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uni vs work
I need your advice guys, my degree is business management when i start in sept. However i have been offered a job as assistant store manager at outfit because i went on the management programme in my gap year. What you guys think i should do? Go to uni and do the degree or work my way up higher again
Is there any way you can go back to working at Outfit after doing a degree? Working your way up is invaluable and a degree won't do any magic, but it may be useful at some point.
Perhaps you could work there in vacations or something (if you have an understanding manager) and then re-enter the management programme after uni?
Perhaps you could work there in vacations or something (if you have an understanding manager) and then re-enter the management programme after uni?
if you have the drive and the skills you can go up in the company as high as you want or transfer/change employment. Uni will get you the paper qualification but not the same amount as experiance as someone who worked thier way up. Plus your not starting at the bottom your going in at a management level.
And Poica, the vast majority of companies will give you training as far as your willing to go. Outfit may be different but you can work your way to the top.
Op my advive would be to do what you want to do, if you go into Outfit you earn as you work and probs have a much more significant pay packet at the end of the month than if you went into Uni. Its also easier to work your way up in some ways as much of the stuff you need to learn youl be doing every day or on a regular basis which makes it easier to learn In Uni you get to do all the fun Uni stuff.
And Poica, the vast majority of companies will give you training as far as your willing to go. Outfit may be different but you can work your way to the top.
Op my advive would be to do what you want to do, if you go into Outfit you earn as you work and probs have a much more significant pay packet at the end of the month than if you went into Uni. Its also easier to work your way up in some ways as much of the stuff you need to learn youl be doing every day or on a regular basis which makes it easier to learn In Uni you get to do all the fun Uni stuff.
Cadre_Of_Storms
And Poica, the vast majority of companies will give you training as far as your willing to go. Outfit may be different but you can work your way to the top.
I'm only talking from the experience of my sister - she worked her way up, proving that it can work and experience is invaluable - and is now on a £25,000 a year salary at a top firm doing HR, but she is also having to take a degree through Open University to get any higher. And doing a degree at the OU is bloody hard because you have to do your degree work and still work at the same time. It's worthwhile going to University and getting the degree the easy way while having a good time for 3 years. Obviously depends on circumstances.
Poica
I'm only talking from the experience of my sister - she worked her way up, proving that it can work and experience is invaluable - and is now on a £25,000 a year salary at a top firm doing HR, but she is also having to take a degree through Open University to get any higher. And doing a degree at the OU is bloody hard because you have to do your degree work and still work at the same time. It's worthwhile going to University and getting the degree the easy way while having a good time for 3 years. Obviously depends on circumstances.
good for her yeah open uni is a lot of work (probs more so than attending regular uni) and much respect to her for having the detrmination to do both,
i never saw the inside of a college or uni yet i was going down the same route as your sister im fully qualified to work in any banking sector bar morgages and have managment qualifications as well and was working my way into HR
now im doing nursing (yeah i know hell of a career change) which my work trains me for though i did take a 4 and a half grand pay cut for it
best of luck to her
I would make the degree your top priority, because as weird as it might sound, a little piece of paper and a lot of stress means a lot more money in your pocket. If there's any way possible to do both, I would.....actually, I have. It's hard, but if you do it I wish you the best.
http://www.cvtips.com/training_during_career.html
http://www.cvtips.com/training_during_career.html
Hi there,
I was in the same position. i was given the chance to go onto a management role within a supermarket i used to work at part time when at Uni. But i decided to research as to whether my degree could get me a better job in the long run (I study Business with Marketing). After researching i came to the conclusion that a degree opens so many doors into the world of work that a managerial role in a shop does not. I found the HERO website really useful as it explains (amongst other things) the sorts of jobs that are available to those with a degree and points out all the benefits of being a graduate when looking for a good job! Take a look, the link to the part i found useful is below:
http://www.hero.ac.uk/uk/studying/careers_and_lifelong_learning282.cfm
I hope it helps :-)
Amanda
I was in the same position. i was given the chance to go onto a management role within a supermarket i used to work at part time when at Uni. But i decided to research as to whether my degree could get me a better job in the long run (I study Business with Marketing). After researching i came to the conclusion that a degree opens so many doors into the world of work that a managerial role in a shop does not. I found the HERO website really useful as it explains (amongst other things) the sorts of jobs that are available to those with a degree and points out all the benefits of being a graduate when looking for a good job! Take a look, the link to the part i found useful is below:
http://www.hero.ac.uk/uk/studying/careers_and_lifelong_learning282.cfm
I hope it helps :-)
Amanda
Well... I have been in work for the last 2 years...and now im going back to uni.
