Re: Edinburgh, Scotland: PHP Developer Position

Daniel Brown wrote: > On 6/18/07, Tijnema <tijnema@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 6/18/07, Daniel Brown <parasane@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On 6/18/07, Tijnema <tijnema@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > Yes, but if you pay $10K for you study, and you get $1K extra each >> > > year, you need to work 10 years to get your money back, and I didn't >> > > even count the costs of your valuable time... >> > > >> > >> > Ten thousand dollars for a college degree? Where the hell is >> that school?!? >> > >> > When I was in college, I paid more than that per year, and it >> > wasn't even /that/ good of a school! >> > >> > -- >> > Daniel P. Brown >> >> Well, here in the Netherlands, I'm not totally sure about the prices >> but in € it's about the price we pay... >> Government pays the rest.. :) >> IIRC, it was €2.5K for the college itself, and €1K for studying books >> each year, well, nearly all studies are four year here, so that means >> about €14K total. >> Close to €10k ;), but let me correct it, it's nearly $19K. >> So that means working 19 years :P, or get $2K extra each year :) >> >> Tijnema >> > > Here, you either have to be destitute, a minority, have done > something extremely beneficial to humanity, know someone in political > power, win a lottery, or serve at least one full tour in the armed > services to get free money from the government for school. They'll > gladly give you loans, though.... at 14-19% APR or higher. we have a more social system in holland - although the figures Tijnema is quoting are crap unless you assume that mummy and daddy pay for just about everything but the actual book and study fees. I know one guy that has 90,000 euro debt from medical school - admittedly he's taken 7-9 years (he had a stopyear I believe) but nonetheless you get the point (especially if you know that the guy also had various parttime jobs during that time) >