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crazy_guy

studentphil wrote: »

Why should I give up on my deam of working at a university? You won't give up wanting to be a Law Lord will you. Plus, it is not like you have had to take any old job as it is still a legal one in your dream sector.

Haha i certaintly wont be a Law Lord - loada ponces they are!!

Nevertheless yes its got the word "legal" in its job title - but i would certaintly not want to be in this sector for long (financial services) as it is fairly horrid - But i took it to further my general experience. I wish i could just walk into a interesting job but i'm afraid that i have to be diverted for a while for that ideal job to arise - its best in the meantime to get at least some experience.

emg

but ANY job will help you get a job you want - that's what everyone is trying to say. My first job was on a production line making food mixers, it was a horrible job and not at all related to the profession I am in now but having experience of working gave me an advantage over many of the other people I graduated with in a competitive market.

Hapless_2

http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/Options_with_your_subject/Your_degree_in_philosophy/Your_skills/p!eFjpiLX

In 2006, six months after graduating, over 50% of philosophy graduates had entered employment. Amongst these, the points of entry were varied, including: commercial, industrial and public sector management (12%); professional positions in business, finance and IT (10%); marketing sales and advertising occupations (6%). However, at this stage, many were found in clerical and secretarial (24%), and retail, catering and bar jobs (15%). This suggests graduates had taken on temporary work.

Apart from teaching the subject in further or higher education (see Further education lecturer and Higher education lecturer), there are no jobs where philosophy is a requirement. However, this should not discourage anybody from studying philosophy - indeed many students are attracted to the subject because it is non-vocational in nature.

peter999

studentphil wrote: »

Alight, take a detour for 6 months or year, but still no one wants me in a job that will remotely help me get a job in what I want. I still have no office experience, still can not type, even for another sort of job that is remotely similar.

Phil, what do your friends think of you ??

Do they know of your life on MSE ??

Why don't you get advice from people your own age, not from peeps on MSE who are older, have been through the mill & have too much advice to give.

peter999

studentphil

peter999 wrote: »

Phil, what do your friends think of you ??

Do they know of your life on MSE ??

Why don't you get advice from people your own age, not from peeps on MSE who are older, have been through the mill & have too much advice to give.

peter999

My fiends are walking into accounting and IT jobs so they have it all so they can not advice me.

studentphil

Hapless wrote: »

http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/Options_with_your_subject/Your_degree_in_philosophy/Your_skills/p!eFjpiLX

So philosophy is a pointless course and I have wasted my education studying it, fair enough.

aurora_borealis_2

studentphil wrote: »

My fiends are walking into accounting and IT jobs so they have it all so they can not advice me.

Fiends??!!


be careful :eek:

studentphil

Hapless wrote: »

Well if you are not willing to do a little extra training for office work (i.e. ECDL to add to IT GCSE) then you will get nowhere. It's called a COMPROMISE(sp)!

Look I am willing to go 7 till 6 if it is job I can do and half enjoy. I can learn new things easily and I am always willing to have a go at most things and to get involved.

Hapless_2

studentphil wrote: »

So philosophy is a pointless course and I have wasted my education studying it, fair enough.

Read the site and you might learn something!

studentphil

Hapless wrote: »

Read the site and you might learn something!

I have read it before and it is only a site for top graduate jobs.