When John Baird invented the television in 1926, I wonder did he envisage it being used to screen people "getting mortal", "bucking birds" and urinating on themselves.

Geordie Shore is a show which many have grown to love. Now in its 11th season (and counting) longevity means it must be doing something right.

The main theme of the show is people simply do not give a (rhymes with duck). Their only concerns are pulling, getting ossified and scoffing a kebab at the end of the night.

But when you put all joking aside, read between the lines and think about it logically - what are we all doing with our lives?

Just before Christmas, I was snowed under with assignments and stressed to the max. I took an hour break from my study to watch Geordie Shore.

Having thoroughly enjoyed Kyle Christie's dramatic exit from the show, suddenly a little light bulb appeared above my head and it dawned on me - I have an undergraduate law degree, will soon have a masters in journalism and no matter how hard I work, I will only ever earn one tenth of what the cast members of Geordie Shore do.

This completely unfounded, yet probably accurate enough statistic, might just ring true for the vast majority of us.

Obviously there is more to life than money and so long as you are in a job you love, what does it matter, but it really does make you contemplate the society we now live in. All of us love going out and having a good time but unfortunately we do not get paid for it.

Over the Christmas period I walked into HMV and in the DVD section I came across workout DVD's from Charlotte Crosby, Holly Hagan and Vicky Pattison all on the same shelf.

These Newcastle girls who we have watched scoffing kebabs seven nights a week after a belly feed of alcohol are now fitness experts, apparently. Is Geordie Shore meant to be deceivingly inspiring us youths? At the end of our merry, mistake-laden twenties, is there a golden sky?

Aside from workout DVD's, now the vast majority of them all have their very own clothing ranges, and fair play to them.

Most of the characters consistently remark on the show that they have about two A-levels between them and as far as I am aware, besides Vicky Pattison who recently became the latest addition to the Loose Women panel, none of them have ever attended college.

That is not meant to be condescending, although it probably sounds that way. A lot of the most successful people in the world do not have college degrees and didn't get 500 points in their Leaving Cert.

What is a degree worth nowadays anyway?

If Geordie Shore is anything to go by, we can all become successful entrepreneurs by just going on television, getting hammered and engaging in antics that would make anybody's mammy say fifty decades of the rosary.

This article was written tongue-in-cheek, but leaving such sentiments aside, is this how the next generation will adjudicate their futures?

They will look at us post-Celtic Tiger kids who are running ourselves into the ground trying to get a degree which will land us a job (maybe) that pays €25-30k, if we are lucky.

Then they will look to Geordie Shore, where people get paid to go to Greece for six weeks to do nothing but drink, have sex and completely disregard any morals they have, to then come home to business ventures worth up to €100k waiting for them.

Which would you choose?

* This article was amended on 07/02/2016