31st January 2011, 03:59 PM
Using Troll?s suggested salary advantage of c 90 pence per hour and given the estimated minimum cost of a degree (5000 loan + 9000 tuition fee per annum x 3 years) you would have to work continuously in archaeolgy for 26.5 years to see a return on the cost of your education. If you added in the interest payments on your student loan at roughly 6.5 percent, I estimate you would need to work in excess of a feasible working lifetime to see a return on the basic cost of your ?degree?education. So clearly the answer is ?no?....however you try telling that to the youth of today, they just won?t believe yer....
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