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- I chose not to go to a University for a, uhm, variety of different factors, one
was the cost involved. You work up a huge amount of debt, and it'll take years to
pay it back, and the other one was after watching my sister. She went to a
university, worked really hard, came out with a high result, and now works in the
stockroom cause that's the only available job she can find. And this made me realize
that QA Apprenticeships are a better option where you're employed from
day one. You get on job training that's more related, more suited to your subject.
- I was mainly looking at what my brother had done a few years earlier. He done a
year in university, got in a quite a lot of debt, realized that it wasn't, wasn't
his, his route. He was then taking on buying an employer, who trained him up and
he was give a job at the end of it, and he's quite successful there, so I sorta
looked at what me brother was doing and took his advice to sort of look at the
work based learning and follow that route.
- The main big option was university, and obviously I looked into it, but I've seen
a lot of my friends go off to uni and then come back, and end up in the same job that
they started in, so I picked QA Apprenticeship because at least I can go
somewhere with this.
- And the reason I chose QA Apprenticeship was uhm, I was looking for
something in the apprenticeship bracket, cause I didn't really want to go to
University. I had the experience of a sister who went to a university. She did
her 3 years, but she's now 26 and still hasn't gotten into the same career
path that she wanted to. So obviously she came out with a lot of debt, so I really
didn't want to go down that route, so QA offered me a really good apprenticeship
deal.