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to think that 'so you get really rich' is not a good reason to go to university?

75 replies

secondstoryteller · 13/09/2008 12:46

....MIL's card to DS, nice to wish him luck, but....this is not someone who has struggled all her life, either...and evidence from DPs life is that university does NOT make you really rich anyway!

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ScottishMummy · 13/09/2008 13:42

i wonder if the salutation in the card has been taken out of context maybe just a funny quip

Tortington · 13/09/2008 13:44

i think its a great reason.

really rich is perhaps a relative term.

go to university so you are not really poor.....wouldn't have sounded as nice

zippitippitoes · 13/09/2008 13:44

it sounds like humour to me

Anna8888 · 13/09/2008 13:46

I think it's a very good message.

Life without money is miserable. Which is not, of course, to say that money is the solution to all life's problems - it isn't, you need more skills than that. Hopefully university offers the opportunity to acquire a wide range of useful skills, including ones that will lead to a lucrative career.

beansmum · 13/09/2008 13:47

I'm about to start uni (again), the main reason is so I can get a job I will enjoy and earn enough to give ds everything he needs (plus loads of stuff he doesn't need, but which would make life easier/more fun) on a single income. So 'to get really rich' is part of my motivation I suppose. Quite a big part if I'm honest.

Cappuccino · 13/09/2008 13:48

oh god I did an English degree

will I really get a prolapsed womb?

zippitippitoes · 13/09/2008 13:50

i didnt realise that if you got a pgce you could claim it as a second degree

i have 2.5 degrees in that case

english fine art and a pgce

palaver · 13/09/2008 13:55

I have a Degree in English and my womb is fine thanks

ScottishMummy · 13/09/2008 13:59

dont understand the prolapse womb hypothesis get lost at prolapse,PO,diabetes and stress. but my womb is instu no prolapse

SmugColditz · 13/09/2008 14:01

Um, it wasn't a hypothesis, my point was that if you are well off, and have a prolapsed womb and diabetes at 55 years old, you retire. YOu don't have to work 50 hours a week on your feet in a corner shop to make the mortgage

ScottishMummy · 13/09/2008 14:02

why didnt you say that then?instead of going round the houses

Tiramissu · 13/09/2008 14:03

As someone who lived in 4 different countries i would encourage my children -IF they want to go to uni- to choose something that you can easily practice in other countries.
Because you dont know where life is going to take you.
Also i think languages are very important (more options)

noddyholder · 13/09/2008 14:04

most of the really rich people i know didn't go to uni!

ScottishMummy · 13/09/2008 14:05

all the prosperous people i know did go to uni

noddyholder · 13/09/2008 14:12

the bettering yourself line makes me cringe.Better than who/what?

FairLadyRantALot · 13/09/2008 14:15

bettering as in better (more knowledgable) than before? That is what I think anyway

Tiramissu · 13/09/2008 14:16

Last year we had our school reunion and it turned out that those who left school and worked in supermarkets are now richer than the rest of us.
They all have their own successful bussiness

BecauseImWorthIt · 13/09/2008 14:17

It was me who used the word bettering - and I did put it in speech marks, to indicate that it was a turn of phrase.

But definitely meant it in the way FLRAL has suggested.

ChupitosGalore · 13/09/2008 14:17

maybe he'll learn a sense of humour and teach you?

noddyholder · 13/09/2008 14:18

More knowledgeable is good! Uni is fun and a good way to learn about living on your own and just growing up really.I went to uni and i earnt nothing much as a result.Every penny I've made came from a completely different job which was largewly self taught.I am not rich btw just ok.My sister didn't go to uni and is v wealthy and younger than me My younger brother did and is always skint!There are no rules It is a good way to avoid real life for a few years though

twinsetandpearls · 13/09/2008 14:35

It does depend on your definition of rich. I teach and would never call myself rich but i am not poverty stricken. We are skint at the moment as we have not sold our house, are renting another and have paid medical bills for me. This is not real poverty. Friends i went to school with who did not go to uni are mostly muddling by or in real poverty. My degree has kept me out of poverty and given me choices in life. I could have been rich if i had chosen another degree but i did not.

noddyholder · 13/09/2008 14:42

It does vary depending on what you do.If I had simply left school and started property renovation then by now i probably would have been rich!As it is I am not in poverty adn i wouldn't miss those years arsing around for anything

Cappuccino · 13/09/2008 14:51

I'm very happy about the reprieve for my womb

I was just kicking myself for not doing an engineering degree

expatinscotland · 13/09/2008 15:29

i'm with beansmum and Anna.

i'm getting retrained because 'love of learning' and all that shit doesn't pay the bills well.

i'm doing it for money.

as my dad always said, 'money isn't everything, except when you don't have any.'

Carmenere · 13/09/2008 15:37

I Really want my dd to be educated and wealthy. The most efficient way of doing this is by going to university. I will encourage her to go.