I think that's the standard wish of most of us with "significant life experience". OOI, I'd cross-out Electronic Engineering on that form and replace it with Medicine - but that would have required some different choices 2 years earlier.
Simply because I wasn't too keen on chemistry, my A level subjects were physics, maths and further maths. That wasn't my best choice - resulting in an A in physics, E in maths and fail in further maths. This was not a great surprise, and I had set up my UCCA choices to cope with this. OTOH it may have been that only with the double exposure to maths did I get to scrape through at all.
One thing I never realised was how much of a university engineering course is actually maths. There is just so much that I never understood, and even the bits I did grasp are lost in the mists of time. I remember my disappointment, having chosen a "Machines" option (1), to be presented with a large matrix and being told that, for the purposes of this analysis, the design details were pretty irrelevant, all large machines reduced to this grid of numbers.
It was also clearly my personal ceiling for physics - I had to re-sit in my first year at university.
I think I had managed A level on what (to me) seemed like common sense, and managed to avoid too many proofs. The university focus was rather different, and additionally I suppose I allowed myself to think I could get away with less revision than it actually needed.
Luckily, I managed eventually to find myself in a field where, as one of the old hands once told me, "All you need is Ohms law and
25 years' experience."
I was fortunate enough to find myself in some positions where my engineering, organisational and computing skills were all able to be used at once. Sadly, others were less rewarding, and eventually VR was very welcome.
I never had a calculator with buttons more complicated than square root, and that was quite sufficient for my needs.
(1) This was actually a second choice as I had originally selected Computer Science, but this was over subscribed, and I was persuaded to think again.
I had to have two goes due to a senile maths master (really; the first time, two out of 14 passed the A level, and the second time 3 out of 16; the second time, 2 of the 3 were a friend and I, and we self-studied).
My science was Nuffield Physical Science, which was fine if a bit rough round the edges (only the second year of its existence).
I had the same problem with electronics.
It didn't kick in until the second year for me.
Same here. I got through the degree on some very selective marks, and a very good project (I won the prize) [1]. Then I did a 'conversion' Master's to CS at Essex (very hard work but fun all the way). At the time, only two places offered that course and I was offered a place by both. I rejected Imperial as their course was too basic.
[1] I modified a CPU (SSI technology) to change parts of its instruction set.
It unfortunately wasn't made clear to us that for physics at Uni, A-level Pure Maths and A-level Applied Maths was barely adequate as a preparation. At least the Col recognised that and we had a whole year's course of Maths during our first year as physics students.
You mean he gets someone else to hit his balls with a stick? He should get a job as your next apprentice. Would it upset you if he was making a profit on his hobby?
Two things really pissed me off: annual appraisals, and meetings. Especially the latter made all the junior management feel so self-important and they had meetings all the ruddy time. I never wanted to become a manager, but preferred to work on my projects (computer programmer), which was far more interesting than organising people. I've never had a lot of time for managers, I'm afraid.
What do you feel about appraisals, then?!! We had to design our own "mission statement" and other total bollocks. They'd always ask, what do you want to be doing in five years' time -- expecting me to say something positive like "running the company". I think even some of the managers thought it was a complete waste of their time and mine.
So a man who loves what he does. Was true of myself for many years, but Goldsmith and his worldwide takeovers put paid to that. (Maybe I didn't help by failing to react in whatever was the proper way, whatever that might be.)
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