Bye bye college debt, bye bye 2021 watches

Ok, a quick update on this thread…

So far, I have decided to NOT get a Speedy 1863 Sapphire Sandwich as I did instead add the following one:



I must admit that I am really in 🥰 with it!!!

I benefited from being paid to go to college in England late 60s to early 70s. The course squeezed an academic year into 6 months with no vacations, so we got just half of the normal annual "Student Grant"which covered 9 months of coursework and 3 months of vacation. Most of that went to my mom, with nothing left over for partying, not that I was ever a party animal. The other 6 months of each year were spent working for our sponsoring companies and getting paid apprentice rates for the time we were there And still no vacations.....

My sponsor (employer really, Stewarts & Lloyds) had a great training scheme circulating everyone into each of the departments for 3 months each, so I got to see what the whole business was about, and at the end could suggest which department I'd like to go into. Some friends on the college course were treated as cheap labour (looking at you John Thompson Ltd) and learned nothing in their time there.

Not many years after graduating as a Mechanical Engineer I got sucked into a spin-off from University of Cambridge to work on the development of software for engineers to use and thought I was on the low end of the academic achievement in that place. When a very long but never published record of the early years of that place was written recently it turned out that many more of the people working there had arrived through same route with the same qualifications, far outnumbering the mathematicians and other people we thought far cleverer.

But if their grads are getting As and it turns out they aren't really that great, it will reflect on the institution and top students will stop going there.

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