Weird conversation on the bus yesterday. There were two black lads of a school leaving age talking about school and education generally. One said he was going to go to university and the other couldn't believe it.
"C'mon man! I can't believe you wanna do that! I've done years at primary school and years a secondary school. I've had enough - doing anymore would be wasting my time."
OK, so there's some part of that I can understand but his argument floundered slightly by what came next...
"I actually want to get into business and accounting."
So let's get this straight. You are a school leaver and you want to do accounting which, and I am no expert on such things, requires years of study to qualify or else you have no hope of making a career out of it. As we know 'business' is a little different because entreprenneurs have earned millions without a qualification to their name but even so...
It got weirder still when he talked about a business idea he'd had.
"I also fancy being a promoter. I have this idea about having a table dancing club for teenagers. It would be safe environment for them so they don't have to look at stuff in a magazine."
OK, so I may have paraphrased the last sentence but that's essentially what he said. He wanted to either be an unqualified accountant or table dancer promoter for kids. That's even worse than the YTS kid who had a spell at a previous company I worked for whose aspirations were to be either a graphic designer or an airline pilot.
Awesome.