I don't care If I get negatively voted but some people are a tad delusional.
I know Student Room is atypical of normal students in that most people have the perfect journey: excellent grades, extra-curricular activities, top twenty university and then a graduate scheme job straight after university. However the fact that so many folk believe they will earn £45k+ within 3/4 years of graduation is madness.
The average salary in the U.K. is circa £25k (outside London) and this is heavily skewed due to other factors (folk that earn more - alot more in some cases). The only folk that will have a fighting chance of this are the self-employed, doctors, top 4 accountancy firm employed and of course your financiers working in London.
I mean fairplay to some of you - ambition is great and It would be lovely if our generation were able to enjoy the fruits of our labour and maybe some of the benefits of previous generations but I can't see it happening. The economic situation does not favour it.
The naive romanticism about career and life is why previous generations laugh at us.