To go to University or not…

For	Against
Returning to study will be a rewarding experience	Returning to study will cost an arm and a leg
It will empower me to meet new people	I’m crap with new people
Three or four years of hardship and hard work will eventually pay for it’s self	Three or four years of hard work might prove to be too stressful, especially if both wage earners stop earning
The shortfall could be remedied by renting out the spare room.	Previous experience of lodgers could write an abundance of horror stories
If I don’t go now I’ll be 40 and unemployable by the time I get out of Uni	If I go to uni now I’ll miss out on crucial stages of what career progression I have
It’ll be a good laugh	It’ll be too much of a good laugh like last time and I’ll cock it up again
I can do something I’ve always been interested in	I’ve been interested in a whole lot of things before and they’ve come to nought or I find them really boring on closer examination
It might be the break I need	Can’t argue with that I need a break. But I’m scared I’ll get too complacent and laze about again
It’ll bring back my confidence	So will a lot of things but it’s not entirely confidence I need; it’s inspiration.
It’ll open up new possibilities	New possibilities mean a break from the stability of the norm
If I went to Huddersfield Uni I might get to meet Patrick Stewart or judestar	Then again I might not
Do I know? I can be a right stick in the mud sometimes. It’s a wonder that everyone has still got patience with me	Yes I know. Most people that have known me long enough though accept that is the way I am.

What Course would I do	For	Against
Drama	Drama skills are key to successful negotiation tactics and help develop customer service skills	Everybody does drama now. I’ll be hard pressed to make it in the drama world now because I’m over 25 and I don’t have a face that makes women go all gooey in the tummy. Like hey? Do I look like George Clooney? Do I fuck!
	I know I’m a natural actor.	Everyone thinks they can act. It’s like singing, I can sing but there are those that think they can too but are awful
	I would meet people with similar interests	I’ll meet a load of campers. I’ll meet a load of people with egos as big as Mandy Dingle’s arse. I’ll end up wanting to kill them all.
	I might become a successful actor	My ego isn’t big enough. Also there is a hell of a lot of people out there with bad shit on me that’d love to sell it to the papers.
	It would be a fantastic opportunity to work with kids and get into youth work	I’ll probably end up hating kids
Media/Film	I’ve always wanted to make a movie.	You and forty million other guys
	I’ll meet people with similar interests	Again, a load of self opinionated wankers who all think they are the next Sam Raimi or David Lynch
	It could be a rewarding experience and provide inspiration	It might be the worse thing you’ve ever done and then you’ll spend ages trying to get back into full time employment
	I got quite envious of violent_purple when she was doing it at college	Yeah but even she said the course was full of wankers.
Civic Design	I really enjoyed doing land use planning and I’m a real saddo when it comes to reading planning applications	Yes. I said it. A saddo. Besides, I was well into law when I’d left Kilners. Resulting in wasting an entire year doing the ILEX course which made me miss Series 3 of X-Files.
	When I went to Liverpool John Moores to speak to that Professor he was more than happy for me to take the course on	I had only recently left HSE and therefore had the experience. That experience is now nearly 10 years old and worth arse.
	A qualification in civic design will look better than an arts degree. Plus I could branch into consulting and earn £££££££’s	More money = More stress = less time at home doing fuck all
	Civic design would present an opportunity to get into local government and do things	So does accepting backhanders and being a bully. You would do neither of these
Environmental studies	I’m interested in the environment and what I can do to help save it	It will probably involve a lot of physics and maths. Physics bores the tits off me and maths is arse too.
	The maths will probably be all about statistics. Statistics skills are good for high end management skills	Statistics suck. I did them at GCSE and they hurt my head.
	It would open doors to me and give access to well paid outside jobs	If they haven’t already been snapped up. Plus they are dependant on funding and funding is only viable while the economy is on the bulge. Soon as the next lot get into government the country will go tits up.
	I can find excuses for anything	It’s because I’m weak

Edit: 2023 Stegzy here – I went to Uni. I did Media and Journalism at Hudderfield which I topped up to a Television Production BA degree. Technically I later ended up working in television but not in Production – in national broadcasting infrastructure.