what degree would you do if you got 100 uai (1 Viewer)

[fishy89sg]

id do BCom at UNSW lulz

 

[~untitled~]

Probably medicine somewhere.
Or speech pathology @ UQ

 

[Captain Gh3y]

'I'm so smart, I got into law with a 100UAI and I was 0.45 UAI points over the cut off...beat that!'
'I was 53 points above mine'

meh

I'm about 30 over mine

 

[ahen]

B God

 

[~untitled~]

meh

I'm about 30 over mine

Haha, will probably be underneath the uai cutoff... <3 being in a povo school

 

[Tulipa]

B God

Who is that chick in your av?

She looks so fucking familiar.

 

[Trebla]

Me and some friends have been doing some research, and i realy dont get whats with commerce and law. Law graduates from sydney after honors year, get only 80k? thats not much for 6 years of study and considering your one of the smartest guys in sydney. Go be a miner in w.a and you get about the same.

Any ideas about whats the best course to do?
it would be good if a uni graduate or someone at uni could tell me what the pay is like for the different degree graduates.

Not everyone is hungry for money like you...

Seriously, no matter what UAI you end up getting you should stick with your interests. There's no point putting yourself through torturous boredom, just for the sake of earning extra dollars. It's not worth it.

Law is actually quite an interesting and useful course. A lot of the people I know who do law actually enjoy it, sometimes because they love finding excuses to sue people for..

Also, if you are the type of person who likes swimming in a pool of cash, don't judge your choice of degree based on starting graduate salaries. These can change over time and in the future the lower paid graduates may end up in a higher paid position. So for example, if Person A is earning 80 000 a year straight after graduation and Person B is earning 100 000 a year just after graduation. In the near future, Person A may end up getting a higher paid job earning 120 000 a year and Person B may stick with the 100 000 a year job. So it really depends on how well you handle the workplace in the future. You'll get a lot more money coming in if you start your own successful business, make a scientific breakthrough, discover a cure for cancer...etc...Who knows?

On a side note, do NOT get the impression that just because you're 'smart' then you'll be getting a highly paid job. Virtually dumb/talentless people like Paris Hilton get paid more than any lawyer or doctor will ever get. If you really love the money, you might as well break into the entertainment industry...LOL

 

[Captain Gh3y]

Yeah but we all don't want to be kiddy fiddlers

I'm not studying to be a Priest

 

[ahen]

Who is that chick in your av?

She looks so fucking familiar.

Katherine Moennig

 

[Beeno]

Not everyone is hungry for money like you...

Seriously, no matter what UAI you end up getting you should stick with your interests. There's no point putting yourself through torturous boredom, just for the sake of earning extra dollars. It's not worth it.

Law is actually quite an interesting and useful course. A lot of the people I know who do law actually enjoy it, sometimes because they love finding excuses to sue people for..

Also, if you are the type of person who likes swimming in a pool of cash, don't judge your choice of degree based on starting graduate salaries. These can change over time and in the future the lower paid graduates may end up in a higher paid position. So for example, if Person A is earning 80 000 a year straight after graduation and Person B is earning 100 000 a year just after graduation. In the near future, Person A may end up getting a higher paid job earning 120 000 a year and Person B may stick with the 100 000 a year job. So it really depends on how well you handle the workplace in the future. You'll get a lot more money coming in if you start your own successful business, make a scientific breakthrough, discover a cure for cancer...etc...Who knows?

On a side note, do NOT get the impression that just because you're 'smart' then you'll be getting a highly paid job. Virtually dumb/talentless people like Paris Hilton get paid more than any lawyer or doctor will ever get. If you really love the money, you might as well break into the entertainment industry...LOL

I agree. You don't have to be smart to be rich.

When I say this using examples of people are rich but not necessarily highly intelligent, I get responses such as "that's 1/100000000 people" and "what makes you think you can be one of those people?". I say "WHY FUCKING NOT?"

