I’ve always thought the issue should be ‘learning to learn’. As is pointed out many times in the comments, the transferable skills from the humanities are legion.
But..
The issue I see with more ‘vocational’ based education at this level is what happens when that job disappears?

East Sussex really is beautiful this time of year isn’t it

Most of the gigs the past few years. Laibach, NEUBAUTEN,

There’s a type

We’re a type

I was talking to my partner afterwards that I couldn’t find a friend of ours. Short(ish) bald bloke of increasing age dressed in black.

There were a lot of us

I’ve just seen a picture of you on your feed…

I remember now, sorry

Haha

I know Gary. Though Saturday was the first time I’d seen him for a couple of years

(Hu-hum, me names on the back)

Have you seen the new Test Dept compilation?

I think the last time I did a road trip for a band was 25 odd years ago. And even that was because I was driving and tour managing

It’s a really informative (and very worrying) thread isn’t it.

I think what it highlights more than anything is the utter lack of long term planning for any high level d vision made. Everything is about the next election, and not what the country actually needs

Ooh, at The Dome…
Literally just been laid off from there (health again)

Saw Mogwai last time they played there (obviously)

I even had a guest list if I wanted but have had to be firm with myself and no shows outside Brighton this year (health)

Did the CV bit but whitstable was just too far for me

..and apart from Mark it was most probably a totally a different band each time

We used to see her in Hyper Hyper in the eighties. We little bunch of small town goths and weirdos who’d jump the train, do Kensington Market to buy bootleg cassettes and then over the road pretending we had a chance of buying her and Dave Vanians then wife’s stuff

It all too often seems that the stress is built in. Have too many family members and friends that have got to maybe first application, gets turned down and just go ‘fuck it, I’m not going through that again’.
So the system ‘wins’

Our daughter has to prove her Down Syndrome hasn’t decided to bugger off every few years