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Omie Jay

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Ive been finding engineering at uni pretty hard and im starting to think maybe its not for me.

I have no idea what i want to be doing for the rest of my life, if i manage to finish my degree then i'll probably become a generic engineer or some sort, but as i said before im finding uni quite hard.

If i decide to quit uni, what are some good jobs that dont require a degree?

Im sure i can start off by working at woolies/coles/aldi (i know aldi offers $19.50 or so per hour just for stock replenisher), or a department store like DJ's/Myer (they wont offer any less than $20 per hour i reckon), but what else is there?

How about in the long run?
 
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I imagine you would be the type to be quite an Entrepreneur.

Sales of any type.

Physical jobs.

Hospitality
 

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A trade. Pay is crap as an apprentice (not to mention there's none going at the mo :S) but is pays out in the end.
 

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plz for the love of god avoid coles/safeway like the black plague...unless ur gunning for a management job their...but even their pretty hard 2 get due to every1 wanting 2 b manager.
 

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Prostitution. Fucking good pay, and it's better when you're dumb.
 

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doing security work for supermakrets
all they do is sit there
and look around
and get paid something like 35 dollars an hour
 

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Heaps of jobs out there, but without a degree you don't really have much option to further your career. If you want to do the same job forever, idk.

Try TAFE or some shit.
 

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uno ever since i started uni ive been thinking abit like that, like i should quit and just stick with a job which doesnt require a degree and just stick at it - but i think ill stick through uni and then decide wat type of direction i want to go career wise.
anyway omie jay i hope watever decision u make turns out good 4 u
 

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the cool thing with taking a gap year (which I wish I took, but I didn't) was that you can spend time working and thinking over that time what you aspire to do in the future.

When you make your decision to take on further education after that, you might have a clearer and more focused outlook.
 

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the cool thing with taking a gap year (which I wish I took, but I didn't) was that you can spend time working and thinking over that time what you aspire to do in the future.

When you make your decision to take on further education after that, you might have a clearer and more focused outlook.
yeah im starting to think i should have taken a gap year...
 

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me too, mabe i should take a half gap year next semester..

i wonder if i can even do that..
Omie Jay,
Are you finding engineering hard or not interesting?

Because that is very important.

If just hard, then harden up and hang in there.
BUT
If not interesting, then GTFO uni, maybe take a GAP year, Tafe, full-time work.
 
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Omie Jay,
Are you finding engineering hard or not interesting?

Because that is very important.

If just hard, then harden up and hang in there.
BUT
If not interesting, then GTFO uni, maybe take a GAP year, Tafe, full-time work.
this

doesnt OJ to mechatronic engineering? thats like moving dynamic statics....ooooh shiiit
 

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Omie Jay,
Are you finding engineering hard or not interesting?

Because that is very important.

If just hard, then harden up and hang in there.
BUT
If not interesting, then GTFO uni, maybe take a GAP year, Tafe, full-time work.
I agree. If its just "hard", then maybe you should just take a gap year or a semester off, and then go back to uni. But i reckon that you should just give it your best shot, because tbh, no degree is easy, even if you transfer to another field at uni, it'll still require heaps of work and shit. If you plan to spend your whole life without a uni degree, then goodluck with that, because you really wont be able to climb far up the career ladder, you'll be stuck at coles/woolies for quite a while.
 

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