Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Want to drop out of college

  • 27-04-2014 10:30pm
    #1
    ODochartaigh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 ✭


    So this is the situation:

    I'm coming to the end of my first year in college, studying Product Design. I feel fairly out of depth with the workload and after a few months of working part time in a bar I think I want to switch to a hospitality course related to bar management or bar tending. It would save a lot of money as I could switch to a college closer to home.

    The problem is I feel like I am just wasting a year of my life, along with a lot of money, for one year of a course that I should have never been in. I put it down on my CAO application without much thought and after doing reasonably well on my LC I got into it.

    If I switch to a hospitality course it will be a level 6 or 7, whereas my current course is for a level 8 hons. Is it worth my while dropping from a level 8 to a level 6 course? And will it look to employers as if I'm indecisive and can't finish things?

    I've only recently turned 18 so I have maybe enough time to take a year out completely and think about it more.

    Any advice?


Comments

  • #2
    sligoface
    Closed Accounts Posts: 556 ✭✭✭sligoface


    ODochartaigh wrote: »
    So this is the situation:

    I'm coming to the end of my first year in college, studying Product Design. I feel fairly out of depth with the workload and after a few months of working part time in a bar I think I want to switch to a hospitality course related to bar management or bar tending. It would save a lot of money as I could switch to a college closer to home.

    The problem is I feel like I am just wasting a year of my life, along with a lot of money, for one year of a course that I should have never been in. I put it down on my CAO application without much thought and after doing reasonably well on my LC I got into it.

    If I switch to a hospitality course it will be a level 6 or 7, whereas my current course is for a level 8 hons. Is it worth my while dropping from a level 8 to a level 6 course? And will it look to employers as if I'm indecisive and can't finish things?

    I've only recently turned 18 so I have maybe enough time to take a year out completely and think about it more.

    Any advice?

    As someone who took ten years to earn a bachelors after dropping out when I was a young lad, it is much harder to go back. I didn't study product design but my dept shared the same building and I know students who did the course and they struggled in first year as well but eventually the light switched on for them and they did really well.

    I think working in a bar while you go to college for a degree in product design is a much better option than dropping out, working in a bar until next year and then doing hospital ity or bar management. By the time you finish college you might be sick to the back teeth of that type of work and be stuck with a degree in a field you're burnt out on.

    Product design is a wide and varied field which can lead to a much wider range of employment, medical devices in particular are growing here in Ireland. You have plenty of time to find your niche in this field. Just because your comfortable pulling pints now doesn't mean you should or will want to stay there forever. Hospitality managers are not that high paid and work long hours on their feet, the environment can be stressful as well. There can be a good buzz to it all right but that is only any good to youbwhile you are young.

    College is supposed to be hard. Each year will bring its own challenges and first year is tough. You will gain confidence if you stick it out. Students who struggle with course material but work hard and don't give up will get respect from their lecturers and eventually they will get to where they ned to be, based on what I have seen having been through three colleges on both sides of the atlantic, having changed majors 2X.


  • #3
    Lou.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,532 ✭✭✭Lou.m


    ODochartaigh wrote: »
    So this is the situation:

    I'm coming to the end of my first year in college, studying Product Design. I feel fairly out of depth with the workload and after a few months of working part time in a bar I think I want to switch to a hospitality course related to bar management or bar tending. It would save a lot of money as I could switch to a college closer to home.

    The problem is I feel like I am just wasting a year of my life, along with a lot of money, for one year of a course that I should have never been in. I put it down on my CAO application without much thought and after doing reasonably well on my LC I got into it.

    If I switch to a hospitality course it will be a level 6 or 7, whereas my current course is for a level 8 hons. Is it worth my while dropping from a level 8 to a level 6 course? And will it look to employers as if I'm indecisive and can't finish things?

    I've only recently turned 18 so I have maybe enough time to take a year out completely and think about it more.

    Any advice?

    Stay in college for the year while you think about it more.


Advertisement