Comments by "Pob" (@goodlookinouthomie1757) on "why university graduates like me ended up working in a warehouse" video.

I have a Computer Science degree, graduated early 2000s. I ended up as a self employed tradesman. I had an early career about 10 years at a well known tech corporation but it was absolutely awful, I hated it. A degree just isn't the right path for some people and I was one of them. I'd have been much happier if I'd done an apprenticeship straight out of school. Edit: To those asking which trade, I became a decorator. I got very ill and spent months in hospital, which was the catalyst for me to rethink my life and leave the corporate rat race. Decorating was frankly the cheapest and fastest trade to get stuck into and start my own business.
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@ In my case it was just the wrong career decision. I chose that path because it was the late 90s and computers were new and cool and I was a nerd. I thought it would be awesome to turn my hobby into a job. But I was also a farm boy and no job in an office was ever going to suit me. I had to be in a job where I was out and about doing stuff with my hands and on my own schedule.
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@ The weird thing was at my tech job, I was the only CS graduate there. The guy who I shared a desk with had graduated in botany...! Their program really just needed you to have any degree. I could have majored in 16th century theatre (which I'd have found immensely interesting) and got the exact same position. I guess to them it was just proof of some level of intelligence.
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@lekkai7473 I'm a decorator. It was the easiest and fastest trade to get into and I needed to get out of the corporate world asap as I was getting depressed and sick from it. Now I'm probably the most educated decorator in the UK.
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@ No I'm a sole trader. I have my own business but I don't employ anyone else, other than subbies for specialist work I can't manage.
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