I'm not boasting, but last 2 years i have been on about £25,000 and a company car...BUT... its not everything. It was in a field i didnt want to be in, so ultimately was alot of work for something i didnt want to do for say many years of my life.
If the job is in the choosen field and you want and can see you doing that job in 10 years, definately think about doing the job.
BUT, if the job is only something you think you might want to do because the money is ok, go to Uni. Learn, get the degree and hopefully find something you want to do then work up.
Money is nice, but doing something you want to do is much more important, but thats just what ive learnt over the last 3 years!
I'm not boasting, but last 2 years i have been on about £25,000 and a company car...BUT... its not everything. It was in a field i didnt want to be in, so ultimately was alot of work for something i didnt want to do for say many years of my life.
If the job is in the choosen field and you want and can see you doing that job in 10 years, definately think about doing the job.
BUT, if the job is only something you think you might want to do because the money is ok, go to Uni. Learn, get the degree and hopefully find something you want to do then work up.
Money is nice, but doing something you want to do is much more important, but thats just what ive learnt over the last 3 years!
Assistant store manager sounds like a very nice position to have been offered, and if I was in your position, I'd take that option, but it depends what your overall goals are- what jobs would you have wanted to try for after finishing your degree?
Sam_Was_Here
Well... I have been in work for the last 2 years...and now im going back to uni.
I'm not boasting, but last 2 years i have been on about £25,000 and a company car...BUT... its not everything. It was in a field i didnt want to be in, so ultimately was alot of work for something i didnt want to do for say many years of my life.
I'm not boasting, but last 2 years i have been on about £25,000 and a company car...BUT... its not everything. It was in a field i didnt want to be in, so ultimately was alot of work for something i didnt want to do for say many years of my life.
How old are you and what job is it that you do?
Cadre_Of_Storms
i never saw the inside of a college or uni yet i was going down the same route as your sister im fully qualified to work in any banking sector bar and was working my way into HR
now im doing nursing
now im doing nursing
LOL !
Ever think that you might have coped better with the banking if you had a decent university education ?
Nursing ....
As for your spelling. Oh dear....
acolyte
LOL !
Ever think that you might have coped better with the banking if you had a decent university education ?
Nursing ....
As for your spelling. Oh dear....
Ever think that you might have coped better with the banking if you had a decent university education ?
Nursing ....
As for your spelling. Oh dear....
No i dont think id have coped better for the simple fact that i gained experience instead of sitting in a classroom
who said i didnt cope? i coped with the job fine i left because i didnt like the place i was working and i left, i got offered a job within the NHS and i took it thinking it would a good career move, so far no complaints.
oh and dont know if anyones told you but picking up on someones typos is the saddest most immature thing you can do on a forum
I find it amusing the way people answer this question in absolutes - it's as if working now will mean you can never go to uni.
You can follow both paths, personally I'd be tempted to work first for perhaps a year or even 2 . You can then go to uni with some money in your pocket, good work experience for after you leave and will be a more confident/rounded person compared with the other freshers.
Some go to uni purely as "the next thing to do", pick up no work experience and come out clueless when it comes to the job market
You can follow both paths, personally I'd be tempted to work first for perhaps a year or even 2 . You can then go to uni with some money in your pocket, good work experience for after you leave and will be a more confident/rounded person compared with the other freshers.
Some go to uni purely as "the next thing to do", pick up no work experience and come out clueless when it comes to the job market
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