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Just askin....did any of you have part-time jobs for your Final Year and how work intensive was the final year?
Ta, :)
I was lucky, still had grants when I was a student, so didn't work part time.
course work was okay, but come to finals, needed all the time I could get.
Lost nearly a stone in body weight over 2/3 weeks of exams.
Yes I had several, well one perminant one in turm time and more in the hols. Most people find it get a rather busy towards the end so i quite my job a month or so from the end.
Mind you I was feed up of the job by then having worked every fri/satsunday night for nearly 2 years:rolleyes:
oh and I also having now ta pay back silly amounts of sudent loans :mad:
The predicament I'm in is that so far I got a temp job up until Xmas but really wanted a permanent job but speaking to a few people who I know they reckon final yr is mega intensive so actually quite happy to have the final 4 months free. Doing a degree in IT by the way - was only doing some SQL this afternoon! :) Am doing my disertation/project on Customer Relationship Management (CRM).
Oh well you should be alright then seeing as IT is one of those Mickey Mouse degrees :D:D:D:D
Just finished my pharmacology & gene manipulation degree did not work in the whole 4 years of it, but did sell various items to supplement my car. I did not see any point working for £5 per hour. Just missed out on first and ended up with 2:1 which is a stinker. Might be doing Phd soon or job depends on cash flow. I reckon I must have had one of the fastest student cars going as it aint to far away from the best that people have on this site and thats while being a student. Fianl year was a bitch as most of my degree was equations, graphs, logs, critical evaluations or chemistry which is a pain in the arse. Clinical pharmacology was the worst, had to learn all amino-acid side chains in 1 week in relation to renal glomeruli output ratios of which I fck up and missed out on my first, head still hurts, I think Im mentally scarred. Worst exam was genetics , one question required one to analyse various restriction enzymes and the sequence homology of distribution, a real bitch if you spent the night before fitting a turbo. I like moddiying cars so Id enjoy being a mechanic except the pays crap so I ll stick to pharmacology.
Ant,
I'm not taking the pi$$ as IT is what I did:p
Spend most of my time with SQL :(
And the next person that mentions 3rd stage normalisation gets a kicking:rolleyes: :mad: :confused: :( :o ;) :p :D
Ah Normalisation, 1NF, 2NF, 3NF!!! Databases are actually my sorta thing and hope to get into them when I do come to get a job after it all! :D Got my first lecture in Advanced CASE tomorrow....
Good Luck Ant,
Wish you all the best with it:D
Working with databases is pretty cool (good grief listen to the geek :eek: :eek: :eek:)
Design stage is a major headache as the bloody users never tell you everything.
Spend most of my time now saying "Why the F*@k didn't you mention that before..." :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
Cheer mate :) - had a bit of a knack for databasing a while ago way way back from my A-level days where my project was the best the college had ever had so it's just continued on. Would absolutely love (I know, sounding geeky!) to get a job in something similar to what you're doing - from my very very limited experience capturing user requirements does seem a bit of a pain! :D
What sorta stuff you do? What's good, what's bad? Which is the best sorta route for me to take when I've got my degree? ...sorry for the questions..its just to hope the 21 years in education is worth it!
Well I'm kind of in a bit of a Jack of all trades type roll...
I teach MS Access and Excel to End users and also do a fair bit of database development as well.
Best thing to do is probably get into some sort of development team if thats what you really want to do (got a bit bored with that so I kind of drifted beween development and support for a while).
Then the learning doesn't stop there and you can then work towards getting your MCDBA
It all depends on what you want to do ultimately (development or maintainance?)
Development is probably the more interesting one, but if you want absolute power then administration is where to go:D
I worked around 25 hours a week just to pay for my Cossy. A student with a 330bhp Cossy, oh what was I thinking :rolleyes: LOL :D
Got myself a 2.1 in business management and what did I do with it? Feck all, just started a business!! Doh!! :D
Hehe! :D I probably do prefer the development sorta thing to be honest but I've ever really done the administration side of things so can't really rule out that if I've never done it. For my placement last year I did some SAP work and didnt really like it - I felt like my hands were tied from the restrictive nature of it and it's rigid structure of 'you do it how SAP does it, not how YOU want to do it' which I found difficult to adjust to (which probably reflects my development aspirations really...) :) Of course, I could be talking complete crap cos, lets face it, I only had 6mths using it out of my 12 there and had never used it before!!
From what I can gather from people on here Bren - a very successful business! :)
Ant,
Aye, but imagine if Id started it 4 years ealier rather than going to uni ;) I could be sailing my yacht round the med now rather than having so save up for another few months :rolleyes: ROFL :D One can but dream ;) :D
Yacht - and how long before your selling mods for them??? :D
Ive already filched the V12 engine out of my Lambo so I can fit a set of Splitfires and Megaleads ready for install in the old boat ;)
Jezz_S13
01-10-2002, 19:31
Originally posted by Ant
Just askin....did any of you have part-time jobs for your Final Year and how work intensive was the final year?
