Not quite the right question
Do the extra degree!

Right now, jobs are a bit hard to come by, employers are very picky. In two to four years time, the economy should pick up again (if not, we are all truly fucked, so it doesn't matter anyway).

If you have just graduated, then you've missed the big graduate recruitment programmes for this academic year anyway.

So, instead of scratching on for the rest of the year, or sending your cv to various incompetent recruitment agencies who, at best, might offer you office jobs at the soul destroying end of the spectrum, do your MSc. Much more interesting.

It won't tie you into a future academic career like a PhD might, it will give you a little (probably trivial) extra edge over all the other milkrounders next year, and certainly over anyone trying to join graduate schemes after a year of making tea and photocopying.
(Rastus P Watermelon, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 17:46, Reply)