Does anyone go into arts actually expecting career prospects? I know I didn't, though heading into my fifth year of my Arts undergrad, I'm starting to question whether it was such a good idea to choose my degree simply because it seemed interesting and I wanted to delay the prospect of beginning a 'career' for as long as I could.
I have a history degree which didnt really lead to a job, but got a job in a bar and did that for a year working all the shifts I could... work is its own benefit, now im on a 15k full time job, which for my age is a damn good starting salary at this time... working at mcdonalds might not be the most rewarding thing but itll look a lot better in a job interview than doing nothing
@ghandi8749 Why not just learn it in your spare time and do something useful at university? I study philosophy using books, I don't need a qualification to prove to other people I know philosophy.
@420chilldude Because there is a dramatic difference between studying it by your self in your spare time, and as a degree. Also, what makes philosophy not useful? I think it's useful, helps you think rationally among many other things. And i'm not trying to prove to other people that I know philosophy, i'm taking it because I enjoy it.......
@ghandi8749 By useful I mean useful in job prospects, earning money etc., that's one of the main purposes of going to university - learning skills for work. Philosophy is just as useful as exercising in terms of job skill.
And no there is no dramatic difference, the same thing they teach you in class you can learn from books.
This song should be played to all school leavers. Many of my friends with art degrees are struggling to find work. I studied medicine at university, and I am enjoying my career even though it is extremely hard work at times and I am faced with life and death decisions on a daily basis.
Actually you won't get a job flipping burgers or working a blue-collar job either because those jobs aren't there. An arts degree used to get you a job in an office. Now it doesn't.
I did first and national diploma art before going onto bsc (HONs) fashion management. I love, although getting a job after will probably be hard all though I have one it's not the job I want to do for the rest of my life.
It depends on what the degree is in. If it's a degree that's worth -£9,000 then yeah, but Medicine or Law, there's good money in that, and a long-lasting career if you don't mess up. Don't go to University if you haven't looked up the requirements for the job you want/need, half the jobs out there don't need degrees.. Research FIRST, not after (:
i got a 2.1 in an arts degree, i love my artwork and my style. and i worked my arse off!! now am only wiping arses for a living in a crappy care home 13 hours a day on min wage....but am thankful i have a job...but most days id rather be unemployed.
To be a successful artist you need charisma and must know how to sell yourself. You cannot approach the job like a plumber or mechanic would. You must have a larger-than-life personality that will draw attention to yourself. Take Dali, Picasso, Warhol. They deliberately acted weird so as to draw attention to themselves.
An alternative is getting a 2.1 BSc (Hons.. although honestly, why do people bother with that Hons part?) Economics and Statistics at a top 10 university (internationally).... and then become a spreadsheet monkey.
Love this song. Spot on. Never trust an office worker (be they a doctor or an accountant) who hasn't at some point in their career flipped a burger or lifted a plank of wood.
@bellsxx7 hahah awesome. I skipped the work in sales and unemployment, and went straight into Masters after my BA thanks to hearing stories like yours. Thanks for the heads up.
Haha, so true! But hey, you studied something you actually like and you didn't sell your soul, so you'll somehow get a job you enjoy. Or maybe you already have an awesome job, who knows. :) Or I'm just still extremely naive. And drawing snails is fuuuuun! ^-^
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What's up with ripping off the University of Melbourne's logo? Surely you could have found something more generic (for example, one without a major national symbol featured prominently).
@danbfconnor apologies, it's not meant as any slight on Melbourne, have no idea about it as a uni, it just suited my photoshopping requirements. and was one of the first things that came up when I searched 'uni logos'. Sorry
problem is, when sending everyone to university was first tossed around as an idea, the purpose was to get people doing technical degrees to create a highly skilled workforce... instead we have a lot of people who know about poetry, plato and the history of the french revolution but not about anything that, you know, leads to jobs... except for academia... plenty of "academics" around now, so at least they can publish books for students to buy... so those students can become academics...
@TheJinkedful I think you need to become a lot more open-minded. The arts (i.e. fillm,poetry, fiction, drama, philosophy, history, painting, sculpting, etc.) are the most important aspects of human life. They allow people each to give their own take on the world, to express themselves. They create beauty: why do so many people go to see Mona Lisa? They provide a means by which humanity as a whole can ask fundamental questions about life. They are what REALLY MATTERS.
