Anyone else impatient to just work instead of do a long theory degree? 🙃
Did anyone start out aiming for academic/education degrees but feel too impatient for 3+ years of theory? Did you swap to a hands-on, practitioner course, or find a way to fast-track into paid early years/education work? Advice for those of us feeling restless! 😊
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It depends if you're eager to work or eager to make money.
If we say your working life is 48 years without a degree and 45 years with one both amount to a long time in the workplace. I'm around half way there and can't wait for the end.
However my education took me 2 years longer than it should of done to complete. It may not sound a long time in the grand scheme of things but it means I've missed out on 2 years of peak earnings and increased the amount of student loan to pay back. It also delayed the time it took to get onto the property ladder in which time both the property prices and the rent I was paying went up.
If you quantify how much it's ended up costing me it's a significant sum. My advice would be if you have the opportunity to make good money without studying then take it.
If we say your working life is 48 years without a degree and 45 years with one both amount to a long time in the workplace. I'm around half way there and can't wait for the end.
However my education took me 2 years longer than it should of done to complete. It may not sound a long time in the grand scheme of things but it means I've missed out on 2 years of peak earnings and increased the amount of student loan to pay back. It also delayed the time it took to get onto the property ladder in which time both the property prices and the rent I was paying went up.
If you quantify how much it's ended up costing me it's a significant sum. My advice would be if you have the opportunity to make good money without studying then take it.
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