Is a 2.2 really that bad :(

oshoshitzu

Voyager2002 wrote: »

You are ideally qualified to be a Catholic priest, and I understand that there are lots of vacancies across the whole of Europe. Pay is not that brilliant, but the pension benefits are out of this world!

Not really, I did not study a great deal of Christian Theology. Theology can be a very diverse subject. I did my dissertation on tripping.

Sigur_2

oshoshitzu wrote: »

Not really, I did not study a great deal of Christian Theology. Theology can be a very diverse subject. I did my dissertation on tripping.

With an ability like that to miss jokes I can see why you're finding it hard to find employment.

vicky_kidder

Sigur wrote: »

With an ability like that to miss jokes I can see why you're finding it hard to find employment.

Hahahahaha:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

oshoshitzu

Sigur wrote: »

With an ability like that to miss jokes I can see why you're finding it hard to find employment.

I got the joke alright; but notwithstanding there is a common misconception that people who study theology are studying to become priests. They miss the point that I did academic theology at a Uni as opposed to studying in a seminary.
Some theologians are athiests.

At the uni where I studied a born again Christian who when referencing the author for the bible wrote God. That did not go down too well with the theology lecturer as he said that was very much a debatable point.

greyster

bounceyball - are you looking at Bournemouth uni for CGI? My best friend went there and he said it was #1 in the UK. He works for double negative now, who do some of the CGI for Harry Potter films, Bourne movies, up and coming Batman film etc. Infact they came to the uni and offered him a job - the laziest guy I know got the fastest job offer I know

ringo - I would disagree, conversion courses is a major reason for doing a Msc.
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/About_postgrad_study/why/p!eklFeFX#I%20want%20to%20convert%20to%20a%20new%20career%20area

I moved from technical IT to Business Analysis. Granted i still work in IT now but my role is business orientated and not techie.

BigBouncyBall

greyster wrote: »

bounceyball - are you looking at Bournemouth uni for CGI? My best friend went there and he said it was #1 in the UK. He works for double negative now, who do some of the CGI for Harry Potter films, Bourne movies, up and coming Batman film etc. Infact they came to the uni and offered him a job - the laziest guy I know got the fastest job offer I know

ringo - I would disagree, conversion courses is a major reason for doing a Msc.
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/About_postgrad_study/why/p!eklFeFX#I%20want%20to%20convert%20to%20a%20new%20career%20area

I moved from technical IT to Business Analysis. Granted i still work in IT now but my role is business orientated and not techie.

I'm actually looking at Kent Uni, who are number 2! I must admit i did feel a bit imtimidated/overwhelmed applying to Bournemouth which is really one of the very best 3D/CGI schools in the world. Kent has very good links with Framestore CFC and i'm hoping to get at least a placement/runner job with them.

I'd love to get into places like Double Neg, Framestore, Glassworks, The Mill etc. and work on those sort of movies. Hopefully Kent will give me the chance to do that. :beer:

Milky_Mocha

Christa1 wrote: »

Also, my son wanted to go on to do a masters but with a 2:2 couldn't find a course that he wanted as they all asked for a 2:1. Even now he would still like do go and do this. The costs for one at Strathclyde Buisness School were going to cost £20,000, so totally out of the question.

Have things become that bad? Eight years ago my brother had a 2:2 in Business Administration. He felt the quickest way to step into a high-flying job was to improve on this by doing a Masters which he did at a top uni -City University. They didn't have a problem admitting him with his 2:2 grade. He then got a job fairly quickly working for a bank- two job changes and about six years later he is on £80k.

I think the reason he did well is because of the Masters, because he entered onto a graduate trainee position (they tend to be fast track) and also because he didn't remain in any job for too long. After a couple of years move on and improve your package.

BigBouncyBall

Christa1 - did/has he applied for those courses wanting a 2.1? Like i said above, both the courses i've been accepted to required a 2.1 and i got a 2.2! Don't be put off - tell him to go for it!

melancholly

neas wrote: »

SO your answer was that you can do nothing different/special with a psychology degree? You answered my question thanks, and that its misleading that some of my friends want to be shrinks... because they'd need to do another 3-5 years study on top of their degree? oO, thats alot of student loan lol.

So the general point that pyschology while an interesting degree makes it a little bit harder to get a job is valid still.. as you even state because of volumes doing psychology... you got more competition etc.

i think the skills you need in a psychology degree make you more employable than with other courses, as long as you have a good degree result! sorry that i didn't make that point crystal clear! psychology is often more flexible in terms of how you are assessed, so you can use the experience of giving presentations and group working as really positive assets when writing application forms and in interviews.

most other postgraduate 'professional' training courses in psychology provide you with a stipend (e.g. clinical, educational or a PhD with funding), so there is no issue over more years of loans. getting onto the courses is, as you would expect, highly competitive, but with clinical at least, there should be absolutely no issue over getting a job at the end since the number of places nationwide is determined by the NHS. i imagine that your friends actually want to become clinical psychologists rather than psychiatrists, and i hope for their sake that the mistake has been made in your understanding of their comments, rather than in them really not having a clue how it all works (that would bode very badly for their ability to get into the field).

to anyone looking at a further career in psychology, here is a list of all the possible areas you can go into, that will all need a BPS accredited undergraduate degree:
http://www.bps.org.uk/careers/areas/areas_home.cfm

may i just say that the degree you do isn't the most important thing in getting a job - that'll be your attitude (e.g. i imagine a lot of people with a psychology degree don't show off all the skills they have learnt during their degree in a job application). an attitude which dismisses other degree subjects on conjecture in some attempt to feel superior isn't a particularly attractive one!

baby_fuzz

There seems to be a lot of degree course snobbery in this thread... In my hunble opinion, it doesn't really matter what degree course you studied (unless it is very specific to the role one is applying for, like architecture, engineering or medicine). And just because Psychology is a popular course, it does not mean that there is more competition. I certainly don't group candidates by degree! The competition comes from the sheer number of applicants who have degrees full stop!