UNI STUDENTS

Most take a year off in the middle to do a work placement at a company.

you don't take a gap year during your course

a placement maybe

jesus man, finish your course, then go travelling

canaryboy 30 Dec 00:59
you don't take a gap year during your course

a placement maybe



den perry 30 Dec 01:03
jesus man, finish your course, then go travelling

rubbish. go travelling whenever you feel ffs

not sure the uni would allow it either

Probably doesnt matter when you go travelling, there`ll still be nothing for you workwise post degreee

wel in fairness, uni degrees are pretty intense and by taking a year off to go on the** and live it up, you're gonna make it a lot harder on yourself

I'm in my 1st year and didn't take a gap year, so I guess I'm not much help sorry...

den perry 30 Dec 01:06
wel in fairness, uni degrees are pretty intense and by taking a year off to go on the **** and live it up, you're gonna make it a lot harder on yourself


Very true Den, most keep the focus and I think that's best. Travel after...

What I would say is don't just go "travelling", do something like charity work etc that will keep you busy while still being enjoyable. I know a few people on a gap year who are bored already and regretting it.

What I would say is don't just go "travelling", do something like charity work etc that will keep you busy while still being enjoyable. I know a few people on a gap year who are bored already and regretting it.

Echo in here? :^0

90% of us are at uni, a few others have been doing an apprenticeship, it kind of finishes after the month in june 2011 when we will finish our work placements so it will be good if we went then as they wont have a job so can afford to drop everything and go, if we waited a year later till we finished our 4th year at uni then it may be a problem for them although they said they would be happy to get a in between job like working in a bar or whatever to raise more cash to travel then after that year of traveling go find a full time job relating to the course that they've been working on. just seems a bit sly that they have to wait a year if we do decide to wait and go after finishing our degrees.

Phil Lynott 30 Dec 01:09
What I would say is don't just go "travelling", do something like charity work etc that will keep you busy while still being enjoyable. I know a few people on a gap year who are bored already and regretting it.



well its not charity but 1 m8 said he saw on some holiday channel that in florida you can get part time jobs in places like disneyland and live in a holiday home for like 2months and get a decent deal

Yea charity was just an example, just meant that it would probably get boring quick without any sort of structured activity, as strange as that might sound. That sounds pretty good.

i hear you phil m8 lazing around on some beach isnt our kind of thing, we'd most definitely make sure where we plan to go theirs something we can do

It's Uni students duty to take a gap year holiday to some god forsaken st*t hole of a country, it's only when they get murdered that a place becomes available for someone else.

the reason most go on a gap year (as i did) :) so you get a couple more years of freshers especially if you have to do a placement year as well

either that or pick a course where you can go away for a few terms

i would take a year out ,cpould be another 50,000 degree holders on mcdonalds waiting lists when u get back ..

I did a "year out" before I went to uni.
I worked in a laboratory and it gave me the "heads up" when I got my chemistry degree.
I'm now a p1shhead with nine ex wifes and fourteen kids ;(

If I was about to start a uni course, I'd take a year out.

If I was about to finish a uni course, I'd take a year out.

..and if you were half way through....?

I suggest you read Can't be Arsed by richard wilson , it is the answer to all the 101 things you must do before you die books. It gives going travelling and gap year bollockks the pillorying they deserve.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/1906032378/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link

i did a year travelling in 2000-01 after uni.

www.bunac.org

can sort you out a visa for usa for the summer. you will never get an easier chance to go to usa and just do what you like for 4 months getting work when and where you please. I did it and got decent work in a kitchen on martha's vineyard, was the best time of my life - p.ssed every night was sh.agging a beautiful eastern european waitress, lovely surroundings. was fkin great. Thn went to australia and worked and drank, then nz, brazil argntina and home. the absolute fkin bo.llox. don't know how easy it is to get work out there now with the recesson, but sure there will be something if you're a hard worker and not shy. And tbh it will be hard to find a proper job n this counry for the next 12 months.

Do it.

didn't proper read your first post.

i took my year out when i finished uni. did take a year out between year 2 and 3, but that was a work placment.
If you go travelling it would be tempting to quit uni on your return.

If I was you i'd get in touch with bunac and still spend 4 months in usa for the summer. would be the absolute b.ollox imo. then go back to uni.

just checked. it is nearly a grand all in for the work usa package,including flights. A lot of money i suppose,but should be well capable of earning $400/week while you're there, save $200/week do that for 3 months and you have about two and half grand in dollars left. can get a monthly ticket on amtrak(trains) or greyhound(buses) for less than 500 bucks and you have 2000 bucks spending money while visiting as much of america as you please. You would have the time ofyour life, I did.

Wish I didn't have to go to work in january.

positively4thsteet 30 Dec 09:00

And tbh it will be hard to find a proper job n this counry for the next 12 months.


exactly thats what we were saying, theirs no rush to get a real job we want long term and leaving for a year could be a good thing in the grand scheme of things, really appreciate that link m8 was thinking about how we were gonna get a visa to work etc in some of the countries.

My son graduated in English and Linguistics last summer and he is teaching English as a Foreign Language in Beijing,China.
A fantastic experience and great on your CV when it comes to getting a"proper" job.

Makes me laff this great on the cv caper. It is a real person reading it who can spot a load of**a mile off. Delusional rowing bronze medal winning machu pitchu photographers are worth FA iin a working environment.

I disagree. Most of the people reading the CVs are idiots who have simliar rubbish on their own CVS. They are all impressed by the joke qualifications that children today pass.
Look at the OP on this thread and read the rubbish he posts on the politics forum. 20 years ago he would have left school at 16 not gone to university.

HC you may be right, I was thinking of CV readers actually recruiting for a proper job, manufacturing or engineering, I concede there is a thread of ineptness perpetuated in the civil and finance sector.

Big Charlie could give some worthwhile advise to his old chum on this

speedy and harry are seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeething

did anybody do a work placement for a year? im worried that after my work placement for a year they say 'yeah you did a good job, after your 4th year come back and work with us', if this is the case will they hold a place down for an extra year if i want to go traveling?

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master of multys 05 Jan 12:19
did anybody do a work placement for a year? im worried that after my work placement for a year they say 'yeah you did a good job, after your 4th year come back and work with us', if this is the case will they hold a place down for an extra year if i want to go traveling?

The scary thing is. I think you actually believe what you post.

He's the only one that does

mrgrumpy aka the fat old racist
bb aka to incompetent to work so resorts to benefits

Phil Lynott 30 Dec 01:09
What I would say is don't just go "travelling", do something like charity work etc that will keep you busy while still being enjoyable.

He does charity work now, he works in his dads kebab shop.

i dont but if i did it would be better than being an unemployed fatty on benefits

u have a good job blowing

do it, while you can!

did anybody do a work placement for a year? im worried that after my work placement for a year they say 'yeah you did a good job, after your 4th year come back and work with us', if this is the case will they hold a place down for an extra year if i want to go traveling?

Ask your dad, pizza boy.

daddy b home soon

i could ask your dad fat charlie but i dont think milkmen went to universities

daddy must b home

that doesnt even make sense

work it out 4 urself