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College or work?!

  • 11-08-2008 9:42am
    #1
    needhelpguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭


    I need some advice and just to get this out there to clear my head.

    I am in my early 20s and finished college two years ago. I did a diploma in a field I have no interest in persuing a career. I have been working full time since in a job I am completely bored of. I have no direction or goals. I bought a flashy big engined car that is expensive to run that I don't need. I am pretty much existing rather than living. I have no savings atm.

    I have seen a course in a college 15 miles from home that I would be interested in. It's a one year fetac course that, to be honest, wont really do much for me in terms of getting a job in that area but it would be very interesting to do and would give me an opportunity to go back to college which I have been thinking about.

    Thing is, I'll have to quit the day job, and although I will have some money to pay for fees and such, I would be broke. I know that the job market isn't the best right now so I'm not too positive I could get a part time job, and I would need certain weekends off anyway. On what I earn from work I could survive for a few months but that's it. I may have to sell the car.

    Thing is - these are a lot of big changes over a small timeframe. If I had known about this course months ago I could have planned, but I only found out about it a few weeks ago.

    If I decide to go for the course, should I do it now or wait until Sept next year and have more time to prepare and save for the course?


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  • #2
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    If you're floating around working in jobs you don't care about, you may as well go to college instead!

    Can you sell your expensive car?


  • #3
    craichoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,706 ✭✭✭craichoe


    needhelpguy wrote: »
    I need some advice and just to get this out there to clear my head.

    I am in my early 20s and finished college two years ago. I did a diploma in a field I have no interest in persuing a career. I have been working full time since in a job I am completely bored of. I have no direction or goals. I bought a flashy big engined car that is expensive to run that I don't need. I am pretty much existing rather than living. I have no savings atm.

    I have seen a course in a college 15 miles from home that I would be interested in. It's a one year fetac course that, to be honest, wont really do much for me in terms of getting a job in that area but it would be very interesting to do and would give me an opportunity to go back to college which I have been thinking about.

    Thing is, I'll have to quit the day job, and although I will have some money to pay for fees and such, I would be broke. I know that the job market isn't the best right now so I'm not too positive I could get a part time job, and I would need certain weekends off anyway. On what I earn from work I could survive for a few months but that's it. I may have to sell the car.

    Thing is - these are a lot of big changes over a small timeframe. If I had known about this course months ago I could have planned, but I only found out about it a few weeks ago.

    If I decide to go for the course, should I do it now or wait until Sept next year and have more time to prepare and save for the course?

    How about you work out the direction you want to go in and follow that path. Are you actually interested in the course, i mean you sound like your pretty fickle.


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