What subject did you do at Uni and would you do the same subject again.

English Literature.
Wish I had taken a more holistic English degree. Love literature still
Has given me lifelong enjoyment. Although I think it's a subject I would have done better at as a mature student. Having life experience to reflect on would have made my reflection and understanding deeper.

Graphic Design. Yes, though I didn't use hardly any skills I learned as we went desk top publishing within two years. I learned on the job.
If I was to do it again I do textile design. I didn't know it was a thing back then.

Physiotherapy. Love my job but it’s tough on your body and I’ve had many work related injuries over the years. Tried to sway DD away from it but looks like next year we’ll have a defiant physio student in the house! 🙈 If I had to choose again I’d probably go for radiography.

@JustHereWithMyPopcorn thanks for explaining. It does not sound like a good field to go into. A pity, because I think architects are so clever to combine the creative and the hard math/science.

Electronics engineering - yes, I would do it again. I never intended to do it, but things went really wrong at A level and I went through cleaning and applied for anything going. Ended up at a “rubbish” university (which was actually very good). Expected to drop out or change courses after the first year but I loved it. Completely surprised me that I would enjoy it considering it was in a very different direction to the way I was going (I have no idea why the uni even accepted me, they most have been desperate for bums on seats - I had originally intended to do sociology!). Can’t deny it was hard work, and several things were a mystery because I had the slightly wrong background so it took a lot of effort on my part to catch up, but it was worth it. Today I have an interesting job, not in pure electronics, but in engineering and R&D developing systems/instruments for bespoke situations but my social science based a levels alongside my surprise degree have been an excellent mix and have made me well rounded. (I definitely do not suggest that anyone intentionally does what I have done, pick something you love or has meaning for a potential career, but sometimes the world surprises us and a radical change of direction can work).

Well those two things for a start but over the past 15 years our role has become less respected (everyone thinks they could do the job or generally denigrates architects) but our responsibilities and workloads have increased exponentially with new regulations in planning, building regulations and H&S and more onerous requirements from the regulatory body which is often completely irrelevant to 80% of practicing architects. Pay has gone down if anything and insurance is sky high. For me the joy has completely gone.

Zoology - is definitely do it again. I led expeditions to remote countries and found new species. Incredible lecturers including Richard Dawkins. Studying at Oxford was amazing and helped my career - which is not remotely linked to my subject

I studied Psychology for my first degree. I did a Business Administration degree about 6 years later. I very much enjoyed both. I used Psychology degree everyday as I became a Psychology teacher and I use business admin as I run a small btl property business. I'd do them both again in a heartbeat. I loved my uni days.

Disagree. Far too early to tell for lots of people and so utilitarian.

Why is Architecture so bad? I know it is notorious for a long study/training period and low pay.

English Literature. Absolutely- loved it and teach Secondary English so use it directly, still a massive reader too.

Architecture. Would never repeat it given my time over, I genuinely hate it for multiple reasons, and have made sure my children didn’t even consider it as an option. I don’t know any architects that enjoy their job and wish they could do something else instead (although I’m sure some will). If any of your DC are considering it please persuade them away.

I did biology. I didn't enjoy it much, parts of it were fine. I'm in my 50s now and it's obvious that my interests are history and geography. I didn't take either to A level because I chose A levels where I thought the teaching would be good and I'd get good results. I was right but it's a shame humanities were so poorly taught and looked down upon at my school. I'm in finance now, I did know that I wouldn't go on to do a science related job, even before I went to uni.

Fine Art and loved it. One of the best times of my life and fantastic course doing what I enjoyed. Now though looking back I would have gone into social work possibly if I had my time again.

Economics - loved it and always worked within it and loved my work. It is worth looking at exact content of degrees - mine had lots of history, politics, development economics, economics of countries options like Russia which I really enjoyed.

That sounds great @Waspie Your ds will thrive in an LLB.

He thoroughly enjoyed them @blueshoes. He sounds a lot like you actually He is very bright and very capable of convincingly arguing that the grass is blue! He is taking History, English Lit and Economics at A Level and his school run all of the lessons as debates and discussions, which he loves.

We looked at some of the LLB courses on offer at Universities last night and he sounded very keen and positive and has signed up to "register interest" with several. Roll on the summer Open days! Exciting times for him and his cohort.

Thank you for your replies; you have set my mind at rest that he does have the right sort of personality to enjoy taking a LLB

Did your ds enjoy his mocks? If he did, he will take to law like a fish to water.

People do law degrees from all kinds of backgrounds. You don't need to do law at A level and in fact it is preferable not to. History is quite a natural segue way into law. I don't think it is risky at all to switch from history to law. I dare say Law will give him more career options. One of the reasons I chose law as an undergraduate degree (what did I know, no one in my family was a lawyer) was that I did not have to practice law if I did not like it. I said to myself ok, give it a year or two, but here I am still doing it 30 years later.

What I did know was that I liked arguing and conceiving pros and cons, justifying a decision, achieving an outcome. If your ds likes problem solving, law is a perfect fit because he will solving everyone else's problems (but his own) 😆

Thanks @blueshoes, that's good to hear. I speak only about my son; I know others will want to do an LLB for the love of the course.

Perhaps DS will too if/when he goes to university. However, since he started school, all he has wanted to do is study history. It's his passion. To find now, in year 12, that he wants to take law has knocked me a bit sideways. Also, he has never studied law (beyond doing mock court in years 9 and 10) so it seems a bit risky to suddenly chose it as his undergraduate degree.

First time - Psychology, would I recommend? Not really but that depends on what you want out of it and what you want to do next because you will HAVE to do something else to progress.

Second time- Microbiology, I would recommend this. It’s a subject that leads into many jobs in several industries.It is also extremely interesting, to me it is any way.

Joint honours in two modern languages. Yes, I'd do it again. It was great fun and I met my partner and many life-long friends.

If I had to choose another degree, I'd do classics.

@Fedupdoc - Can I use that quote to school/college students who are dead set on doing medicine? I talk to a lot of them, and (a) I don't understand why most of them think they want to do medicine, other than not really having a clue what it involves, and (b) I really wish there were more useful web resources to point students toward to show them the range of interesting and rewarding careers in science & engineering.

Medicine
has a weird route to it and if I’d had better early support I would have done physics/engineering.

English Language & Literature, I wish I’d combined it with something practical like PR or marketing.

Music and yes I would do it again! I did it as a mature student though and so didn't expect it to open doors for me. Did a Masters too.