Any Advice ?

Get as much work experience related to your degree as you can.
Graduate recruitment are very self centred towards graduates having experience.
You may be able to lower your on campus study load and still work.
I made the mistake of doing my commerce degree ASAP and then found my marks were not high enough, my age was too much, my weight was to much and my experience was not enough. Still looking for work of any kind. Wish I had done an apprenticeship instead of University.

I agree it would be good to start working asap – to get both money and experience. Keep studying full time off campus while working.

Europe just laid off 67,000 bank staff…. the US about 10,000 so far. And there’s a lot more to come. Financial services and banking will be oversupplied with skilled experienced personnel for years to come. Property has been over-cooked for 2 decades and isn’t likely to offer much in the forseable future. Property will be(is) high risk and low returns (if any) over the coming years. You’ll probably have better odds and lower risk at the casino.

Think economic collapse (global) and try to figure out where the opportunities lie in the future once the dust settles and the rebuild begins. Many ppl will make fortunes in the coming economic meltdown. It won’t be in merchant banking (you won’t get a job there because half the banks and financial companies will fail) or property in the short term. 3-5 years out you might make a killing on property if you’re cashed up

Jack

I work in the banking industry and I am never asked to produce evidence that I attended uni.  Actually that is a lie… I was asked once and I laughed and said I had no clue where that piece of paper was now, with all its irrelevance so many years down the track.  While I did indeed go to uni, I did not study subjects directly related to my current profession and frankly nobody cares.  Once you've been out of uni for 2 years or more, nobody cares about seeing the bit of paper any more.  It's the experience that counts. 

While going to uni to make forward movement in life is better than doing nothing, it is not always the case it is the best idea for every person.  Plenty of tradies out there that did apprenticeships and became minted before they turned 30 by investing in real estate, and opening their own businesses and hiring others to do the hard yakka.

Yep, I can relate. I spent 4 years at Uni almost a decade ago – not once during my PAYG days was I asked to show any evidence of having Uni qualifications. Now that I'm self employed – the Uni qauls don't play a part at all. I'm sure the 4 years have shaped me in one way or another but experience, motivation and a bit of ambition outweigh a piece of paper IMO.

Cheers

Jamie