[Help] Moving to England

[Kezzieboy]

Hmmm, as much as we all moan (me as much as the next man, except maybe CAR, or Tom), we have a f*cking incredible country, I'd say second only to Scandinavia for standard of living, but that's because nobody here would accept such a left wing system of government (we can only dream eh?).

But I agree with the being pushed into uni thing. I specifically didn't apply, just because the lady gardens were desperate for me to. I was always one of the bright kids at school (7 GCSE A*s, etc), and succeeded despite how shit the school I went to was. But the pressure to go into uni, even though I didn't know what I wanted to do was daft. I ended up doing a Year in Industry (which I'd recommend to anyone), worked for a year, pissed my money up the wall (was being paid £13k despite essentually being an apprenctice/being on work experience), realised full time work is gash, and that I need to get into a job I really love. So I decided to go for automotive, I'd always been into cars (shocker) so now I'm working towards that, by slogging through a Mechanical/Automotive Engineering degree, which is currently all maths :/

But I'm getting paid like 7k a year after I've paid for tuition, between my uni, independent funding (a scholarship scheme, for getting a first class degree in my 1st year) and the government, of which I only have to pay around £3k a year back. I love socialism, I come from a pretty low income background (sub £20k, for what was a house of 7, at one point), and so the government has given me the funding I need to get a job that otherwise would be completely out of reach regardless of my academic ability.

Seid, move to Norway/Sweden/Finland, that's where I want to live!