@JimmyJoseph91 I think you need to cool it with the assumptions. I have a very active appreciation of poetry, philosophy, history and high art. I nearly did English. Then i realised that rather than adding to the arts, ruthless criticism and analysis harms them. The aim is not to apprecaite or understand, it is to manipulate to pass some exams. Learning about literature passed a-level degrades it. You ought to have developed the necessary skills to study independently, without needing grading.
@TheJinkedful What assumptions? What ruthless criticism? What are you saying? The very reason for analysing and critiqueing art is to gain a better undersatnding of it. Please, look up the verbs 'to criticise' and 'to critique'- - when studying Arts, the latter verb is the one most appropriate. The goal of third-level education was originally to help people to become more rounded individualls, able to properly express themselves and most importantly, to endow them with the critical spirit.
@JimmyJoseph91 You assumed i wasn't open minded when the reverse is true. And once you have learned to analyse and criticise at a-level, what is the purpose in continuing the studies, bar leisure? You are being graded on skills you already learned, while not gaining any information you couldn't teach yourself. And when you leave you have become a pretentious little prick who can't find a job because, shockingly, being able to analyse poems isn't useful in factories, banks, or office blocks.
@TheJinkedful I think when university was conceived we were more worried about the black plague than technical workskills. And arts subjects are an irrelevant hobby? Shockingly, pythagoras' theorum, Plancks constant, and general relativity aren't that useful in boardrooms, banks or office blocks either. Abstract learning is just a way of proving you're smart, hardworking and can think on your toes. If you think number crunching is more useful than lateral thinking, you're the snob.
@thejackroller The idea of sending everyone to university comes from the 1990's reforms of the Major government, with the intention of creating a technically skilled workforce. It was about academics in older times, and still is to an extent if you go to a top 10 institution. But 90% of students don't. I didnt say "irrelevant" hobby, but yes they are hobbies. Compete with a number crunching lateral thinker, which is what a decent economics course ought to give you... ie applicable knowledge.
As I told my boy when he said he wanted to study history "When was the last time you saw someone reach for the Yellow Pages and say "Quick! I need an historian, I need one now and I don't care what it costs!"?
@IrelandsPatriot whatever man! Science is the anything but fucking shallow and material! Its about giving everything possible to solve problems and better the world! There is nothing challenging about reading a book and saying its good and bad points.
I see your point of view, but you take into account the feelings x,000s of art graduates that are currently seeking employment. Maby you should drive your self to make more motivational tunes for the world rather than spreading your depressing sh**t
I see your point of view, but you take into account the feelings x,000s of art graduates that are currently seeking employment. Maby you should drive your self to make more motivational tunes for the world rather than spreading your depressing shit!
ha, i do a BA and find this hilarious. (but mostly because my degree consists of 3 foreign languages so i'll never be unemployed. so take that science!)
and i don't think spelling Nietzsche wrong is the worst thing in the world- would 80% of the people watching this video even realise that?! i study german and i didn't notice... degree fail.
LOL @ all the Arts students getting angry at this. I think its great that they dont understand that this is a joke... and they wonder why they are going to flip burgers... I dont.
next andypac is going to say "Fake and Gay" - go away, troll. Or perhaps he is one of the riot policemen who got (rightfully) beaned off the head with one of those fire extinquishers he refers to . I would have like to filmed that in slow motion - for the comedy value.
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Which prevailing situation is this? The one where a bunch of fire extinguisher throwing tossers attack police for trying to stop them rioting? Or is it the one where there isn't enough money to pay for dickheads like you to go to university for free? Because whichever it is, tossers like you are always going to be whingeing about something or other you're not getting for nothing. You're probably one of these idiots who stands eating a pie while shouting at joggers to run faster.
@andypac7 sorry dude, I should have said, I do have quite a good job, and always did. This song is commenting on prevalent situation more than autiobiography. So yeah, oh, and also, fuck off.
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NO wonder you're on the fucking dole. Flip burgers, you cunt, it's all you're worth. The only reason you're sing has been heard this far is because I'm typing. Dickhead.
@andypac7 he's clearly taking the piss out of the worth of an art degree ... who said he has one? That's a bit of an assumption on your part isn't it? Incidently its kinda ironic because arts students invariably lack any real talent at art, and this guy made a song... so I guess he can't actually be an art graduate :)
great song! did you secretly read my diary??? i study english (specialicing in the renaissance) and i know, i won't get a job. i'll graduate next year... and i refuse to become an arts post-graduate! ;)
great song! did you secretly read my diary??? i study english (specialicing in the renaissance) and i know, i won't get a job. i'll graduate next year... and i refuse to become an arts post-graduate! ;)
@IrelandsPatriot yeah words such as shallow and materialistic really describe people that study medicine, and then work almost every day of the year for the rest of most of their lives to help people, extremely well!! Cop on, it's a joke
I did medicine and it was very, very hard-still is- but it pays. Obviously not everyone can do something like that but there must be a way to make a just society with everyone making a contribution, but sending millions of people to study stuff that doesn't produce can't be it. Someone should have thought of this.
