Having completed sixth form in 2011, my year group was the last
class to pay £3k per year to study for a degree. Some may see
this as lucky as the unfortunate ones an academic year behind us
would be indebting themselves treble that amount. However that
wasn't enough to persuade me to accept the offer and pack my
bags for university.
The state of the UK economy has made it very difficult for young
people to be able to fund themselves for university and find paid
jobs. Having taking that into consideration, I unleashed what I
like to call my 'inner-fearless-risk taker' and set out on
a mission to find myself a full time job. If I wasn't working
for Deloitte today I'd either be piling up the debt of
university and drowning in books or struggling to find my feet in
the world of work with the 957,000 other 16-24 year olds in the UK
who were unemployed in June-August 2012 (source: ONS).
