Quote Originally Posted by baggieal View Post
Good luck to your daughter Dave. For anyone to trash a good grad scheme is simply bitter!! My daughter through a hard slogged first degree went on a fantastic graduate scheme with a large blue chip company and worked her way up through four promotions. She’s earning now what I could have only dreamed about at that age. She will need zero help or finance from me so proud she can stand on her own two feet. I worked with a graduate for TUI U.K. the largest Tour Operator in the World - David Burling! He was sharper than a knife and now their CEO.

There of course are idiots in every job and profession but a large company with a dedicated graduate recruitment department invests huge finances to get it right and they usually do!

More respect for someone who places negative comments about uni or graduates that’s been to Uni or had kids that go or owned a very large blue chip company with a proper graduate scheme. Unless this is the case you have to question the bitterness! I wish I had the opportunities.

I wish I had private health care or had paid 5 grand rather than wait 2 years on the NHS for a recent operation. Truth is - I was too tight to pay the money so my problem! The moral of the story is within this last paragraph!
Who’s trashing a good grad scheme?

You’re seeing what you want to see and not reading what I’m saying if you’re aiming that at me!

Some see university and a great education as the answer to everything.

I don’t, I believe there’s more than one way and it’s down to what’s best for the individual.

I have a good friend who was desperate for his daughter to have the military career that he wished he’d been able to pursue Al, three years ago whilst on officer training she committed suicide.

I’ve had a few conversations with Des about the fact he’s so intelligent and yet ended up working on the lorries at Wolverhampton Council........he’ll tell you himself, he just valued a simple life.

I’ve been the opposite and always been highly driven and look where this has taken me mentally in recent months.

I’ll wager Des is a happier bloke than me, I respect his approach to life now, maybe that would’ve been better for me.

Truth be told, it’s impossible to know in your 20’s if your choices have been correct in either educational terms or in careers taken.

I don’t think you really know yourself and whether you’ve got it right until you’re in your 40’s and 50’s.

This would be a better conversation 20 years from now I guess once we see how lives and careers actually turn out and we ask our kids at 40 to 50 if they’re happy?

It took me until 60 to realise how unhappy I was with my life.