@ValisFan4 2:1 is an example of a degree classification in the UK. You can get a 1st, 2:1, 2:2, and a 3rd. A lot of people get 2:1s, at least a lot of people I know did.
If money and jobs are all you can think about then you should be doing commerce. What should I be studying to become a teacher, an archaeologist, a writer, a politician, or something that I could smile about on my death bed?
Don't give up. I got a philosophy degree and I used it to become one of the best entrepreneurial chemists in my neighborhood! I can make things that can open your minds far more than 4 years of university.
As an Arts undergraduate, I justify my taking of this course with the assertion that, while it is worthless as a stand-alone degree, it is valid as a pathway into respectable and employable fields of postgraduate study.
I may be deluding myself, but it does make me feel better.
Finished a biomedical science degree, now finishing an arts degree with a double major in psych... then plans for medical school. Gotta get back on the right track haha ;)
HAAAAAAHAHAHAHAH! this song is SOOO true... I am currently studying Arts/Law and the difference between faculties and people doing each degree is huge...! Hey, Arts students might not get a job, but they know how to party ! :D
dear lawrencegemmell, i too am an arts graduate. i have so far quit one job (teaching art to 4-18yr olds) got fired from one (teaching 0-6yr olds) ( i apparently didnt have the 'spirit' they required.) and am now on my 10th month of unemployment.
i must confess i considered said jobs but considered them pointless. i am now studying massage. apparently the jokes on me.even less chance of me getting a job now. i think they should hand out a mandatory handbook when one starts a course.
Does anyone go into arts actually expecting career prospects? I know I didn't, though heading into my fifth year of my Arts undergrad, I'm starting to question whether it was such a good idea to choose my degree simply because it seemed interesting and I wanted to delay the prospect of beginning a 'career' for as long as I could.
heskeythepowerhouse 5 days ago
This is so depressing for someone in their last year of an arts degree who has worked very hard!! :(
ChloeMR1991 1 week ago
Graduate unemployment's a pain in the arse, sending me mad - hence my channel!
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elleartla 3 weeks ago
I have a history degree which didnt really lead to a job, but got a job in a bar and did that for a year working all the shifts I could... work is its own benefit, now im on a 15k full time job, which for my age is a damn good starting salary at this time... working at mcdonalds might not be the most rewarding thing but itll look a lot better in a job interview than doing nothing
Demonarrows 4 weeks ago
I'm not studying philosophy at uni so I can get a job, i'm doing it because I enjoy it....
ghandi8749 1 month ago
@ghandi8749 Why not just learn it in your spare time and do something useful at university? I study philosophy using books, I don't need a qualification to prove to other people I know philosophy.
420chilldude 1 month ago
@420chilldude Because there is a dramatic difference between studying it by your self in your spare time, and as a degree. Also, what makes philosophy not useful? I think it's useful, helps you think rationally among many other things. And i'm not trying to prove to other people that I know philosophy, i'm taking it because I enjoy it.......
ghandi8749 4 weeks ago
@ghandi8749 By useful I mean useful in job prospects, earning money etc., that's one of the main purposes of going to university - learning skills for work. Philosophy is just as useful as exercising in terms of job skill.
And no there is no dramatic difference, the same thing they teach you in class you can learn from books.
420chilldude 3 weeks ago
This is the official theme song of the OWS movement.
FartyFace 1 month ago
This song should be played to all school leavers. Many of my friends with art degrees are struggling to find work. I studied medicine at university, and I am enjoying my career even though it is extremely hard work at times and I am faced with life and death decisions on a daily basis.
drpiddleton 1 month ago
Actually you won't get a job flipping burgers or working a blue-collar job either because those jobs aren't there. An arts degree used to get you a job in an office. Now it doesn't.
TheCareertalk 1 month ago
Luckily for me, though I may by chance be unemployed, my degree helps me learn practical things. Of course, I'm an engineering student. :3
imafirinmalaser 1 month ago
Close friend did Chemistry- and now she's selling mobile phones & doing really well! She's making more £££ than anyone else I know....
blondiecurlywurly 3 months ago
Brilliant and very representative of my unfortunately similar position.
