College decision

LegacyUser

I was all set for deferring my course for a year, but accepted the course before deferring - therefore, cant defer my course and have to re-apply next year if I want to take a year out - risky, seeing as I only scraped my course this year by 5 points.

I was going to go to college this year, but got a decent paying job about a month ago, so decided I'd defer.

Thing is, I told the manager I'd be deferring, which was probably the reason he gave me the job.

I'm sure he'll be bitching when I tell him now, cos there is a rake of training involved in my job and it would take him ages to get someone up to my standard.

I don't think I can be arsed re-applying for the CAO next Febuary. I want to go to college though - it's so tempting - all my friends are going up to the same college as me.
I think there's only one taking a year out (didn't meet college req., getting a recheck and will most likely be in college in October) and there's two or three repeating. I'm sure I'd be bored to **** at home, only 2 people max. around every evening (Almost everyone was taking a year out up until about 2 weeks ago).

Anyways, the manager will be bitching. It's a new shop, I've been here since the start (only about a month) and it's a specialised job (laser cartridge remanufacturing) so replacements will be hard to find.

What will I say to him?

I thought the process of deferral was to accept the course, then apply for a deferral, when it actually is to apply for a deferral via the college, then accept CAO - so it was a genuine mistake.

It's too risky re-applying for the CAO, and I'm tempted and looking forward to College, and I'm sure i'll get bored of the same 'ol 8.30 - 5.30 job quickly.

I suppose I'll try haggle my way out of the job, tell him i'll do weekends and try work out something during the week - maybe he can send me up cartridges to be remanufactured, or something. I'm not commuting though, so it will be hard to sort out, i'm sure.

aodh_rua

Have you contacted the College directly to confirm their views on your deferral? If they don't seem keen - try contacting the Students' Union in the college concerned, and in particular their Education Officer if they have one. There may be some loophole they can work to your advantage.

As a matter of interest - which College is it?

dangerman

i didn't go to college straight after the lc, i took a year out and took a job.

I was very jealous of all my friends who would go out any night of the week etc. always have interesting stuff to do etc. When I finally got to college the next year i discovered what i'd been missing.

A job is just a job, i know it's hard when u have to kinda screw someone over like your manager, but i'd defo take college -one of the funnest things in life- over 9-5 anyday.

But if your decided on deferring, aodh_rua's advice above seems the most sensible course of action.

Sleepy

A Defferral can be useful if you're earning good enough money to mean you can save quite a bit and let you enjoy yourself more when you do get to college.

Coming home every weekend for your first year of college is probably the worst thing you could possibly do if you want to make new friends in college so I'd knock that idea on the head right now. If the boss would let you bring up the materials and work on them in college, cool, you've a handy part-time job, but I wouldn't commit to travelling back every weekend to do it.

I'm sure if you contact the college admissions office or the students union there you might be able to sort something out. If you've a friendly doctor a "medical reason" for a deferral could probably be obtained

mycroft

You by the sounds of it already have your mind made up about going to college. You major concern seems to be, how to tell your boss.

Don't try and commute every week, you'll get the worse of both worlds.

Be upfront, tell him your concerns and worries, and you don't feel you can risk deferral, because of the narrow points margin. Apologise for the inconvenience, if he gets narky tell him that you simply hadn't planned to make a career out of this job away, and you're not putting your future in jeparody, for this job. Offer to help out in the interum, if he gets piss*d well fu*k him, you'd have hated working for someone who has such little regard for his staffs needs. I

oeNeo

oeNeo

the thread starter went unregged for a reason and not for you to pop his nick in later....
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Third_Echelon

its only a job... there will be plenty more jobs out there in the future.

The opportunity of college and the course you want to do is not an opportunity to be passed up. College outshines a job any day... I finished college in June 2003 with my degree and have been working just over a year now... I wish I was back in college... Best days of your life... Work sucks. Fact. The only upside is the money...

From your bosses point of view, if he had to sack you or make you redundant in the morning because of some economic reason or another, he would have no problems telling you that you had no job! Think of yourself first. He will find someone to replace you. You are by no means tied to this job.

Go to college, have fun, work hard and party even harder!!!

AngryBadger

No decision to be made here. You obviously want to go to college, so it's just a matter of working up the courage to tell your boss that you're leaving. Unless you're on some kind of contract ****e there's nothing he can really say or do. Granted you don't want to burn your bridges, but you're not the first person to do this, and you won't be the last.

If he's cool, he'll take it on the chin, and he'll bear in mind that you may be a great asset to him during the summers, and other times when there's a lull. Hell if you play your cards right, he might allow you to stay on part-time when you're in college.

Bottom line, you obviously want to go, and there's too much to lose by taking your chances next year, so try to tell him in a way that makes it clear you're sorry for putting him on the spot like this, there's really no other option for you, but that maybe you'd be happy to help train in a replacement, which will take pressure off your boss, and maybe help out part time when you're not in college.

vinnyfitz

cooledge - nobody is indspensable so don't worry too much about your boss.

If you want to do the decent thing by him tell him as soon as possible that you are leaving. That way he has as much time as possible to replace you.