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errr no?
Made the wrong choice. Kinda stuck. 17years young :(
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Why is it out of your league, don't put yourself down other will pick up on it!
As good as qualifications are employers love ambition and burning enthusiasm for the job.
What do you want to do, decided and go for it!
I quit 6th form last christmas, I couldn't stand it one bit. Had a job lined up which was promising but a clash of personalities ruined that. I've applied to a few jobs but I've had the usual "sorry we would like someone with experience, although i'm sure you could do the job" 
Over the summer (July-October) I had a gardening job, 8 hours per week. It kept me on tickover, although I really had to watch my money. I lived on £20 one month, fair enough I live with my mum but £20 is still not very much.
Start of last month I decided, sod it, If they won't employ me then stuff them! I'll start up my own business, after 5/6 weeks of hard work getting everything sorted out it's all starting to take off (fingers x it will last)
I wouldn't like to say if you've made the wrong choice or not, its completely up to the individual.
Over the summer (July-October) I had a gardening job, 8 hours per week. It kept me on tickover, although I really had to watch my money. I lived on £20 one month, fair enough I live with my mum but £20 is still not very much. Start of last month I decided, sod it, If they won't employ me then stuff them! I'll start up my own business, after 5/6 weeks of hard work getting everything sorted out it's all starting to take off (fingers x it will last)
I wouldn't like to say if you've made the wrong choice or not, its completely up to the individual.
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If you actually want some real advice from me: do some A Levels.
Yeah, thats what i would like to do. But I'm warrey about making the commitment, i mean dropping out of collage. I dont look like a potential employee as it is let alone with 5 months since i finished exams passed and i can't say i've done anything to fill them!
Long hard think me thinks!
I don't know. Just seems like one of those things "other" people do. Ill dig out the link and have a proper read of it again
I quit 6th form last christmas, I couldn't stand it one bit. Had a job lined up which was promising but a clash of personalities ruined that. I've applied to a few jobs but I've had the usual "sorry we would like someone with experience, although i'm sure you could do the job"
Start of last month I decided, sod it, If they won't employ me then stuff them! I'll start up my own business, after 5/6 weeks of hard work getting everything sorted out it's all starting to take off (fingers x it will last)
I wouldn't like to say if you've made the wrong choice or not, its completely up to the individual.
Wow thats cool. i like your attitude
Absolute best of luck - i have a lot of respect for someone who can start their own business. Especially when yer young!Err thanks but no thanks i think the politest way to put it is
(apologies about the swear above, wont happen again. thank you)
Wow thats cool. i like your attitude
Thankyou
(This christmas smilies make them worth so much more 
)If you decide you want to start up something yourself, drop me an email. I went on a brilliant 5 hour course, provided free of charge. Talking about everything you need to know, to setup your own business. Can give you some information to a few sites
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You're better off doing some A Levels rather than any of these 'qualifications' they make up at colleges. You say why would anyone employ you when you have 'nothing to your name', well why don't you go and get something to your name?
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I'd say stick with the education, if you're living with your parents then do everything you can to get as many bits of paper to your name. Experience does count for a lot but bits of paper count more in most specialised fields.
If you can't stand your current course then do open university or errrr... something like that? Some kind of education though! You got YEARS of not being in education in the future, the grass always *seems* greener etc.
If you can't stand your current course then do open university or errrr... something like that? Some kind of education though! You got YEARS of not being in education in the future, the grass always *seems* greener etc.
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Agreed, if you're serious about getting some decent qualifications then do some A-levels and specialise after that.
However, you mentioned your GSCE grades weren't great. I'm not sure whether that's due to lack of effort or lack of understanding, if it's the latter then perhaps you should focus more on showing enthusiasm and finding an apprenticeship in a trade rather than trying to force yourself into higher education because "that's what people do nowadays."
Both apply for me, I didn't get my butt into gear until the last minute and I only have myself to blame for that. And I'm not the academic type, in the sense that i need things to be relevant, practical and interesting if I'm to take it on board properly that is. Which at GCSE level nothing is!
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You only want it to be 'relevant, practical and interesting' so you don't have to work at it.
You need to get used to the fact that if you drop out of school with **** grades and just brush it off with 'i'm not the academic type', you're not going to get a decent job.
Excuse me?
Sorry for a moment then it almost sounded like you knew something about me
I'm not saying it becuase im a lazy person.
Im saying it becuase i do not want to spend 2 years sitting listening to someone spout out big buzz words.
Nor do i want to take 4 subjects, when only one of them interested me.
And im not brushing anything off, i take full responsibility for my more grades. I WAS (note the past tense) a lazy bum, i sat around bunking most my lessons smoking. Yeah i realised that was stupid, just took me until the end of year11 to realise that. And i bent over backwards to scrape together the 6a-c's i do have 2 weeks before the absolute final deadlines thank you very much.