Pixiesforever7 3 months ago
The image at 2.42 is a guiro, a musical instrument :)
PickleFishMusic 3 months ago 2
Wonderful :D Damn...
Miriam89 4 months ago
I did first and national diploma art before going onto bsc (HONs) fashion management. I love, although getting a job after will probably be hard all though I have one it's not the job I want to do for the rest of my life.
onehitsniper 4 months ago
Love it, your video has made my day :) I'm a first year studying Stage Management. :D x
ellsstuff 4 months ago
Thats brilliant hahah x
blondiecurlywurly 4 months ago
All I'm saying is this:
It depends on what the degree is in. If it's a degree that's worth -£9,000 then yeah, but Medicine or Law, there's good money in that, and a long-lasting career if you don't mess up. Don't go to University if you haven't looked up the requirements for the job you want/need, half the jobs out there don't need degrees.. Research FIRST, not after (:
emolify 4 months ago 2
This song deserves a Grammy, possibly the only thing on Earth more useless than an Arts degree!
TotallyGWB 4 months ago
THIS SONG IS ME RIGHT NOW.
i got a 2.1 in an arts degree, i love my artwork and my style. and i worked my arse off!! now am only wiping arses for a living in a crappy care home 13 hours a day on min wage....but am thankful i have a job...but most days id rather be unemployed.
magikjelibean 5 months ago
@magikjelibean There are around 200 jobs an art grad could get. Just look around for something.
narutardtedr 4 months ago
To be a successful artist you need charisma and must know how to sell yourself. You cannot approach the job like a plumber or mechanic would. You must have a larger-than-life personality that will draw attention to yourself. Take Dali, Picasso, Warhol. They deliberately acted weird so as to draw attention to themselves.
LordBifford 5 months ago
I am a post... graduate~ T_T
henry1989 5 months ago
Arts graduate? No different even with a proper degree like chemistry
BrokenBoySoulja 7 months ago
@IrelandsPatriot Ok bro, i'll remember that next time you have cancer.
98smithg 7 months ago
An alternative is getting a 2.1 BSc (Hons.. although honestly, why do people bother with that Hons part?) Economics and Statistics at a top 10 university (internationally).... and then become a spreadsheet monkey.
sunburntpenguin 7 months ago
I listened to this song 24/7 when I had the exam period for the final year of University (B.A.)
Tatacchan 8 months ago
I did an Arts degree first, Masters second. Now I have a full time job as a professional. Can't recommend it enough.
boogiefever1985 8 months ago 2
Genius. Absolutely genius.
TheMzLizzie 8 months ago
you rub the wooden frog with the stick thing and it makes a noise like a real frog. its better than it sounds...
LADSPLASH 8 months ago 2
Love this song. Spot on. Never trust an office worker (be they a doctor or an accountant) who hasn't at some point in their career flipped a burger or lifted a plank of wood.
eojox118 8 months ago
love this there needs to be another one XD
noigirl 9 months ago
Does an BA in communication and media management count?...please say no.
printer77 9 months ago
@printer77 no
boogiefever1985 8 months ago
@printer77 no, that's even more pointless.
eatingupthescum 1 month ago
Ha, I love this so much. Good job I did languages- something I'd say was more valuable than certain science degrees!
sophiemew 9 months ago
bahahhahahahaaaa story of my life.
B.A. (because of the low contact hours) -> graduation -> worked in sales -> quit because I felt it was below me -> unemployment -> Masters
bellsxx7 9 months ago
@bellsxx7 hahah awesome. I skipped the work in sales and unemployment, and went straight into Masters after my BA thanks to hearing stories like yours. Thanks for the heads up.
boogiefever1985 8 months ago
I am writing my last ever English Literature essay right now, and strangely this song is cheering me up...
jessicacaca18 9 months ago
Haha, so true! But hey, you studied something you actually like and you didn't sell your soul, so you'll somehow get a job you enjoy. Or maybe you already have an awesome job, who knows. :) Or I'm just still extremely naive. And drawing snails is fuuuuun! ^-^
LibertyJune 9 months ago
Too close to home. Love it though!
frannycky 9 months ago
It's moments like this when I'm SO glad I'm doing vet med.... although most of the time it's just hard work while my arts friends are drinking....
vforvenditation 9 months ago
@vforvenditation Later, you'll be drinking to relax and celebrate special occasions while they'll be drinking to wash away their depression.
seinfan9 6 months ago
hey! if we like we can be doctors... of philosophy: we don't know how to stop death, but we sure know how to contemplate it.
