Thread:User talk:Reckless Noise Symphony/Entitlement/reply (10)

I've already made the point elsewhere that degrees aren't the great leveler that they're made out to be, but I'll rehash the central thesis of it here again, because it's relevant if you're talking graduate qualifications.

I imagine that there's an analogous situation in the US, but essentially if you want a decent high paying job in the UK there's one place you need to be: London. Now, that's fine, if a little sad that your dreams of earning above minimum wage rest on one metropolitan shit-hole. Even in "this economy" that's still sort of true and those decent jobs are there and you can get them. Except... practical reasons stand in your way.

Imagine you've just graduated; student loan is at zero, you don't have anything to do with your time and you need a job, quickly. You can do this thing where you move to London and get a good one, but they're rare. You need to do two things 1) move to London 2) wait for the right job. So, you're waiting around unemployed in a really expensive city for months on end waiting for that perfect City job or whatever. How do you support yourself? Obviously your degree means nothing until you're on the career ladder so there's got to be something else. Let's just skip to the punchline: The people I know who have done this, good for them, have the bank of mummy and daddy to live on while they're getting prestigious jobs in London. The rest of us? Well, we're stuck with getting what we can as soon as possible simply because we can't afford to wait for it.