Regret leaving College but don't want to go back?

Glacier

I dropped out of College a couple of years ago for personal reasons, I wished I had finished but now I'm 23 & wouldn't really want to start again. If I'd finished I would probably be doing the traveling thing, this is harder to do without finished College. Anyone else in the same situation?

Rob_l

Im 25 and have started a new degree course at night I see no reason why it would be harder to go back surely you would be better able to choose what you want and more motivated to achieve it second time round

BaZmO*

Glacier wrote:

Anyone else in the same situation?

Why? So you can both have a moan about how sh1t life is?

I don't see the problem here. Why can't you go back to college?

Mullah

Thsi is a bit like Ned Flanders' father in the psychiatrist office isn't it?

"I've tried nothing and I'm fresh out of ideas man!"

BaZmO*

Mullah wrote:

Thsi is a bit like Ned Flanders' father in the psychiatrist office isn't it?

"I've tried nothing and I'm fresh out of ideas man!"

Haha. Spot on!

Mazeire

What stage were you at in your course when you left? Maybe you could transfer over some credits from your old course and skip a year or two so you wouldn't have to start totally from scratch? At this stage, you have over a year to look in to it so it might be worth doing?

Dudess

Glacier, sorry, but you have posted so many times about this on Work & Jobs and this forum, as well as sending me (and maybe others?) PMs. Yet you don't seem to be taking any of the advice on board. You start a thread, people post, thread abandoned. Please bear in mind that these fora aren't like After Hours. People are actually giving of their time to help you. And try to give more information - you've been asked to before and you just didn't.
Ok, you say you left college for personal reasons so it's clear you don't want to get into that side of things. Fair enough. But do you have one year done, two years? What course was it? If you were to return to college, what course would you like to do? Would it be the one you left, or a completely different one?
Going back to college at 50 is a bit of a big deal, 23 or 24 (wouldn't it be too late to go back this year?) is nothing. My advice on the info I have: Work your ass off for the next year, save money, explore what you like and what you could do out of it, maybe speak with career advisors. It seems like you want to have a college education behind you, or some form of training. So go back.
I went back at 23 - did a one-year cert which broke me back into the whole studying thing, then I finished the last two years of my arts degree, then I did a masters. Best decision ever. And there are flexible part-time jobs out there if you look hard enough - factories etc. These pay pretty good money.

bostonian

how can you regret something you don't want to do again? isn't that an oxymoron?

the_syco

Do a night course.

Dudess

Well OP, any of this taken on board?

Edit: Didn't think so.