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EFBoler 9 months ago
So true! x
XxCrazygal2007xX 9 months ago
Whilst you're enjoying your job, you could think about starting a BAND!!
TheWanderingInkstar 9 months ago
Who doesn't like drawing snails! :) Arts students know how to have fuuuuun! :D
Nirzenra 9 months ago
absolutely brilliant and unfortunately quite true, good job lawrencegemmell
roaringvanguard 9 months ago 2
GENIUS! You should get a job as a satirist.
Mujangga 9 months ago
sigh......my life.
lunapavo 10 months ago
This isn't a joke this is actually my life...
lonesomeflower 10 months ago
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What's up with ripping off the University of Melbourne's logo? Surely you could have found something more generic (for example, one without a major national symbol featured prominently).
Otherwise, spot on.
-Me (BA Philosophy 2006, BA(Hons) Politics 2007, MPhil European Politics 2011)
danbfconnor 10 months ago
@danbfconnor apologies, it's not meant as any slight on Melbourne, have no idea about it as a uni, it just suited my photoshopping requirements. and was one of the first things that came up when I searched 'uni logos'. Sorry
lawrencegemmell 10 months ago 16
@lawrencegemmell
Don't apologizes. Arts at UMelb is as useless as it is anywhere else :P. jk
nikanj 10 months ago
problem is, when sending everyone to university was first tossed around as an idea, the purpose was to get people doing technical degrees to create a highly skilled workforce... instead we have a lot of people who know about poetry, plato and the history of the french revolution but not about anything that, you know, leads to jobs... except for academia... plenty of "academics" around now, so at least they can publish books for students to buy... so those students can become academics...
TheJinkedful 10 months ago 4
@TheJinkedful I think you need to become a lot more open-minded. The arts (i.e. fillm,poetry, fiction, drama, philosophy, history, painting, sculpting, etc.) are the most important aspects of human life. They allow people each to give their own take on the world, to express themselves. They create beauty: why do so many people go to see Mona Lisa? They provide a means by which humanity as a whole can ask fundamental questions about life. They are what REALLY MATTERS.
JimmyJoseph91 10 months ago
@JimmyJoseph91 I think you need to cool it with the assumptions. I have a very active appreciation of poetry, philosophy, history and high art. I nearly did English. Then i realised that rather than adding to the arts, ruthless criticism and analysis harms them. The aim is not to apprecaite or understand, it is to manipulate to pass some exams. Learning about literature passed a-level degrades it. You ought to have developed the necessary skills to study independently, without needing grading.
TheJinkedful 10 months ago
@TheJinkedful What assumptions? What ruthless criticism? What are you saying? The very reason for analysing and critiqueing art is to gain a better undersatnding of it. Please, look up the verbs 'to criticise' and 'to critique'- - when studying Arts, the latter verb is the one most appropriate. The goal of third-level education was originally to help people to become more rounded individualls, able to properly express themselves and most importantly, to endow them with the critical spirit.
JimmyJoseph91 10 months ago
@JimmyJoseph91 You assumed i wasn't open minded when the reverse is true. And once you have learned to analyse and criticise at a-level, what is the purpose in continuing the studies, bar leisure? You are being graded on skills you already learned, while not gaining any information you couldn't teach yourself. And when you leave you have become a pretentious little prick who can't find a job because, shockingly, being able to analyse poems isn't useful in factories, banks, or office blocks.
TheJinkedful 10 months ago
@TheJinkedful I think when university was conceived we were more worried about the black plague than technical workskills. And arts subjects are an irrelevant hobby? Shockingly, pythagoras' theorum, Plancks constant, and general relativity aren't that useful in boardrooms, banks or office blocks either. Abstract learning is just a way of proving you're smart, hardworking and can think on your toes. If you think number crunching is more useful than lateral thinking, you're the snob.
thejackroller 10 months ago
@thejackroller The idea of sending everyone to university comes from the 1990's reforms of the Major government, with the intention of creating a technically skilled workforce. It was about academics in older times, and still is to an extent if you go to a top 10 institution. But 90% of students don't. I didnt say "irrelevant" hobby, but yes they are hobbies. Compete with a number crunching lateral thinker, which is what a decent economics course ought to give you... ie applicable knowledge.
TheJinkedful 10 months ago
2 weeks from finishing my BA in Film Studies,
Applying for another degree in Paramedic Science to become a use to society now I've fulfilled my gratuitous desire for humanities based knowledge
This song summarises perfectly how I feel about my Film Studies degree, simultaneous laughter and deep-seated depression
hoylie 11 months ago
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hoylie 11 months ago
As I told my boy when he said he wanted to study history "When was the last time you saw someone reach for the Yellow Pages and say "Quick! I need an historian, I need one now and I don't care what it costs!"?
