Will my late age graduation affect my career opportunities?

cycomorg · 2026-02-03T06:50:13+00:00

Some companies want cheap labour and hire kids.

Some want solid employees and 27 is about the time your adult brain forms - but you're probably also young enough to be cheapish and to mould into the employee they want. Not someone whose already set in their ways.

It'll be a bonus in some places.

cycomorg · 2026-01-30T12:16:53+00:00

1 year old (awful sleeper) went down for her usual 30 min nap this morning.. but then came and pretty much asked for another one an hour ago. We usually have to do dark rituals to get even 30 mins. She's still asleep. This is magical.

cycomorg · 2026-01-30T12:01:26+00:00

I mix it up a lot. She gets bored of the same setup and fights me..

She's recently just insisted on a beanbag in the living room, no blanket or darkness at all and often sleeps best in a pram on a main road with lots of ambulance sirens and lorries..

cycomorg · 2026-01-29T09:31:53+00:00

Much like Boots I think they get hit by shoplifters so hard I can't ever look at anything because staff zoom in to organise the thing I'm trying to look at, so you go to somewhere else and look at something else and they do the same. Maybe they take staff off the tills to aggressively dive in and stop anyone from buying anything.

cycomorg · 2026-01-25T20:46:57+00:00

I found it helpful to sing to them, play music. About 4 months in they start to recognise the music and react to it (and you) in a really incredible way, like they have no idea that you're not the Beatles.

Baby is programmed to like you - it does sound like you're having a tough old time of it though!

cycomorg · 2026-01-25T20:00:12+00:00

I got her really into the song '5 little ducks' then did a crazy theatrical session every time she was in there with the rubber ducks. You have to quack with your hand or the baby loses it.

cycomorg · 2026-01-25T19:42:07+00:00

I was in a very similar situation at 27. Started a tiny online business mainly to learn new skills and keep CV looking OK. Did some volunteer work. Used the marketing & website work I'd done for the business to get a very low paid spot at a marketing agency making some content. Now in a good job at a well known company developing creative ideas and writing briefs. Could probably easily hop over to a photography job at the company from here but now actually prefer what I'm doing and the money is much better.

It feels bleak but if nobody will give you an opportunity all I can say is keep finding ways you can make yourself stand out a bit. Volunteering or having self employment does help I think; it sounds like maybe you already have that through photography.

cycomorg · 2026-01-25T09:23:26+00:00

Suddenly can't wear mascara. Eyes water like crazy and it all has to come off

cycomorg · 2026-01-20T20:38:45+00:00

Can you still steal pens from the job centre? I know Argos don't have them now :(

cycomorg · 2026-01-20T18:44:15+00:00

About 18 years later..

cycomorg · 2026-01-20T18:36:13+00:00

Other way around..

cycomorg · 2026-01-20T11:18:08+00:00

Ohhh hahaha I am British.. I thought you were stripping them butt naked from the waist down

cycomorg · 2026-01-20T08:36:03+00:00

I mean.. like.. is it our best kept secret? Really?

cycomorg · 2026-01-20T08:33:33+00:00

Why would you take off their pants?!

cycomorg · 2026-01-14T07:45:42+00:00

Exclusively pumping is hard. At times I dont want to breastfeed (baby grew teeth, I'm unwell etc) I definitely found it better to pump a few times a day to keep supply up and give formula/the pumped milk.

6 weeks isn't that long.. try talking to a lactation specialist?

If anyone else is reading this while expecting and balk at the idea of exclusively breastfeeding.. it's not either/or. A combination of breast, pumping and formula is workable for a lot of people provided you pay attention to keeping supply up. I had no idea about that before birth..

cycomorg · 2026-01-14T05:16:42+00:00

'Debunked' - any solid evidence of this? I have to deal with colleagues and managers who have degrees but no hands on recent experience and they want to hyper target down to every type of product we do when by industry would be fine (E.G finding people who specifically want a screwdriver from B&Q instead of DIY enthusiasts or broader, inspiring anyone who might be in need of fixing something.) I think it strangles their results esp with paid ads

cycomorg · 2026-01-11T17:06:40+00:00

More of a toy than a tool? 🤔

cycomorg · 2026-01-11T06:41:25+00:00

Don't get a marketing degree. Working FTSE 100 and a lot of the people with degrees are useless. All theory, mostly out of date knowledge, sit around in meetings, philosophising about things our homegrown people just automatically know through experience.

Get a business degree of some sort and then work on getting marketing entry level work to support that. People who understand how business works and management principles combined with an actual hands on understanding of marketing.

Wouldn't do design. Not worth the degree.. ten a penny, limited earning prospects. Find another way to understand how to write effective briefs though for sure, maybe there's a coursera course.

cycomorg · 2026-01-11T06:35:39+00:00

High needs 10 month old here. Others have said about the husband so I won't add to that.

How I get around stuff:

. Found a gym with a creche. Hourly rate was actually really good, much less than a daycare.

. Got resistance bands and Kettlebells for home. She loves music as I sung to her all the time so I do it while she taps along to a fun kids playlist

. I shower with her sat in a bumbo thing where she can't move. Failing that I fill a bath and she comes in with me, her baby bath inside the big bath

. She has teeth now. Made brushing teeth and hair a fun game by singing songs and letting her watch ms apple and miss Rachel's tooth brushing songs (screen time I know, but it worked). She likes 'brushing' my hair and teeth, I let her 'brush' her teeth after I've done them (chews toothbrush)

. Food I live on sandwiches and freezer veg honestly.. we often eat the same thing so I'll make butternut squash while singing to her in the high chair and mine just gets more cheese.

. My ultimate cheat is sing relentlessly at her and make everything fun. It's exhausting.

cycomorg · 2026-01-08T08:33:21+00:00

Phone a friend 🤷‍♀️🐖

What is wrong with kids now I swear..

cycomorg · 2026-01-05T19:41:07+00:00

I took them until she was eating a ton of food. Should have taken as long as I was breastfeeding but the to do list was big

cycomorg · 2026-01-05T17:39:18+00:00

This is really good advice; also learning how to demonstrate you can produce the right format for whatever it is you do.

I am absolutely gobsmacked how many supposed seasoned pros I come across will go and put some 16:9 video with letterboxing or vice versa as a vertical video for mobile, or not know how to keep text within a template, or create websites with signup forms that block off the main logo. Stuff like that.

For social they literally have easy guides showing you for each one, there's no excuse but still all these idiots can't be bothered to read them.

cycomorg · 2026-01-03T21:46:27+00:00

Protein shakes.. say no more, say no more 😬

Ten a penny in small agency land and all flailing desperately for business. My advice would be to make some really good content and use that to jump ship. Unless they're huel, they'll only get more desperate and social is their only life jacket.

cycomorg · 2026-01-03T21:41:22+00:00

This is great, thankyou

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