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[Carrots Gladstone]

Originally Posted by Tam o' Shantie

i'll pay you money if you stop talking about being a student (which as freshers week/term progresses has the potential to evolve to talking about being a wacky student)

srsly though, use your imagination ffs. buy smartprice food, shop at lidl when possible and home cook large meals that you can portion out and freeze. drink before you go out, and go out on cheap nights to cheap places.

Don't be such a miserable cunt, the boy's excited, and so he should be - moving out and going to uni/college whatever is exciting!

10 bloody years ago for me.

[Tam o' Shantie]

Piss off, I don't care and I hate students that think that being a student is a topic of conversation (which all of them do).

[The Kernel Loaf]

Originally Posted by Tam o' Shantie

Piss off, I don't care and I hate students that think that being a student is a topic of conversation (which all of them do).

Fucking amen, I hate students. I just happen to study where they do.

[Adam Easy Wishes]

Originally Posted by Le Stu

Study hard and join the chess club.

Yeah, deffo. Then you'll get plenty of knuckle sandwiches from the jocks in the rugby team which will keep you going 'til you can throw together some beans on toast for your tea.

[RockAustin]

No store cards, no credit cards.

Don't work so much that you have no time to hang out with your mates, it's better having less money and heaps of laughs than being the well off one that has no time, get a good balance. You'll need time for study too I suppose

You'll mainly just learn as you go. It's all very well people writing down advice about what to avoid but chances are you'll get into a few sticky spots along the way. It's not a bad thing though as you learn from those mistakes for later in life when there is potentially more money at stake.

Have fun.

[Le Stu]

Originally Posted by Adam Easy Wishes

Yeah, deffo. Then you'll get plenty of knuckle sandwiches from the jocks in the rugby team which will keep you going 'til you can throw together some beans on toast for your tea.

Yes, indeed. My general recommended strategy is to become a social outcast and therefore massively reduce the possibility of blowing all of your cash on booze/weed/girls. Of course you may end up on prozac and flunk anyway but at least you can say you balanced the books!

[Ithaca]

Don't be a student, enter the work market now, get at least four years ahead of your peers (as they rack up crippling debt for a degree that's as usefull as a provebial piss flavoured lolly-pop only then to decide to be a teacher - it's either that or working full time in the pub - because they are skint, 'over qualified' or have just realised they've paid a shit load of time and money for a BA in Mickey Fucking Mouse to do anything else worthwhile), and then sit back with a smile upon your employed, experianced, well paid or well-on-the-way-up-the-corporate-ladder face.

Unfortunatly, some jobs / careers do require degrees as a minimum and therefore I recommend spending your student loans on drugs and selling them to your fellow students at a higher price (the fact that there is two of you is good as it'll share the risk, double the sales team and mean larger quantaties can be initially purchased). This will create profit. Repeat this process with perhaps some re-investment from time to time and this should help your financial situations quite a bit. It should be noted however, that there are some risks involved here.

[Le Stu]

There is truth to what Ithaca says. Everyone is rushing into the universities to escape this depression *cough* sorry downturn and there's gonna be a massive amount of graduates in about three years time and no fucking jobs for them. Crazy! My plan is to stay out and get what fucking work I can, save like £30K and then fund the whole fucking thing privately, maybe even piss off overseas.

[scottyboy]

Get a nondescript office job with an oil company so you too can go off on bitter rants against people with degrees.

[Ithaca]

Originally Posted by scottyboy

Get a nondescript office job with an oil company so you too can go off on bitter rants against people with degrees.

The fact of the matter is, that people who get nondescript degrees are now struggling to even get the nondescript office jobs with oil companies, let alone anything else.