Can you expand on THIS? THIS... Whole private/public schools thing making stuff so skewed? It's as if there's this code of silence. WTF, HUH? It's as if there's this "it's obvious they're the exception" thing about people who go to private schools? I want to know this:
Are you referring to 'skewed' in the sense that it may be these supposed 'middle-class delusions' of theirs, or skewed as in 'it's fine for them, they've got contacts and connections'? Which one?
Just looking at these forums, and seeing so many people causally say after they graduate, 15 years down the line (aged 35) they'll be earning £25-40k, and in the meantime there's this very discreet notion private school people will really go far etc... It makes me SCARED as ****, as someone on a high bursary to one. LOOK, WTF MAN. I'm relatively intelligent, hard-working, and very aspirational and 'ambitious', and I do not want to get A*AA or better and still end up as some ****ty failure like that. I personally want to be earning £80k+ by the time I'm 35 (£50k+ after tax/£4k+ per month), salary/jobs-wise. There's more to be made if I somehow make a business. Anyway though, no, jobs-wise, come on...
I get this HORRIBLE impression that that will not happen because I CAN'T CONTROL IT FROM HAPPENING. YOU'RE TELLING ME IF I GO TO A TOP 10 UNI TO DO ECONOMICS, I can't earn £80k or over, ever? So, what, if I can't get into banking, I can't even get an £80k-ish salary in accounting/actuary/management or management consulting? ****, if that's gonna happen... **** it, I'll take the safe route, totally redo my A-levels differently/take different ones, start again, and go for a medical/dental degree which guarantees the sorta money I'd want to be satisfied with my success. No need to worry what uni I go to with that too.
Can ANYBODY comment/elaborate/give me a greater awareness and context as to what my prospects in TRUTH are, when you consider all these factors about me:
I'm male, live in Zone 4 London, am a Eurasian (Persian), with pretty white/slightly olive skin, a tolerable/symmetrical face, have a name I will need to change in the future, have a very clear, almost 'posh' southern/home counties accent (no dammed dialect/'lower-class' tone/no hint of being a chav, essentially, if we're gonna be non-PC; hate using such language), am what I subjectively believe to be a HIGHLY cultured and generally more aware person than most (though not with regards to true job prospects, evidently, considering I'm this flipping confused and am asking for opinions here on this forum of all places lol), I have a bursary to a top 20 private school (and thus know a fair few very middle-class people, and a number of extremely wealthy and connected ones too, though I'm not brilliant friends with them), may get A*AA or better next year and may go to a top 10 uni, hopefully top 6/target one, to do something quantitative/good/employable (eg economics), with a great leaning towards a career in banking or finance.
Any judgements, anybody can make, on my prospects? I'M TERRIFIED I'll fall into the average trap, of average earners, despite my capabilities... Foresight is a blessing people. Give it to me ffs...
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