's hard to make new friends. I'm pretty much coming home from work and sitting in bed on my laptop for the evening, barely interact with another person outside of the office. Can't help but think is this my life for the next 40 years?

Postgraduate studies?

Still on here, still no girlfriend and still have not met a white girl who likes Oriental guys so my job is irrelevant.

Yeh everyone there is my age pretty much. Even half the managers are mid to late 20s.

I suspect in a few years i'll gravitate back to Manchester or somewhere else. I don't want to live in London

What's your job mate?

You lift and that? Guarantee you start lifting and improve confidence in speaking to girls you'll get one cos of law of averages.

Being a graduate is hard. When people told me that the rest of life was "****", I honestly just thought they were just being dramatic.

For those of you still at university, wondering what it's like... well, it's basically your summer holidays, but forever. There's nobody to tell you when your lecture is, no exam schedule. There's just 'life'. It's up to you. It's akin to jumping into a pool for the first time.

Pretty good, detective stuff going well, managed to pass my stuff and my social life stabilised more than it was during uni or even the past 4-5 months tbh. As for socially when you're at uni you think friends are for life but the majority of my close friends are pre uni. Now that uni has finished can hang with them more since we're not 50 miles apart or studying for exams which is pretty great.

I know what you mean though, uni was pretty carefree- though I was a little disillusioned with it. That and I've never like education much. There's more pressure and seriousness post graduation, it's now time to 'get things done' so to speak. I personally like that though.

I think the not making new friends thing just depends on the type of friends you have, I meet new people fairly often through friends, even today. I can empathise though, life gets a little stale when you're not meeting new people.

Don't want to reveal on here but it's nothing special. Far from a wasteman on benefits though.

I stopped because it made zero difference in attracting girls.

It's alright.

Did some self-employed labouring for a while which was good fun and a new challenge. But now unemployed now and struggling to find anything. Don't really have much hope where I live and I can't afford to relocate.

Socially it is better than university, being with all my old mates again. But again financial situation means that I can't do as much as I would like.

I do think I've made new friends with old friends, we been talking more and I'm noticed more by people who didn't talk with me before university. Mixture of new found confidence/need to talk to people and build rapport.

Good the detective stuff is going well though.

I guess friends of friends means you can make new friends that way. May try that.

Yeah the problem is when financially you aren't sound you can't really experience the freedom you'd expect to have as a post graduate.

Yeah depends on your friends, some guys prefer to keep others to themselves which I find to be pretty weak. We like to invite everyone and mingle, more fun that way- especially when you're meeting girls.


Actually taking a trip with them to Amsterdam in September, then hopefully Bora Bora in winter with Sarah. Live, who needs the Spanish islands. You should try organise some holidays if you can, it's refreshing.

Exactly. When I was putting the hours in labouring I was quite well off, paid off my overdraft pretty quickly. Could afford to go to a festival, went on nights, did stuff with my mates. But unfortunately the money has run out now, even with careful budgeting, and I'm so limited in what I can do. Living at home, relying on parents, doesn't look or feel good.

Does this make you hella mad?

I'm pretty much coming home from work and sitting in bed on my laptop for the evening, barely interact with another person outside of the office. Can't help but think is this my life for the next 40 years?

Exactly. When I was putting the hours in labouring I was quite well off, paid off my overdraft pretty quickly. Could afford to go to a festival, went on nights, did stuff with my mates. But unfortunately the money has run out now, even with careful budgeting, and I'm so limited in what I can do. Living at home, relying on parents, doesn't look or feel good.