[Help] Moving to England

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All the skilled jobs are massively over subscribed cos the government made it too easy to go to university and now every fucker has a degree.

Erm, i don't think that's the problem. If people are interested in a subject and have the mental capacity, why should they not be allowed to study it?

A degree isn't a meal ticket. It's just a piece of paper that says you learned something.

For example, I'm pretty sure the country would love for all it's trained mechanical engineers to have guaranteed jobs but if society doesn't buy into products, or require them, then more mechanical engineers just aren't needed.

Feel free to go to Uni and study to be a doctor/lawyer/whatever. But if noone needs any more, you can't start working as one and paying yourself.

One of the fundamental problems is that so many schools tell you you won't be successful in life if you don't have a degree. There was a young lad at 17 at the Cablecom training centre in Teesside, studying to be a fibre engineer. There's jobs all over the world in that profession and he's now over in Dubai earning £2k per week tax free with no bills to pay. This career was never even mentioned at school.

Thing is, from what I remember at school, there was a very black and white "you should work in a supermarket, and you should be a lawyer", there was f*ck all real career advice. So everyone with the grades goes to Uni to be a lawyer and then when they graduate they realise most of them have wasted 5 years of their lives when someone who dropped out of school and pursued something they were interested in has a massive headstart in life.

I wish people would stop banding about degrees as the be all and end all. If there's no jobs, tough shit, get any old job and make a start. Even if it's a means to an end. Sick of all these middle class Uni graduates moaning about there being no jobs when there's plenty, they just won't "lower themselves to that level".

f*cking stupid country.