One third of call centre staff are graduates

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Loanranger wrote: »

My comments are not anti graduate nor anti teachers.
It seems to me, and many others, that not every young person will benefit from going to university.
Going to university has become an automatic assumption that needs to be challenged if only because so many young people are leaving university without much hope of attaining a graduate level job.
This point was the essence of the initial post "one third of call centre staff are graduates".

I do not believe that the current system is sustainable whereby graduates are being churned out every year without good prospects of a graduate level job.
This needs to be challenged. My point was that for many roles the work is not actually at graduate level. I used the example of nursing and teaching but there are others such as accountancy. In the past these roles required 5 GCE O levels.
In the past ten years the currency has changed again and it's masters degrees to which graduates are being drawn. Masters degrees are usually quite narrowly focused and often vocationally oriented. Engineering is a profession that now requires a masters degree (M.Eng). Isn't this exactly the type of course that the polytechnics delivered so well?

I do actually agree with you on pretty much all the points you make. On the flip side I can also understand why orpheo took some offense as quite frankly I take a bit of offense myself in that I AM one of these graduates who works in a call centre, and the majority of posts on here seem to pour scorn on my job and assume we are all imbeciles who can't get a better job.

People may work in a call centre because it fits what they want either career wise or personally. Yes it's monotonous, yes some people speak to you like your something on the bottom of their shoe. On the flip side however they tend to be very flexible hours (I work just 3 days a week condenced into 12hr shifts), the holidays are great (8 1/2 weeks a year) and in contrast to someones post who assumed it's minimum wage my pay is franctionally under £30k which although not amazing is at least national average.

With a pre school child the hours flexibilty means my partner can also work 3 days a week and we don't need so much as an hours childcare whilst actually being able to raise our own children instead of passing it onto someone else. I can also manage my properties that I rent out much better than if I was in a full time 9 to 5.

In conclusion we aren't all just failures who couldn't get a proper job so became a faceless drones who were fair game to ridicule and disdain.