Anyone Else Lost?

Glacier

I'm not sure if this should be in the Jobs or Personal section, but anyway. I dropped out of UCD Arts a couple of years ago after 2nd year. I spent the last year traveling and now wonder what to do. I'm 23 and don't know how I could find a meaningful career having not finished. Where can you really go without college Degree. Anyone else in the same situation?
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howaya

- I feel for you. I dropped out of my first college programme and had a difficult time in college in all. I took the long way round. I had a tough time when I was 23 too. As soon as I completed the course, I tried to do lots of stuff I missed out on while at college. Stuff that doesn't require a college degree, yet carries great meaning.
I think by meaningful, you may mean traditionally middle-class. When you find stuff that you enjoy and get a kick out of, and when you take time with it, it'll have meaning for you. When you get good at that stuff, you can make a living from it.
I would hazard to say that most graduate jobs are no more meaningful to those doing them than most non-graduate jobs. Don't trap yourself in the thinking of others. You did Arts and you travelled, so you have lots of interests and reasons to get out of bed. What you put into stuff does a lot to lend meaning to it.

eddiehobbs

I take it you dont want to go back to college so your fairly limited. Depends on your interests. In same situation as yourself at the moment. Dropped outa college twice, looking for a career that i can see myself doing long term, no qualifications. You could try something like the guards or army??

Dudess

OP, I would like to recommend you finish your degree since you've come quite far in it already. But I'm not in a position to make this recommendation because I don't know why you left college in the first place. Maybe you could fill us in?
And did you pass or fail second arts?

LegacyUser

I left school after third year and after a year or so of growing up i realised id made a mistake, i spent months worrying about what id do with my life, or how id make a career.

Then my sister in law got knocked down by a drunk driver, she nearly died and my nephews lived with me for awhile. That's when i knew life was too short for worrying about this sort of stuff. If you knuckle down at whatever you do, you can make a career of it.

Stand back, take a look at your options and remember.. you've got your health.

D Bronc

There is a site you can go to called www.careerdirections.ie that will help you realise what you're strong/weak points are, and what kind of jobs would suit you.

Hope this helps:) .

Maynooth

Remember too that college isn't the be all and end all of everything. Some of the most successful people I know didn't go to college and are happy in their jobs. There's something out there for everyone. What do you love? What are your interests?

antoinolachtnai

If you think you need a degree, get a degree.

If you don't want to get a degree, or can't for some reason, and want to get a good job, get a crap job to start, do it as well as you possibly can and look for a good job from there.

The main thing is to get moving. Make something happen for yourself.

DinoBot

Glacier wrote:

I'm not sure if this should be in the Jobs or Personal section, but anyway. I dropped out of UCD Arts a couple of years ago after 2nd year. I spent the last year traveling and now wonder what to do. I'm 23 and don't know how I could find a meaningful career having not finished. Where can you really go without college Degree. Anyone else in the same situation?
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Its a tough one but if I could give any advice its "make plans" Ive seen so many of my friends and friends of my brothers reach their mid-20's and become unsure what they want to do. They ended up drifting for years.

You really need to decided what you want out of life and work toward that goal. I know, I know, easier said then done. But don't put it off !! Life is not something that will happen later, while your busy wondering what you want to do it will pass you by.

newestUser

Dudess wrote:

OP, I would like to recommend you finish your degree since you've come quite far in it already. But I'm not in a position to make this recommendation because I don't know why you left college in the first place. Maybe you could fill us in?
And did you pass or fail second arts?

I would recommend you don't finish your degree, you didn't seem to be particularly motivated to do it in the first place. If somebody asked me for advice about what job/career they should follow, "spend one/two years studying arts" would be the last thing I'd advise them to do.

1. It's a waste of time, you weren't interested in it in the first place, and it's time you could spend investigating other options.

2. It's a waste of money, because instead of being a student you could be working, sussing out jobs, and also because if you decide to go back to college to study for a degree related to what you want to do, you'll have to pay fees all the way through, where as things stand you'd only have to pay fees for the first two years.