MekonInBrisbane 11 months ago 5
@IrelandsPatriot whatever man! Science is the anything but fucking shallow and material! Its about giving everything possible to solve problems and better the world! There is nothing challenging about reading a book and saying its good and bad points.
melekhthechanger88 11 months ago 2
yay i am doing a degree in chemistry ...... need to study now so i can get my 2.1 =p
melekhthechanger88 11 months ago
spot on:D
(Now back to working on my final year degree show)
mikeige 11 months ago
Why didn't I hear this song BEFORE I started a BA in Media Studies?! Now I'm third year and an expert on Facebook and cyborgs.
Symposeum 11 months ago 4
this is probably the worst thing i've ever seen created by an arts graduate. obviously graduated from buckinghamshire.
Facadian 11 months ago
I am literally laughing and crying at the same time. Thanks for describing my entire life in one three-minute song.
-->Classics graduate, sponging off of parents, applying for grad school, right here.
matzahpudding 1 year ago 7
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I see your point of view, but you take into account the feelings x,000s of art graduates that are currently seeking employment. Maby you should drive your self to make more motivational tunes for the world rather than spreading your depressing sh**t
bladecashbladecash 1 year ago
I see your point of view, but you take into account the feelings x,000s of art graduates that are currently seeking employment. Maby you should drive your self to make more motivational tunes for the world rather than spreading your depressing shit!
bladecashbladecash 1 year ago
It's funny because it's true! I want to change my major now.
msteezie1 1 year ago 3
haha as i sit here applying for my masters I begin to cry...
martang66 1 year ago 5
ha, i do a BA and find this hilarious. (but mostly because my degree consists of 3 foreign languages so i'll never be unemployed. so take that science!)
and i don't think spelling Nietzsche wrong is the worst thing in the world- would 80% of the people watching this video even realise that?! i study german and i didn't notice... degree fail.
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afycrhms 1 year ago
lol'd hard @ this. But art graduates are not the only graduates in perpetual unemployment.
KKZReset11 1 year ago
When will this come out on Itunes. Then I can Listen to it everywhere :) Ps. Chemistry very hard like being stuck between a rock and an explosion ;)
alex06will11 1 year ago
This is 100% accurate. And I am an Arts student.
spassisfun 1 year ago
this is genius! depressing if you are an arts grad tho... luckily i do chem ;)
TheJinkedful 1 year ago
Great song! Love the little pic of Nietzsche (so hard to spell, it is true...)
sparkleygoat 1 year ago
LOL @ all the Arts students getting angry at this. I think its great that they dont understand that this is a joke... and they wonder why they are going to flip burgers... I dont.
Adpowder 1 year ago
@Adpowder not ALL Art students got angry at this o__O I'm an art student and I think it's pure genius :D
Tatacchan 8 months ago 8
@Tatacchan I'm an arts student too and this song is genius!!
baza73 4 months ago
next andypac is going to say "Fake and Gay" - go away, troll. Or perhaps he is one of the riot policemen who got (rightfully) beaned off the head with one of those fire extinquishers he refers to . I would have like to filmed that in slow motion - for the comedy value.
boggywoman 1 year ago
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Which prevailing situation is this? The one where a bunch of fire extinguisher throwing tossers attack police for trying to stop them rioting? Or is it the one where there isn't enough money to pay for dickheads like you to go to university for free? Because whichever it is, tossers like you are always going to be whingeing about something or other you're not getting for nothing. You're probably one of these idiots who stands eating a pie while shouting at joggers to run faster.
andypac7 1 year ago
@andypac7 go back to your right wing cave dude, this is a joke, obviously about 50,000 people got it and you didn't, bad luck.
lawrencegemmell 1 year ago 66
@lawrencegemmell I am one of the 50000 people that got it. Your song is awesome. Looks like someone needs a sense of humour
seadarjam 1 year ago 2
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Don't flatter yourself, tosspot, the typo occurred because I was typing so fast to get that shitty excuse of a SONG off the player. Twat.
andypac7 1 year ago
@andypac7 sorry dude, I should have said, I do have quite a good job, and always did. This song is commenting on prevalent situation more than autiobiography. So yeah, oh, and also, fuck off.
lawrencegemmell 1 year ago 82
@andypac7 you and your family jumps off a cliff - who wins? society.
skillzdatkillz900 4 months ago
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NO wonder you're on the fucking dole. Flip burgers, you cunt, it's all you're worth. The only reason you're sing has been heard this far is because I'm typing. Dickhead.
andypac7 1 year ago
@andypac7
"The only reason you're sing has been heard this far is because I'm typing. Dickhead."
