Do a BA. Let him enjoy a few handy years and he can do a postgrad when he knows what heās at
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Exactly. Unless heās a pure dope, he will pass it handy enough, and still get plenty of time in for ālife developmentā (partying, riding, general hijinx)
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Heād be busy 
While that is true, youāre missing the massive jobs available to Financial Mathematicians, Biomedical Scientists / Engineers, Process Engineers, etc. right out of college. An entry level salary for a Process Engineer could be north of ā¬50k.
Spoke to a young lad going into Year 3 of Mechanical Engineering in college this year.
I passed comment that there should be good opportunities in that currently & asked what sector was he looking to?
Ah none says he, Iāll go home farming when Iām finished the course.
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Pushed into the course most likelyā¦ Shur who the fuck wants to be an engineer as a kid?
Nerds that make fuck tons of money
Heās full of shit. There are tons of jobs in that sector. Heās just a muldoon that wants to go farming, and would have been better off doing an Ag Engineering course in Mountbellew.
Heās a bright young fella but I thought it was a waste of money & place.
He said it might be useful stuff to know about the farm
Heāll surely work for a few years anyway unless heās already doing the green cert
Iāve heard some good things about open days at places like Grangegorman for a flavour of what courses are like.
Was chatting to my sister and her pal who are teachers earlier - chat to his teachers and theyāll give you/him a steer and some ideas.
A BA in Sustiabable Timber Techonology? What about landscape architecture
Failing that study something heās interested in and itāll take care of itself.
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If he wants to make money get him into auctioneering. The easiest twine any man will make, ā¬200 a valuation and if you make contacts you should be shelling ā¬150,000 a year with nice freedom, you meet new people and your job is never the same.
Interesting
Heās young, heāll figure it out . just get him to try do something thatās somewhat transferable down the road. My mate did English and psychology as his arts subjects in Mary I and heās now a clinical psychologist with the HSE. It was a long road but you get the picture.
Thereās always more than one way to skin a cat. The more important part is that he develops an interest in an area and pursues that post whatever degree he decides to do. Plenty do degrees they were pushed into by mammy and daddy and end up hating it
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lifeās too short for that.
Good opportunities to travel also with Automation / Validation roles.
Absolutely. And I can think of over 10 companies in Ireland that would bite the hand off a grad with a background in automation and validation.
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