, qualifications they gained in their home countries don't hold the same weight in the UK, which means it can be difficult to get employment outside of retail or administrative roles. This leaves them unfulfilled and typically means they stay in service jobs for far longer than they'd like to.
We started exploring more paths, and whenever I'd ask,"Do you want to do this?", we would find out,"Oh wait, you have to have a degree," or,"You have to have this qualification," or,"You have to have 20 years of experience." We were just like,"What about if we could go to university and do an Open University degree?" or something, and then we realised,"Oh wait, to get into that, you have to go to college for two years.