I admire people who are so dedicated in their studies and achieve high in the HSC but personally I also think those who are lazy (like me) and haven't yet studied yet (9 days to the English exam) and still achieve awesome marks should be as well.

BTW WDF is wrong with starting off with $80k ?? I'm planning to do a Communications course at University to get into journalism/adveristing/public relations and they start off with around $40k! I don't mind. Geez. Money whores. Besides you can definately earn more in future. Hard work in the workplace pays off (not necesarily the HSC). My teacher's sister did a Communications course at UWS (Yeah taht's right UWS) majoring in Public Relations and she now earns $400k working as a publicist

I'd be happy earning $150k

 

[Captain Gh3y]

Hard work in the workplace pays off (not necesarily the HSC). My teacher's sister did a Communications course at UWS (Yeah taht's right UWS) majoring in Public Relations and she now earns $400k working as a publicist

I'd be happy earning $150k

End of. Some of these people think the world will owe them a 200k salary because they got a high UAI.

 

[xxJTxx]

Ooo fun discussion.

Fact of the matter is, employers want experience - a tertiary education isn't experience. Whatever field your in, your not going to be paid THAT much first year out, just cause you went and got your degree..like congratufriggenlations, how many other people did that?

It's true, an employer won't pay you for your high UAI.

And if you think law is oh so glamorous, unless you have something the hundreds of other people who are applying for work the same as you, you still won't be earning that much. And you won't be happy, if you just did for the money, cause:
i) you won't have the money
ii) you won't be passionate enough to put up with the crap you'd get as a junior to stick around and wait for it to get better

Oh and all that bs on natural intelligence and whatever the other one was...who really cares. Fact of the matter is, whatever type of 'intelligence' you think you are, we're all competing in the hsc anyway...so be naturally intelligent or be a hard worker, the hsc doesn't even care.

 

[the hsc sucks]

speaking as a first year uni student, i got what i consider to be a great uai (87.85) and got into the degree i wanted. i am enjoying the course but the uai means NOTHING once u get into uni. thats all its useful for. and uni is a shitload harder (but more interesting) than the HSC. it takes a lot of work to get credits and distinctions etc and then theres the need to work and socialise as well.

basically, pick something u are interested in and can see urself doing for a long time. cos if u change ur mind, im betting there will be other study involved to get to do what u decide is better.

and finally, once u reach the end of ur degree, prospective employers will look at ur tertiary study results and work experience. ur uai is redundant once u get to uni.

 

[Plunkdogg]

if i got 100 uai
id do a B of learning to get a life =)

 

[somewhereelse]

i'd do liberal studies (international) at sydney.. and take the $5000 they give you to go overseas!

but i can do it anyway with a uai of 85. so, sitting pretty atm

 

[ahen]

if i got 100 uai
id do a B of learning to get a life =)

hear hear!
( or is it here here?, no hear hear seems more grammatically correct...)

 

[~LEAH~]

thats not much for 6 years of study and considering your one of the smartest guys in sydney.
cheers guys

Why only guys? I may have missed something here but wouldn't you be one of the smartest people in Sydney if you're taking that view?

 

[morganforrest]

Why only guys? I may have missed something here but wouldn't you be one of the smartest people in Sydney if you're taking that view?

Yes but clearly men harbour superior intellects so it's really only the guys he'd be concerned with...

ckkthxbai

 

[matt4]

cool

you mean if you had a 100 UAI you'd do what you like and not the most difficult degree to get into just because?

you'll never have prestige, or a 200k 1st year graduate salary with that kind of thinking!

your a fucking idiot wat kind of life do you have with 200k yes its money but going to work everyday and hating it for the rest of your life???

for me its Civil Engineering start next year

 

[~LEAH~]

Yes but clearly men harbour superior intellects so it's really only the guys he'd be concerned with...

ckkthxbai

It seems that way. :mad1: I mean a woman becoming a lawyer!:rofl: What was she thinking?!