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Treat him a trip to NZ? It's close. They speak a sub-dialect of proper Australian English. No snakes. The spiders are pretty lame compared to Australia. And save for the occasional tourist who gets crushed by falling ice because they went past the barriers at Franz Josef Glacier...

EDIT - Apologies Sim, you did mention Engineering! Sim, you missed the two biggies... Engineering & Geology Physics PhDs are not at all uncommonly found as quantitative analysts in finance. Largely I suspect this would be because the math in high level finance would be too...

A little note of caution here (I've seen this happen).... The problem with deciding to try a year at uni is that if you don't pull finger and do the work, perhaps because you're lazy or just plain disinterested, then the environment (as reflected in your grades) can be very cruel. Yes it...

OP I should have added... I'm 37 and I'm still trying to work out what I want to do in life... I did fill in all 6 options when I did my UAC form back in 1993 (I can still remember what they were btw) even though I knew I was only ever going to do #1 on the list since the TER cut-off was...

What subjects is he doing now at High School? (beyond the math / english core stuff) Would he consider a Gap Year? Fast forward 10 years does he have any idea of what he wants to do? (Not that it is a lifelong decision because changing careers / retraining is very common these days)...