After noticing a few things, I've begun to wonder where my place is in tommorrows society. I'm currently studying at sixth-form level in the UK at a local college and plan to continue towards university after a year or two more of A-levels. But since 2007, the number of students attending university has doubled and it's becoming harder and harder for graduates to find jobs matching their level of education and it's made me consider a few things: - Should I continue in education? - If i decide to continue, will there be a decent chance that I will get the job I want? - Is the debt worth it all? At the moment I have very little ideas baout what I want to do as a job. I've considered becoming a lecturer, a job in radio or other media, or something with music. Unfortunatly I have very little experience in any of these fields (apart from the fact that I listen to music and read newspapers of course ) So basically I was wondering if I could get any advice from you guys on Careers, studying and other decisions. I'd like to know if you've been successful in obtaining a career through higher education. Sorry for the rant, and thanks for reading
Keep going through school. Get as much education as possible and then look for a job. If you can't find one and the debt's too much to handle, just kill yourself.
More people are getting degrees, so not having a degree will make it even harder to get a job. Take a year off before University, travel if you can, just live and experience life for a while and try new things. Figure out what you want. And honestly, it doesn't REALLY matter what you get a degree in, so long as you have one. Degrees are just pieces of paper. It's what you know that matters. But it seems like your main thing is to figure out what you want to do.
it is literally different for everyone... we can't actually tell you what to do with your life... Do whatever feels right for YOU....there is no set way of how to live life.. you do whatever works the best for YOUR life.
I think you should continue with education, because you said people with a university education have doubled since 2007, making jobs harder and harder to get, even with some simple job in retail or something, who are they going to hire, you, Mr never qualified drop out, or Gary motherfucking Oak over there with his masters degree in business? It does really depend on what you want to get into though... but since you don't know what you want to do I think it's much safer to continue in education. I personally am not going to university because a degree doesn't really cover what I want to get into (film industry) preferably an editor, I'm already in a film class at college but I think it would be better if I don't bother with some trivial degree at uni and focus on getting lots of experience first hand and get an internship or something. Obviously this is all just my opinion.
Did you know the likelihood of someon dropping out of college significantly increases if the person doesn't know what they want to do in life?
lol thats like saying divorce rates are higher for married people lol just to get things clear im not making fun of you, lots of things are misinterpreted when written and not voiced
Thanks for the replys guys, Thats the thing, I'm really confused and don't know what subjects to take or even what I want as a career. I want to find something that i'd really be passionate about. But basically, I'd like to know other peoples experiences and what peoples opinions are on if its worth it or not.
Well duh of course you are going to be more likely to drop out if you are confused about life and what you want to do with it, that's like saying retards are more likely to lose a game of chess.
I'm not saying that at all...I'm saying that if you get to the point of dropping out of college, chances are you're having doubts about what you want to do, you wouldn't just drop out randomly whilst being totally dedicated to what you're studying. I just think if you really don't know what to do it's much safer to get a degree in business or even science or something.
But is it safer if he's more likely to drop out? I took a semester off after my first year of college, with the original intention of dropping out because I hated what I was doing. But that time off helped me to figure out what I wanted to do, now I'm back and I actually love my classes and enjoy doing my work. From my experience, it's safer to take some time off to assess yourself before just diving in because everybody else is.
Again what I'm saying is people that drop out obviously dropped out because they are confused, if the OP (or people like him) go into college, focused on getting a degree for future life then there isn't going to be any problems.
Nah university (american college) dropping out of sixth form would be really dumb though, you wouldn't be qualified for anything else other than minimum wage and wouldn't be able to go to uni if you decided to in a few years.
I'm expecting they are meaning american colleges = universities. Keep going through sixth form, you'd be shooting yourself in the foot if you dropped out of that. You mentioned radio, a mate of mine whilst at uni in london got experience as a dj on the campus internet radio station. There are loads of different societies one can join, so you decide when you're there. As far as the worth of a degree, from your job aspirations, it'd be pretty much a given that you'd need a degree to lecture. As for radio, i've no idea. My experience, I became unwell at uni in scotland and dropped out. I don't regret doing it, as its of very little relation to what i'm doing five years down the road. However, like others have said, it is a good idea to have a back up plan, and a degree gives you that security. The debt only starts being paid back over a certain income threshold. The only other real options I can think of are apprenticeship schemes in businesses, but a lot of those want graduates. However, you are the only one who can decide whether to go or not, we don't have to live with that decision... GL