Ta, :)
I was, finished a while, ago 2 years i think.
Had part time job for all but the first 4 months of the course, hours were reasonably flexible (eves etc) so didn't clash with lectures and was IT support so did have bit of time to read etc during work.
Degree work load was pretty high throughout the degree, i did very very well in the 2nd year so was able to coast the 3rd year a bit. The second year of my coarse was the most coursework intensive anyway, 3rd year wasn't too bad. I got a 1st.
Originally posted by Jezz_S13
I got a 1st.
A big round of aplause for Jez's first, well done that lad! Not an easy thing to achieve, good on ya :)
Jezz_S13
01-10-2002, 20:07
Originally posted by bren
A big round of aplause for Jez's first, well done that lad! Not an easy thing to achieve, good on ya :)
LOL, not sure whether you are taking the piss or not. :):D:D:D
Seriously though I pretty much had to switch off from life for 2 years to get it, I worked really fooking hard. Fortunately there were 3 or 4 old farts on my course like me (24-25ish at the time :D:D) and we just worked together to get stuff done.
We'd all had sh!t jobs and knew that this was the way forward so we put everything into it. We all got firsts.
Doing a degree is much easier after 3-4 years doing a crap job, for a start you are used to working 8 hours a day, only now you have the added incentive that you are doing it for yourself rather that for some fooker else. You are also just smarter full stop, you have learnt to deal with the rest of the stuff involved with being in Uni too such as living away from home and dealing with money etc.
The laughable thing now is that i canny remember hardly any of it. :D:D:D:D Makes you wonder why bother, I did get my job though which must be why.
In contrast when I finished A-levels i did an HND in Aeronautical Engineering, I had no concept of real work so I just fooked around and got shi!tfaced for 2 years. It was fantastic actaully, but not for the right reasons. I did pass, but only after resits. :o
Aye Well done Jezz
Takes a bit of work ta get a first.
I got a 2:1 + an award for best induvidual final year project (now that a mouth full).
The award got me a little wodden plaque, my name perminatly on the wall of Bradford Uni and a £100 cheque :) which when on my rent :( ahhwell
Im being serious, its not easy to get a first and it takes a lot of dedication and hard work :)
I undertstand the mature student approach. I started my degree when I was 23 so was already usd to living away from home, paying bills, scraping by in a sh1t job etc. Unlike you I took up with a bunch of party animals around my age so we tended to do sweet fa and then cram like madmen at the last minute. Seemed to work as we all got 2.1s :)
I did a bit of both ( geting pissed / working ) and just learnt as I went along as I started when I was 19, first time away from home etc.. Guess I was just a borring sod in the end (working Fri/Sat/Sanday nights).. :p
Yeh, well done Jez. I submitted my Final Project proposal today and it got approved! Yay!
Jezz_S13
01-10-2002, 20:48
Originally posted by bren
Unlike you I took up with a bunch of party animals around my age so we tended to do sweet fa and then cram like madmen at the last minute. Seemed to work as we all got 2.1s :)
LOL, yeah makes me sick that!! :D:D:D
There was this guy on my course, he had an IQ of 156, but within about 3 months he became the stereotypical piss/pill whatever head. but he was was that bastid clever he'd do exams on comedowns etc and still got a first!!!
We used to sit in the unix labs for days at a time doing bits of CWK, he'd waltz in sit down, tap a bunch of seemingly random keys, 3 hours later, print out, hand in then fook off to the pub.
Yak, I got £100 too, that went erm ah, up in smoke I think :o:o:D:D I got no wooden plaque though. :(
The years before got around £1000!!! I was gutted to say the least cos i'd already pretty much spent it in me head.
There was this guy on my course, he had an IQ of 156, but within about 3 months he became the stereotypical piss/pill whatever head. but he was was that bastid clever he'd do exams on comedowns etc and still got a first!!!
We used to sit in the unix labs for days at a time doing bits of CWK, he'd waltz in sit down, tap a bunch of seemingly random keys, 3 hours later, print out, hand in then fook off to the pub.
HE he I did sumit simular in my computing A level. I used to go into the collage commen room and fall asleep while others on the course were going course work and I used to get a ribbiong from some of them. Did my cource work in the last few weeks an got %89 for it :D. %17 higher than anyone else. feck knows how though :rolleyes:
Intended to work hard in final year as had a work placement year before it, which was supposed to settle me down :rolleyes: all it did was replenish the supply of beer tokens :D
After about a week the final yr was like the other 2 yrs, attended Uni about an hour a week (big classes so no 'rollcall') worked on course-work for a couple of hours most mornings and got bolloxed every afternoon/evening. Rarely knew what day it was :D
Ah, them was the days....got a 2.2 in Business Studies, which given the work I didn't do was fine by me.
Only worked during the holidays so still paying off my student/graduate debts (and will be for another 5 years) :eek:
Mr_Sukebe
01-10-2002, 22:55
I worked full time over the Xmas and Easter holidays, part time during the semesters, and still got a First, so I guess it wasn't too bad.
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