My options?

ForeverYoung90

Hey dont want to bore ye to death now but heres my story!
Did my leaving last year at 19(repeated 5th year:rolleyes:)got a measly 275pts and decided to do renewable energy in my local IT.From the off I knew it was a wrong choice as I hated with a passion maths and science in school.This of course was an engineering degree and entailed just that.I dropped out after easter and am currently doing ecdl in fas and reapplied to cao.
At the moment I have accounting&finance down as no.1 but I may change this again.I liked business in school so I think this would be a good option.But on the other hand Il be 20 in july and having second thoughts about going back to college as I always had a thing for joining the guards and low and behold they are finally recruiting again.I feel old to be going back to 1st year college with 17 year olds and I also have a part-time job at the moment from which I had since age 16.Id like to get a degree as I know it will give me lots of options(my parents preach)but 4 years seems like a long time to be studying.
I also know a few people who have moved abroad to London and places to work which sound very appealing also.

Im a bit all over the the place but basically:
1.Go back to college
2.Work part-time and apply for the guards
3.Emigrate

Now wheres that bottle of brandy!:D

Teasey

Well one thing I will say to you - don't feel like you're too old to go back to college. I was in a similar position to you - went into a course straight out of school which I hated with a passion, dropped out and went working for 6 months in an office. But I went back. I turned 21 in first year and yes, I was a bit older than some (but definitely not all!) of the other people in my class but it didn't matter a bit. I still made loads of friends, most of whom I would still count amonst my best friends now 5 years after graduation. I never regretted doing it and I never felt like the "old lady" during my 4 years there. If anything I found it a bonus as I had the maturity and experience of an extra couple of years on Earth!

I think the best thing you can do at the moment is take some time to really research each of your options. Think about things like the day to day aspects of each choice both in the short term and long term - what do you really want to be doing in 5 - 10 years? Do you want to spend your day in an offie or would you prefer to be up and about? Talk to people who are in full time education, people who are currently training to be guards.... find out what each option is REALLY like before you commit.

You're obviously a bit confused and that's normal so don't rush into another decision that you might regret. Think it all through, remember there's no right or wrong decision - the only thing that matters is what's right for you.

Good luck!

AARRRGH

Couple of things:

You're still really young, so forget about the "too old" thoughts. Really, you're almost a child!

Get a degree. Seriously, it will give you soooo many options when you are older. For example, if you do Finance and then want a career change to IT, you can do a postgrad in IT. And a postgrad in IT is seen as a lot more valuable than it's undergrad equivilent.

Don't stress too much about not really knowing what you want to do with your life. That's totally normal, and most people go to their grave without ever figuring it out.

Be aware if you do finance you will have to do a stats class, possibly for two years, and that will be tricky if you don't like maths, or are crap at it.

Just be aware you have LOADS OF TIME to make up your mind. Seriously, time is on your side. So don't rush into anything.

ForeverYoung90

Teasey wrote: »

Well one thing I will say to you - don't feel like you're too old to go back to college. I was in a similar position to you - went into a course straight out of school which I hated with a passion, dropped out and went working for 6 months in an office. But I went back. I turned 21 in first year and yes, I was a bit older than some (but definitely not all!) of the other people in my class but it didn't matter a bit. I still made loads of friends, most of whom I would still count amonst my best friends now 5 years after graduation. I never regretted doing it and I never felt like the "old lady" during my 4 years there. If anything I found it a bonus as I had the maturity and experience of an extra couple of years on Earth!

I think the best thing you can do at the moment is take some time to really research each of your options. Think about things like the day to day aspects of each choice both in the short term and long term - what do you really want to be doing in 5 - 10 years? Do you want to spend your day in an offie or would you prefer to be up and about? Talk to people who are in full time education, people who are currently training to be guards.... find out what each option is REALLY like before you commit.

You're obviously a bit confused and that's normal so don't rush into another decision that you might regret. Think it all through, remember there's no right or wrong decision - the only thing that matters is what's right for you.

Good luck!

Thanks for the reply.:)

ForeverYoung90

AARRRGH wrote: »

Couple of things:

You're still really young, so forget about the "too old" thoughts. Really, you're almost a child!

Get a degree. Seriously, it will give you soooo many options when you are older. For example, if you do Finance and then want a career change to IT, you can do a postgrad in IT. And a postgrad in IT is seen as a lot more valuable than it's undergrad equivilent.

Don't stress too much about not really knowing what you want to do with your life. That's totally normal, and most people go to their grave without ever figuring it out.

Be aware if you do finance you will have to do a stats class, possibly for two years, and that will be tricky if you don't like maths, or are crap at it.

Just be aware you have LOADS OF TIME to make up your mind. Seriously, time is on your side. So don't rush into anything.

Ok thanks bud!:)

Pythia

My boyfriend just went back to college at 23 and he doesn't feel all that old in his course so don't worry at all!

If you don't like maths, I'm not sure accounting and finance is for you though. There can be a lot of maths in finance. Perhaps you should do a more generic business course as it will have less maths.

Gman99

I started college at 17, 5 years ago. The majority of my class were aged around 19-20 in first year.