Learn to check for mistakes before you launch into an attack.
Dickhead.
UterusGoo 1 year ago
@UterusGoo aww, cheers dude.
lawrencegemmell 1 year ago
@andypac7 he's clearly taking the piss out of the worth of an art degree ... who said he has one? That's a bit of an assumption on your part isn't it? Incidently its kinda ironic because arts students invariably lack any real talent at art, and this guy made a song... so I guess he can't actually be an art graduate :)
dimert 1 year ago
NO wonder you're on the fucking dole. Flip burgers, you cunt, it's all you're worth.
andypac7 1 year ago
@andypac7 your an absolute freak.
MultiYumz 1 year ago
@MultiYumz
at least as arts graduates we know it's you're and not your :p
29elh 1 year ago 4
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY FOR THE WIN!!
Sarrathor 1 year ago
yes
jacobcmills 1 year ago
lord, this sounds like me in a year and a half...
was laughing hysterically by the end of it though, so sadly yet ridiculously true O.o
Kyriiah 1 year ago
Like this if everything in this clip applies to you!!! arts graduates unite!
xabikeene 1 year ago 5
lads this is me like!!!!!!
xoxoLAINEYxoxo 1 year ago
@IrelandsPatriot your love of the arts has failed to teach you anything about irony. I've heard it's quite an important feature of a lot of art.
lawrencegemmell 1 year ago 9
You're a middle class prick.
gmttdan 1 year ago
@gmttdan it kind of says that in the song, yeah.
lawrencegemmell 1 year ago 9
@lawrencegemmell man this is an awesome little tune.... awesome job :)
ryandsz 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
haha just applied for my arts postgrad course
artaylor5615 1 year ago
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artaylor5615 1 year ago
I hope this won't happen to me. Probably will.
xbladeofgrassx 1 year ago
unemployedLAD.
EyeHeartElliottSmith 1 year ago
this is my future in 2 years :)
cookiedebono 1 year ago 2
You, my friend...are a LEGEND!
Tatacchan 1 year ago 2
Well...at least im not the only one!
ElFloof 1 year ago 2
hey ya!
great song! did you secretly read my diary??? i study english (specialicing in the renaissance) and i know, i won't get a job. i'll graduate next year... and i refuse to become an arts post-graduate! ;)
TheStardy 1 year ago
hey ya!
great song! did you secretly read my diary??? i study english (specialicing in the renaissance) and i know, i won't get a job. i'll graduate next year... and i refuse to become an arts post-graduate! ;)
TheStardy 1 year ago
Awwwh, but i love studying English...........
Just cuz I wont earn a trillion a day doesnt mean its not worth while :(
Elitistism in this comment section yikes
moroney1 1 year ago
@IrelandsPatriot yeah words such as shallow and materialistic really describe people that study medicine, and then work almost every day of the year for the rest of most of their lives to help people, extremely well!! Cop on, it's a joke
adrice90 1 year ago 2
marvellous video, thanks.
I did medicine and it was very, very hard-still is- but it pays. Obviously not everyone can do something like that but there must be a way to make a just society with everyone making a contribution, but sending millions of people to study stuff that doesn't produce can't be it. Someone should have thought of this.
All the best
crazymanstephen 1 year ago
I don't get what "everyone has a 2:1" means.
ValisFan4 1 year ago
@ValisFan4 2:1 is an example of a degree classification in the UK. You can get a 1st, 2:1, 2:2, and a 3rd. A lot of people get 2:1s, at least a lot of people I know did.
lawrencegemmell 1 year ago
@lawrencegemmell Oh OK that makes sense thanks.
ValisFan4 1 year ago
this is absolutely excellent. Well done.
nicegilbz1 1 year ago
lol you made my day
Carb0ndereyes 1 year ago
haha the frog is a guiro! ;) I'm a music student, will probs end up in the same boat! The only proper jobs for arts graduates, are teachers! Do it!
eveecooper 1 year ago
I am about to graduate from the same university of generic oh noes!
like the font used in the vid btw :)
infernalman7 1 year ago
This is amazingly true!
girlinthemoon 1 year ago
I tried teaching. It was rubbish so I dropped out of that.
