UKNM: Re: RE: University v. Drop Outs

[Terry Kendrick]

Richard wrote:

>Now most of my friends

>have finished Uni and entering at the same level I now find myself.  I have

>a good list of skills to fall back on and a good working understanding of

>the background technology that I think I may have missed otherwise.  I do

>not feel like a drop out; I have a library of books and no student loans

>hanging over me.  Still wish I had gone and still day dream about it

>sometimes.


Keep it as a day dream if you don't need the qualification to

survive.  Here's a story (yes I know there are other stories ...).


I have a friend (honestly, he's a friend, it isn't me).  He had a good job

in a profession that was going graduate about twenty five years ago.  He

got insecure.  He was bright and brilliant but hadn't been to university,

and he got insecure.  His first marriage broke up so he decided to sell up

his house leave his job and go to university.  He did great.  Then he did

an MA.  He did great.  Then he started his PhD on the influence of Eastern

European governments on the national musics.  He ran out of steam.  So he

invested the remainder of his savings in doing an expensive professional

counselling course and set up his own  counselling business.  His wife

chucked him out, and he lives in a beat up flat now eeking out a meagre

living by doing telemarketing for a local agency.  At the age of 50.  I

don't blame going to university for this impact on him but clearly

university isn't the panacea.  Watch out for that itch!  It can be as

destructive as mind blowing.


Luckily there are lots of  happier stories out there...


Terry

www.terrykendrick.co.uk



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