Your degree and your career aspirations - how do they match up?

Absolutely! Especially in a product manager role or like a data scientist role. I'm actually thinking about applying to Google's early internship (first year or 2nd year of a four year course) scheme or a startup to see what tech is all about in first year.

You won't get funded for a psychology degree and it would be useless anyway since you couldn't even be a counsellor (never mind psychiatrist) with that degree alone.

As for the job, be an adult and decline it and tell your mother why.

And you might wanna lower your expectations for 30k when you don't even know what job you want.

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I realise I won't get funding and I don't have a plan for my future, all I know is I would like to go back to uni and do psychology so I'm going to make it happen. I know this sounds incredibly silly and a waste of time and money but I can't see myself being comfortable doing anything else. I don't think 30k is unrealistic at all if worse comes to worst I'm sure I can do a pgce/law/a grad job.

And for me rejecting this job would mean having my mum literally disown me which honestly I just don't want

1. Teachers don't start on £30k
2. If these 'routes' are backups, you'll have a tough time landing them. The competition for law/top grad jobs is intense, you need to be quite committed if you want to stand a chance in the recruitment processes.

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I feel like you are doing TSR a service with this thread. Too many ridiculous graduate salary expectations circulate on this site, that, and quite a few people just assuming they will walk into really competitive schemes without a problem.

Ok bro, at least spell 'prime' minister properly PM is also not a grad job aha

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Absolutely! Especially in a product manager role or like a data scientist role. I'm actually thinking about applying to Google's early internship (first year or 2nd year of a four year course) scheme or a startup to see what tech is all about in first year.

Very Interesting, what uni will you/ are be attending? I'm going for Comp Sci + AI in September at Edinburgh.

Edit: Just saw that you are going for Comp Sci and Maths.

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1. Teachers don't start on £30k
2. If these 'routes' are backups, you'll have a tough time landing them. The competition for law/top grad jobs is intense, you need to be quite committed if you want to stand a chance in the recruitment processes.

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Actually the maximum starting salary for teachers in Inner London is £29970, which is pretty much £30k. It is possible at some schools, mainly for maths teachers.

Warwick or Bristol depending on how results go

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It's technically not £30k I'm p. sure OP isn't a Maths grad.

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oh yeah, I forgot about that lol

But tbh, if you were getting paid that close to £30000 you might as well say I earn £30000- just add the total value of birthday presents to your income or invest some of it and add the returns to your income to get that extra £30 you need.

£30000 seems really good though. Plus headteachers can earn £100000- my headteacher drives a brand new Jaguar lol

Actually the maximum starting salary for teachers in Inner London is £29970, which is pretty much £30k. It is possible at some schools, mainly for maths teachers.

I saw you mentioned PGCE. My partner is a teacher and she said a lot of schools only hire Teach First as they think the training is better.