After collage 99% of you will be flipping burgers at the nearest fast food place.
For people that didn't go to collage and doesn't have huge fucking loans to pay off, instead they went straight to work and got themself a house and car and family and all you got is huge depts and a wasted life.
Sure it was fun at the time you were in collage with all the babes and partying.
The rest of us will be laughing at you flipping burgers while we drive by in our expencive cars and not have to live in a 1 room appartment with 5 other guys that can bearly pay the rent and have to sell themself to corrupt politicans to be their toyboys.?
only if you do basket weaving and Jamaican studies
if you do something useful like science, maths, engineering you will be set.... and if you do something that gets you into the smoke and mirrors world of pushing money round in big circles, selling money you dont own and making a metric ton of money back (aka the finance world), then you are also set and will definately be driving expensive cars before your 30's
having said that, if you're an engineer in the UK, you can pretty much expect to be on mediocre income for the rest of your life. if i stay where i am now, my monthly income wont change significantly for...well, a very long time. i.e. a decade. part of the reason why im either a) moving else where or b) going to the dark side... banking.
Oh right the car that was engineered by people with scientific and technical backgrounds who probably studied at some point. And how many objects in your household involve some sort of semiconductor? Most of that was engineered by people holding various degrees.
Btw, I'm living in a big flat (100 m?, 4 rooms, 2 balconies), didn't run into any debt and my career prospects involve little burger flipping (mostly research and development), but thanks for asking
edit: Watch Idiocracy if you want to see what the absence of smart people leads to.
it is true, engineering plays a significant part in making the world go round.....our cars, power, water, housing, computers, almost everythign we use in modern life was designed and engineered, oft using technology developed by scientists and researchers. trouble is, its a cant see the wood for the trees world... no one pays attention to it, they just take it for granted. alot of people are ignorant to how power is produced, how cars work, boilers, washing machines etc etc. they dont care, they just use it and to hell with the clever men and women behind it.
ultmately, money is underlying driving force of the world and the closer you are to it, the more money you make... engineering isnt close enough.