I'm sitting here alone and remembering the time when I was taking the same steps as my younger brother is right now.

The thrill and hope of the results, the upheval of moving away to uni and the new world opening up in front of you...

As much as I tell myself that life is rich at each and every juncture, there's a small part of me that envies him the freedom and all those new experiences.

Maybe I'm just feeling the weight of all these years...maybe it's the melancholy of drinking alone.

But I'd just like to wish all the new students in Sheffield and across the country the best in their first year at university.

To quote Jean-Luc Picard:

"How I envy you...you're just at the start of the journey..."

How I wish I was given the opportunity of Uni..my parents just could not afford it???? That's how it was in my day!

Originally posted by Shiesh
How I wish I was given the opportunity of Uni..my parents just could not afford it???? That's how it was in my day!
Mine could...and they didn't seem to find that fact any kind of consolation!

I left school in 1964 aged 15, to carry on and take O level, A level and then university wasnt even part of the equation. We were "factory fodder". Choices made available to me were - coal, foundry, or steel. The system in those days denied and disencouraged young people of working class origin to take O level- the then equivalent of GCSE. Today youngsters have all the chances. I wish them all good luck, the world is now open to them.

I summed up your fellings this morning on my way to work, Carmine.
I said to the missis "If only I was 19 & know what I know now".

Melancholy is bad enough mate but, accentuated with a nip of falling down water is a real downer!

I'm 40 soon & really looking foreward to it. :thumbsup:

Look to the future, I'm hoping to be a millionaire by Feb 2006.

There's still time & I have a cunning plan :D

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
I summed up your fellings this morning on my way to work, Carmine.
I said to the missis "If only I was 19 & know what I know now".

Melancholy is bad enough mate but, accentuated with a nip of falling down water is a real downer!

I'm 40 soon & really looking foreward to it. :thumbsup:

Look to the future, I'm hoping to be a millionaire by Feb 2006.

There's still time & I have a cunning plan :D
Good for you!:thumbsup:

aahh u gotta love cunning plans :D :D

I have one too, i just need to invent time travel and im set :D

oh how i would love to grow my hair long,sleep all day and collect traffic cones........life has passed me by:|


:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

bloody students...........tomorrows do gooders:mad:

Originally posted by kirky
oh how i would love to grow my hair long,sleep all day and collect traffic cones........life has passed me by:|


:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

bloody students...........tomorrows do gooders:mad:

What about being a mature student?

You could show them how to do it properly :D

That made me smile today----- and not much would

hazel

Originally posted by Nimrod
I left school in 1964 aged 15, to carry on and take O level, A level and then university wasnt even part of the equation. We were "factory fodder". Choices made available to me were - coal, foundry, or steel. The system in those days denied and disencouraged young people of working class origin to take O level- the then equivalent of GCSE. Today youngsters have all the chances. I wish them all good luck, the world is now open to them.

Yes remember it well.Left school 1961.Aged 15 Walked out of school Friday ...started work on Monday. 44 hrs a week for £3 no choice in the matter.Good luck get all the qualifications you can get.Dont get your hands mucky theres no money in that ,use your head.:thumbsup:

Originally posted by scottf
What about being a mature student?

You could show them how to do it properly :D

i'm to old to collect traffic cones:|

I went to uni in 1988, my year's intake was the last year who could obtain a full grant. I was lucky enough to have that full grant. After paying my rent I ended up with £60 a week to spend on whatever I liked and finished uni three years later with no debt.

I still remember my fresher's week, rushing around meeting as many people as possible, getting tied to a stranger on a three legged pub crawl, drinking so much I was sick several times that week and learning to live in a hall of residence and respecting volume levels on my record player. I look back with many, many fond memories.

Then the work started and I had essays to write and it wasn't much fun after that. Well, it was really. I learned a lot and met many good friends who I'm still in touch with today.

Originally posted by scottf
What about being a mature student?

You could show them how to do it properly :D

Nah, to a grown up the glamour of the traffic cone has been lost. :( No longer are they an objet d'art for your scruffy flat; they are now merely those things you need to save yerself a parking space outside your house.

I don't think I could cope with being a student nowadays. I couldn't deal with the huge debt burden I would incur.

However I could definitley go back to being a young, fit, goodlooking...

Oh wait. That was never me.

I left school in 1952 age nearly 16 after taking O'levels and started work the followng Monday 44 hrs a wk includinng Sat morning
No thought of A levels or Uni.

hazel

Originally posted by burnttoast
Yes remember it well.Left school 1961.Aged 15 Walked out of school Friday ...started work on Monday. 44 hrs a week for £3 no choice in the matter.Good luck get all the qualifications you can get.Dont get your hands mucky theres no money in that ,use your head.:thumbsup: my story is the same left in 65, started work three days later 37shillings and 6pence per 40 hour week, no careers officer,just a bloke in the head teachers office,3 minutes chat and a note to see a manager at the english steel, the advice he gave me was simple " tell im you like fishin, you will get a job"

I left school in 84, signed on and I'm still doing it now.

Thankyou good people of Sheffield for your contributions to my life of leisure.

Uni wasn't an option in my circumstances at the time.

Originally posted by hazel
I left school in 1952 age nearly 16 after taking O'levels and started work the followng Monday 44 hrs a wk includinng Sat morning
No thought of A levels or Uni.

hazel

didn't realise mcdonalds were around in them days:)

Originally posted by wearetherobots
I left school in 84, signed on and I'm still doing it now.

Thankyou good people of Sheffield for your contributions to my life of leisure.

Uni wasn't an option in my circumstances at the time.

thicko

Darnall Day Nusery Kirky, Loved working there

You never know perhaps you went there. ;)

hazel

Originally posted by hazel
Darnall Day Nusery Kirky, Loved working there

You never know perhaps you went there. ;)

hazel

i did about 1967:)

Missed you there then by a long way but diid I get you at Handsworth First School ?? :(

hazel

Originally posted by kirky
thicko

:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: LMAO:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

Originally posted by kirky
oh how i would love to grow my hair long,sleep all day and collect traffic cones........life has passed me by:|


:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

bloody students...........tomorrows do gooders:mad:

Have you got a downer on everyone? Haven't read a positive post from you yet.

Originally posted by kirky
thicko

Definitely a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

Originally posted by wearetherobots
Definitely a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
... shame on your sorry superiority complex.

(quote from one of your earlier rants)

Look to the future, I'm hoping to be a millionaire by Feb 2006.

There's still time & I have a cunning plan :D

Hows the plan going don?

The folly of it all.
Youth is wasted on the young.-GBS

However I could definitley go back to being a young, fit, goodlooking...

Oh wait. That was never me.

Same here but it's always going to be me NEXT month/year/decade......

Hows the plan going don?


Looks like it got postponed!!

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=87303

Wow toasty where did you get such good cash,I only got 15 shillings& had to give mum 12 for board,2shilling a week went to new bike having to bike 12 miles to work,I had a tight grasp on my shilling,sometimes for almost a day.

same as a lot of others. Left school easter 58 and started work at C&A when they opened on the tuesday.
Consolation prize....met a girl who is still my best friend after 48 years