There will not be a lot of blogging today.
I am on the university taxi run, bringing my son's stuff home after three years at University in Leeds.
That's a big day. I am taking it off.
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Best of luck to your son as he embarks the next stage of his journey – what does he want to do?
My eldest son has just finished his second year and will be starting a job for his placement year in two weeks’ time.
Hope the roads are kind to you today (and that you can fit everything in the car).
Craig
Thanks Craig
I have all this to come from September this year.
And I hope it went well for him.
A 2:1 is virtually guaranteed based on prior results
The tough task is finding work
That’s proving hard for him and many of his friends
What a fantastic bequeathment to our young – worked like dogs at school through GCSEs and A levels, forced into debt at University and then what?
Shameful.
He is deeply aware of the loathing this government and its chosen economic system have for him
That’s worth a lot
I would say “enjoy the time together” but I expect you will be spending hours on the road in the summer sun, so perhaps not so enjoyable.
It may be too late now, but a trip to Leeds today could have been combined with an enjoyable diversion to Headingley!
Hope your son gets the results he wants, and best of luck for his future endeavours.
I was in Headingley yesterday afternoon – but on the way to Ilkley for a final moors walk of his time here.
The next stage is interesting. I am encouraging him to blog it
Deprived of my now almost daily ritual of a refreshingly informed dose of commentary from this website over breakfast, I turned instead to Prof. Danny Dorling and came across a piece (I think recent) titled the “Trickle up of Fear”.
Interesting stuff on the worst period of wages growth this country has suffered since the Napoleonic era.
I did wonder however if anybody had produced a time series looking at average pay over the last fifty years with the average wage of either the top 10, 5 or 1% taken out.
I ask because despite living and working in what is supposed to be one of the wealthiest parts of the country my own experience over the years, and I know how unreliable that might be as a sample, suggests that the currently official ONS estimate of average wage is considerably too high.
I am not familiar with it
I will ask some I know
Just enjoy the day; for its own sake.
Did postgrad at Leeds – great place – great time. Decades ago.
Hope the day – and the rest of his life – is everything he and you wish for him.
Thanks
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