Best Degree Now?

Oldernotwiser

spendapennyortwo wrote: »

Nursing or teaching and you can't go wrong with either of those options! You would have a guaranteed work after graduation. no doubt.

That's completely wrong as there are vast numbers of unemployed nurses and teachers! There are certain shortage teaching subjects, like secondary maths or science, but neither a nursing degree nor a teaching qualification is any guarantee of anything at the moment.

Oldernotwiser

Volcano wrote: »

You're suggesting that the alternative career move to going to university, is to dig and weed someone's garden for free???

For a career in Horticulture, it would be a perfectly valid starting point, backed up by part time study at college level.

Pee

I think teaching and nursing are amongst the safer jobs, but just realised you specifically said that you didn't want to do that. You also said you didn't really want to go to Uni, just want to improve your career prospects.

As a mature student I don't think you would have any trouble getting on a law degree with average grades, but don't think that is the right area to be going in to either.

I think something which enabled you to work and earn whilst you learn sounds more suitable - a job at a garden centre combined with an OU course or voluntary work, but not just doing someone's gardening for free, could you do an organised placement say with the National Trust? How do you feel about accountancy? Insolvency practioners are the growth area at the moment. How would you feel about that?