I haven't forgotten you...

Following on from BE's comment in the Tipster thread about my not posting very much anymore, I thought I'd just pop my head round the door and remind you all that I'm ok

Don't think I've posted extensively on here since somebody changed the name to Global GAA - it will always be GT to me!

Been incredibly busy over here for a good while now what with the academic and social life picking up a great deal. Any of you familiar with the English education system will know that the A Level years (of which I am in my second) are probably the two most important years academically for anybody who hopes to go to university - it's the time when you really need to knuckle down and get the grades you need to take you to the next level. Thus, there's a big workload and not a great amount of time to do it in!

Currently I'm doing history, Spanish, English Language and English Literature and have applied for history at uni. So far have had offers from King's College London, Edinburgh and Lancaster so big decisions to be made in the new future.

Elsewhere I'm still involved in the radio where I present the evening slot on a Tuesday night, the mountain biking season starts again Saturday week so I can't wait for that and I keep wasting my money at the weekends going to watch Sheffield Wednesday - although last week's win against Sheff United was brilliant. Heading to the glamorous Rochdale away on Saturday.

And, of course, I still love GAA. Tipp jerseys are still proudly worn around the place and the hurley gets a good deal of use still.

Hopefully I'll be able to get back on here a bit more regularly but it all remains to be seen, like I said I'm a very busy man

Anyhow it looks like you're doing perfectly well with out me!

Hope everyone is well and speak soon,

Sami

P.S. can anyone tell me where Jayo went?

SamiPremier08 wrote:Following on from BE's comment in the Tipster thread about my not posting very much anymore, I thought I'd just pop my head round the door and remind you all that I'm ok

Don't think I've posted extensively on here since somebody changed the name to Global GAA - it will always be GT to me!

Been incredibly busy over here for a good while now what with the academic and social life picking up a great deal. Any of you familiar with the English education system will know that the A Level years (of which I am in my second) are probably the two most important years academically for anybody who hopes to go to university - it's the time when you really need to knuckle down and get the grades you need to take you to the next level. Thus, there's a big workload and not a great amount of time to do it in!

Currently I'm doing history, Spanish, English Language and English Literature and have applied for history at uni. So far have had offers from King's College London, Edinburgh and Lancaster so big decisions to be made in the new future.

Elsewhere I'm still involved in the radio where I present the evening slot on a Tuesday night, the mountain biking season starts again Saturday week so I can't wait for that and I keep wasting my money at the weekends going to watch Sheffield Wednesday - although last week's win against Sheff United was brilliant. Heading to the glamorous Rochdale away on Saturday.

And, of course, I still love GAA. Tipp jerseys are still proudly worn around the place and the hurley gets a good deal of use still.

Hopefully I'll be able to get back on here a bit more regularly but it all remains to be seen, like I said I'm a very busy man

Anyhow it looks like you're doing perfectly well with out me!

Hope everyone is well and speak soon,

Sami

P.S. can anyone tell me where Jayo went?

Many issues worthy of comment, if not even debate, in Sami's post. Good to see him aspiring toward further education, someday he may even obtain a degree and become an accountant or even a teacher....
His future as head honcho of the CID looks doubtful at this juncture, but given their level of in-eptitude, anythings possible....
A'reet Sami....

Good to hear from you young Sami, and good to hear you're doing well!

I'm very surprised to see you failed to mention the outrageous sacking of Gary Megson by the Owls this week, i can only take this as a ringing endorsment for Dave "I', the one who couldn't get Cardiff promoted and NOT the one from the Monkees" Jones!

Sami has a lot in common with the Tipp hurlers.

They are all yesterdays men

Boxtyeater wrote:Good to see him aspiring toward further education, someday he may even obtain a degree and become an accountant ....

Doubtful. He always seems the honest type to me .....

Did you do this yet?

Boxtyeater wrote:

SamiPremier08 wrote: Currently I'm doing history, Spanish, English Language and English Literature and have applied for history at uni.

Good to see him aspiring toward further education, someday he may even obtain a degree and become an accountant....

Not with a degree in history, he won't. History is an interest, and would be a bit like me doing a degree in sport. (In other words, you'll love it, but no-one is going to give you a job at the end of it.)

May sound a bit harsh to a young man with a head full of dreams and adventure but, Sami, take this as the best careers advice you'll ever get: get yourself onto a course that will give you a decent chance of a good job at the end of it. You can buy all the history books you want if you have a few £ in your pocket, but you aren't likely to find any sitting on coffee tables in Jobcentre waiting rooms.

Thomas Clarke wrote:

Boxtyeater wrote:

SamiPremier08 wrote: Currently I'm doing history, Spanish, English Language and English Literature and have applied for history at uni.

Good to see him aspiring toward further education, someday he may even obtain a degree and become an accountant....

Not with a degree in history, he won't. History is an interest, and would be a bit like me doing a degree in sport. (In other words, you'll love it, but no-one is going to give you a job at the end of it.)

