= Video diaries
Tom's to do list
- Elevate notgoingtouni to the stage where it will be the first thing people think of when unsure on what to do after school/college
- Create a community of people not going to uni much like student communities.
- Be able to say that notgoingtouni has helped students nationwide in their choices after school/college.
- Create a thriving business out of notgoingtouni.
- Influence change on government targets and society’s views on non-graduates.
- Promote young enterprise.
Where Tom's at
Last updated: 30/06/2008
Hello people, firstly thanks for visiting. My name is Tom Mursell, I’m 18 and from sunny Southampton. I’d say I’m your average 18 year old. I enjoy going out with mates, spending time with my girlfriend, into my football, always crack on the Family Guy and Gervais quotes (much to my girlfriend’s annoyance!). I suppose the only thing which makes me different from the next guy on the street is that I own my own business.
Like almost every 18 year old up and down the country, I was hit with the big decision – to go to university or not. It seems that at that age you have to decide on what you want to do for the next 50 years and you’re put under unnecessary pressure to make that decision. I felt a bit stranded because I wasn’t going to university, and was a bit down after being miss-sold job opportunities for one reason or another. I started looking into the alternatives to university and to my amazement there were loads of wicked opportunities, but no single place to find them.
Like any true opportunist I saw the gap in the market and I leapt. The result of much planning, networking and hard work is www.notgoingtouni.co.uk. It was launched primarily as a careers information and job portal for school/college leavers unsure about university and has allowed me to meet some awesome people and work with household names. Just as the job market is constantly changing, so are my plans for the future, and hopefully you will be with me over the next year of my life watching things unfold.