I applied for a job decorating cupcakes for £5 an hour with free cake. Sounded appropriate.
bethspilsbury 1 year ago
I got a BS in Information Systems. Im looking for entry level work in the IT field paying $10 or more. No luck yet. (Month 6)
aaronbassplyr 1 year ago
Most depressing laughter I've ever produced.
nathan113 1 year ago 12
engineering is were its at
hod05 1 year ago
I have one of those things that you "don't know what this is". Its a guiro.
hazemyster 1 year ago
guys with their heads in their hands almost always sell phones. good insight! :)
77rabbit77 1 year ago
3 years down the track, it's gonna be "I'm an arttts doctorate". Then 5 years later, " I'm an arttts post-doctorate".
LanTronXoe 1 year ago 2
If money and jobs are all you can think about then you should be doing commerce. What should I be studying to become a teacher, an archaeologist, a writer, a politician, or something that I could smile about on my death bed?
nucliaf3tha2 1 year ago
Don't give up. I got a philosophy degree and I used it to become one of the best entrepreneurial chemists in my neighborhood! I can make things that can open your minds far more than 4 years of university.
Style386 1 year ago 2
@Style386 legend :p
lemoneylemon 1 year ago
Dear Jesus... I'm doomed...
GaladedridDamodred 1 year ago
LOL arts graduates arent just screwed for the recession.. theyre screwed for life unless they do something else lol
herbertg21 1 year ago
As an Arts undergraduate, I justify my taking of this course with the assertion that, while it is worthless as a stand-alone degree, it is valid as a pathway into respectable and employable fields of postgraduate study.
I may be deluding myself, but it does make me feel better.
Balthic 1 year ago
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Balthic 1 year ago
This arts grad unemployment trope is so tedious.
stuckdan 1 year ago
Drama at Bristol, 2:1, just got a job in a hospital cafe. I like Drama though, no regrets!
silentmuician 1 year ago
JAJAJAJAAAAA WILL SMITH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
binnypark7 1 year ago 3
@binnypark7 congratulations, this is actually the best response I've had to this. Seriously, I love it.
lawrencegemmell 1 year ago
@lawrencegemmell Didn't anyone else notice?!
binnypark7 1 year ago
I did Arts.. then teaching... now i'm not sure if i want to be a teacher
wiggarachi 1 year ago
Finished a biomedical science degree, now finishing an arts degree with a double major in psych... then plans for medical school. Gotta get back on the right track haha ;)
BohemianAsh 1 year ago
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MademoiselleLibre 1 year ago
Love it.
Gold.
MademoiselleLibre 1 year ago
Halfway through a classical music degree at WAAPA... working at a Deli and probably always will be. WHYDIDIPICKMUSIC?!
katums141 1 year ago
oh great....at least i am not the only one....finished an honours degree in history and now ended up making coffee
spewitall 1 year ago
HAAAAAAHAHAHAHAH! this song is SOOO true... I am currently studying Arts/Law and the difference between faculties and people doing each degree is huge...! Hey, Arts students might not get a job, but they know how to party ! :D
luwiton 1 year ago
Sorry guys, I do engineering.
thefreakface 1 year ago
lolllllll
roxyurworld 1 year ago
Wow, that guy's cute. I'd buy him if I did Law or Commerce.
abelcjg 1 year ago
dear lawrencegemmell, i too am an arts graduate. i have so far quit one job (teaching art to 4-18yr olds) got fired from one (teaching 0-6yr olds) ( i apparently didnt have the 'spirit' they required.) and am now on my 10th month of unemployment.
i must confess i considered said jobs but considered them pointless. i am now studying massage. apparently the jokes on me.even less chance of me getting a job now. i think they should hand out a mandatory handbook when one starts a course.
schnittzy 1 year ago
ahaaaaaaa well said that man
Lwrncisascientist 1 year ago
Screw arts, science is where the action is.
Any idiot can learn philosophy, political science or history at home.
spacecowboy95 1 year ago
@spacecowboy95 any idiot can troll on a video! GOOD JOB BUDDY
Lwrncisascientist 1 year ago
@Lwrncisascientist Hey thanks man!
spacecowboy95 1 year ago
LOL.. this is good! hahhahahahha.. But it kind of scared me though. Am I going to end up like you after uni. Because I am also very lazy :)
HugeOracle 1 year ago
BA graphic design = mickey mouse degree lol
hod05 1 year ago
what this guy should do is get this video really big and then make a t-shirt to buy at the end. good internet fads sell well
mousemutant 1 year ago
I have got an idea , keep on making songs share them on facebook and youtube and get money from ads .
Goron1988 1 year ago
I do an engineering degree. Sweet.
rawcsy 1 year ago