Would you go to uni...

[Chairman Meow]

Having gone back as an adult in the last few years, definitely not. My regrets are more that I didn't focus on the stuff I was interested in myself years ago, rather than being pushed into work I was good at and well paid but that I wasn't actually interested in. 

 

I've never really gotten the idea it's some kind of socialising experience you'd never get otherwise either, I don't know if it's the fact I moved in a couple of different circles, most of my friends are all arty types, either bands, film work etc. and then I was involved in motorsport even from being a kid so I always mixed with loads of different people and travelled quite a lot, but I don't see how Uni gives you some kind of access to people you wouldn't otherwise have. 

[YorkshireRed]

23 minutes ago, Chairman Meow said:

I didn't focus on the stuff I was interested in myself years ago, rather than being pushed into work I was good at and well paid but that I wasn't actually interested in. 

I consider the passing of this advice down to my children as examples of parenting I can be comfortable with. There aren’t as many as there should be.

 

Of course, it’ll come back and kick me in my aged bollocks when they’re both happily penniless and still living at home in their thirties. 

[Red74]

Would love to have gone. Shame I went to a terrible school that didn’t encourage A levels let alone tell us uni existed.

 

Knowing what I know now I’d be off without thinking and would be doing camp America in the summer to gtfo. 

[Harry's Lad]

I didn't go.

I hated school, and while there were subjects I was good at, the teachers at our school were terrible. I hardly went in for the last 18 months, but still passed the exams I was entered for, but they wouldn't have been enough to go to University. Not that I would have gone anyway.

 

I learned more in the University of life than I ever learned at school, I did however put both my kids through University, my daughter is a teacher and my lad in IT.

 

Would I do things differently in hindsight?, no I wouldn't.