CAn your degree be just a hobby? With no intention for any career whatsoever?

Might as well stir up ****.

It gets said in every other thread, mate. The only people who are going to engage you (like the nursing people) are either new to TSR or butthurt to the max.

Not butthurt. It's quite hilarious how ignorant you people are considering you're so intelligent. I chose nursing because I am caring and love people. Nothing to do with my academic ability...there is more to life.

As an answer to the OP though, I have a degree in graphic design that I took purely because I am a good illustrator and I wasn't ready to choose my life-long career. I guess that counts as doing it for a hobby.

Don't say 'you' as if I am the one who is saying nursing is cheap. I almost chose nursing myself, and I am doing a Law degree. I am decidedly not a STEM student.

You might find it hilarious, but you'd find 200 posts in this forum hilarious because they will say the same thing as the other poster. STEM elitism is part and parcel of this site, and if you're replying to it trying to subvert it you're obviously either emotional or very new to the site.

We had a women in our classes who must have been in her 60s who was doing it as a hobby. I studied law ( not STEM, the horror! )

We had a women in our classes who must have been in her 60s who was doing it as a hobby. I studied law ( not STEM, the horror! )

I know someone who had a full-time job, was the most senior manager in a medium-sized company who too decided to do Law as a hobby part-time. First he did a GCSE in it, to keep his mind activate, then an A-Level, then needed something more challenging after. Achieving the degree didn't help his career in any way possible.

What if someone was had say 3 years to live so wanted to do a degree however it could be someone young with cancer. Obviously, their career is terminal and would it do some good in the world as an example that studying is a pleasure in itself?

I'm not sure I follow you, matey.

If your parents are rich...you can do whatever you like!

Nailed it. Choose your parents carefully kids

I don't see why not. As others mentioned, it's a rather expensive hobby, but I can see the attraction of recreational education. If I happened to win enough money to see me through life without ever needing to work again, I'd probably go and do a couple of hobby degrees at some point in my life.

Because in a nursing degree you don't have to prove the Gauss Markov Theorem. That's why.

The UK is one of the only markets, unlike, notably, America and Europe, where you can do a degree as a hobby because we have a bull**** made up knowledge and services economy, so 90% of even the largest graduate employers do not require a particular degree, just a 2:1.

The value of university is in what you get up to in your spare time. If you spend it face down drunk in a gutter or wanking into packets of biscuits you are not going to have much of a CV.



No you have to get off your arse and do proper work in the real world rather than sitting around cogitating about maths.