[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Lads walk into jobs/apprenticeships after school which girls find it hard to do. From my experience and people I know anyway. Males are much more likely to go into plumbing, bricklaying and the likes which do not require education as such but manual labour and learning on the job.

I fail to see the link between suicides and university attendance no matter how much I try

My son is 11 years old and already he's convinced he want to join the Police, I'm constantly saying to him, well you have to put the work in incase you change your mind and want to go to University but he's adamant that's what he wants to do. My daughter on the otherhand is 100% sure she wants to go to University, she's really into her studies, I actually have to tell her to take breaks she's that into it, she's not sure what she even wants to do career wise yet but she's sure she's going to University anyway. They've both been raised in the same house by the same parents and been encouraged in the same way

Saying that, my son is still only 11 so he might change his mind on the Police thing, I think it's because he's obsessed with guns lol eventhough the Irish Police don't even carry guns