May sound a bit harsh to a young man with a head full of dreams and adventure but, Sami, take this as the best careers advice you'll ever get: get yourself onto a course that will give you a decent chance of a good job at the end of it. You can buy all the history books you want if you have a few £ in your pocket, but you aren't likely to find any sitting coffee tables in Jobcentre waiting rooms.

History is a pretty useless degree unless you do a postgraduate course after. But then degrees are useless on their own, they are a stepping stone to postgraduate research. If he did a postgraduate in History then he can then do a PGCE and be a teacher of history, but other than that can't think of any other uses it may have.

With that aside, enjoy Uni Sami it will go quick. I am in my final 7 weeks already, started this website 7 months before leaving!

College is a beer fest and a complete waste of time. Identify a niche in the market and go out there and start earning.

Parouisa wrote:College is a beer fest and a complete waste of time. Identify a niche in the market and go out there and start earning.

For the right person, I'd agree, although not every 18/19 year old has the enterpreneurial inclination or ability to do that.

For some, college can work, as they come out of it and get a decent job and stable salary, to help them pay back all that debt. (Note, these people are doing one of a handful of courses with career prospects, at the right universities, and coming out with very strong results in them.)

Avoid

Construction: Architecht/Surveyor/Engineer etc etc
Public Sector geared : History/Arts/Geography/Nursing
Law - Unless you can get into a large corporate firm

We or Engerland wont buld anything, make anything or increase public sector payroll this side of Haleys Comet.

We need Drugs,food and someone to count the profits and somone to work out if you should retire at 90 or 95. and then some to work out how we do that without people.

so Food Science/Pharma/IT/Financial Services/Accountants or Actuaries.

But then again I don't have a degree so take the advice with a health warning

Percolation tanks are the future. Provision, installation, get paid and Kapoom..................

A reasonably functional digger, a couple of lads, lock of hi-viz jackets and hats and Robert is your father's brother....

Boxtyeater wrote:Percolation tanks are the future. Provision, installation, get paid and Kapoom..................

A reasonably functional digger, a couple of lads, lock of hi-viz jackets and hats and Robert is your father's brother....

You might manage the same turnover as an "inspector" without any of the overhead.
Clipboard, Hi vis jacket a badge and a brown paper bag

Think the Jayo mystery is explained...

For a history degree, I disagree with the sentiments that it is useless. Much of it does come down to the fact that I enjoy the subject but from the research I have done it would appear that a degree in something like history is a good, 'stable' qualification filled with transferable skills which have the potential to take you into any type of career - especially in journalism/media/broadcasting which, as you know, I am interested in.

My personal opinion is that the more vocational/specific degrees can be good as some of you have mentioned but can also have a more detrimental effect, especially in today's economical climate. It's all well and good in having a degree in something specific but will there be a job for you at the end? At the moment, chances are pretty slim. As your degree is so specific you can't transfer it to any other career and are consequently left in the lurch so to speak.

As for the sacking of Megson, I am still struggling to get my head around such a ridiculous decision. Yes, results were not great recently but the sheer passion and dedication Megson has for the club, the fans and the players - which was clearly evident on Sunday - should not have gone unnoticed. It is also worth noting that Megson was given very little financial support and was made promises by the chairman about transfers and the like which were not kept. He did very well to keep the team in the top 3 in such a close league with such little resources. Finally, I believe it is far too late on in the season to be changing managers - it will have little positive impact in my opinion and if Manderic wanted to get rid of Gary so badly he should at least have waited until May.

OMAR wrote:

Boxtyeater wrote:Percolation tanks are the future. Provision, installation, get paid and Kapoom..................

A reasonably functional digger, a couple of lads, lock of hi-viz jackets and hats and Robert is your father's brother....

You might manage the same turnover as an "inspector" without any of the overhead.
Clipboard, Hi vis jacket a badge and a brown paper bag

Oh! I have the county franchise on that number. I was only thinking of young Sami, bringing him home to the oul' sod and seeing him set up with a money making project. Feck the whole education lark, tis' only all theory and ornate scrolls after a few years of debauchery at the taxpayers expense.....
Loads of budding enterprises coming on stream at the moment.

Apologies Sami

To my list of declining trades the traditional articulate Journo was an ommission and one that would rank fairly highly in a top ten. year on year newspaper sales are declining by the double digit(s).

What seems to be of far more interest is to announce to cyberspace that you have just put on a a frozen Pizza and are sitting down to watch the X factor. or the colour of ones stool.

Not sure of Magdalen college have that on the Syllabus yet but the dons do move slowly.

SamiPremier08 wrote:
My personal opinion is that the more vocational/specific degrees can be good as some of you have mentioned but can also have a more detrimental effect, especially in today's economical climate. It's all well and good in having a degree in something specific but will there be a job for you at the end? At the moment, chances are pretty slim. As your degree is so specific you can't transfer it to any other career and are consequently left in the lurch so to speak.

Good man Sami, and pleased to see you displaying the vigour and determination of youth. You are, unfortunately, completely wrong in your assessment of is/isn't likely to lead to a financially successful career, but your own path is the one you must follow, and it is nice to see someone pursuing a dream.

Good to see you back, and maybe we'll hear a bit more from you when the exams are out of the way in June.