Sorry if you dont like me, or you think im lazy or something. But dont attack me becuase you *think* im something im not. Ta
Sorry for a moment then it almost sounded like you knew something about me
I'm not saying it becuase im a lazy person.
Im saying it becuase i do not want to spend 2 years sitting listening to someone spout out big buzz words.
Nor do i want to take 4 subjects, when only one of them interested me.
And im not brushing anything off, i take full responsibility for my more grades. I WAS (note the past tense) a lazy bum, i sat around bunking most my lessons smoking. Yeah i realised that was stupid, just took me until the end of year11 to realise that. And i bent over backwards to scrape together the 6a-c's i do have 2 weeks before the absolute final deadlines thank you very much.
Sorry if you dont like me, or you think im lazy or something. But dont attack me becuase you *think* im something im not. Ta
why don't you get a job from now until next september, gives you time to think about what you want to do/can do and you'll be earning.
You're more likely to get a 'no experience needed' job at your age fresh from school, good time to look now to with people needing christmas temps, sho some enthusiasm and you might get a longer position.
You're more likely to get a 'no experience needed' job at your age fresh from school, good time to look now to with people needing christmas temps, sho some enthusiasm and you might get a longer position.
Yeah, thats what im thinking. Atleast its gives me some CV content and time to think. And that all important money.
Just sent off another CV and covering letter. Position was directly aimed at gap year / fresh out of collage students. I dont quite fit in that group but hay its worth i shot. 16k a year so i figure they are not looking for the bees knees.
I will probably, over the weekend, go into the town center and pass my CV around a few shops and the like fingers crossed.
Just sent off another CV and covering letter. Position was directly aimed at gap year / fresh out of collage students. I dont quite fit in that group but hay its worth i shot. 16k a year so i figure they are not looking for the bees knees.
I will probably, over the weekend, go into the town center and pass my CV around a few shops and the like
fingers crossed.
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Then don't do any qualifications that these colleges make up
I didn't want to take 4 subjects, and as a matter of fact only one of them interested me. I still put myself through it though and now I'm actually studying what I wanted to in the first place. You do actually have to do things you don't like in order to get what you want.
Its like saying you want to be Olympic Champion but you don't want to get up at 5am every morning to train. You want to become an engineer or whatever you have your sights set on but you don't want to do any qualifications that will make it a whole lot easier to get there?
1st point taken, although I'm still convinced a level IT will be similar, if not the same.
I see where your coming from, and you have a very valid point. But just to be clear i would like to be a networks engineer. But i would like a million quid ya know? realistically i don't know what i want to do, or whatever hence the thread.
*edit* thanks for input people, keep it coming. Im off to bed gotta be up in a few hours =/ nn
I see where your coming from, and you have a very valid point. But just to be clear i would like to be a networks engineer. But i would like a million quid ya know? realistically i don't know what i want to do, or whatever hence the thread.
*edit* thanks for input people, keep it coming. Im off to bed gotta be up in a few hours =/ nn
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I did A-levels I wasn't interested in, I was told to stick them out, terrible choice, worst two years of my life, really sucked hard, you should study what you have a passion for because you should enjoy studying. I'm damn lucky in that I managed to get on an Audio Technology BSc with Chemistry and Biology A-levels.
If I were you get a naff job now, cane it until Feb then travel and just come back happier still with bucketloads of time to still sort yourself out.
If I were you get a naff job now, cane it until Feb then travel and just come back happier still with bucketloads of time to still sort yourself out.
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My advise would be to sick it out till you finish your current course, so you atleast haven't throw any possible grades (only skimmed this topic so i'm sure what your doing but ill read it later) and then take some time out and get some money behind you.
I had it planned out to go to college and then uni, i flunked college, bunked of lessons, didn't go to exams and ended up in a factory. 18k a year a basic for doing practically nothing was great....for a few months and it opened my eyes and made me do something about it. i quit last month after just over a year there and had saved just short 6k whilst not being shy of anything i wanted anyway (living at home paying sod all meant i could do that
) and i wanted to travel but i didn't want to go at it alone (didn't have the balls unfortunatly) so i literally took a day off work, drove 200 miles to a uni that i applied where i knew one person for and never went back to work and i'm glad i didn't as i really do hope to make something of this....but currently im enjoying the lazyness of being a student and need to get my arse into gear
I had it planned out to go to college and then uni, i flunked college, bunked of lessons, didn't go to exams and ended up in a factory. 18k a year a basic for doing practically nothing was great....for a few months and it opened my eyes and made me do something about it. i quit last month after just over a year there and had saved just short 6k whilst not being shy of anything i wanted anyway (living at home paying sod all meant i could do that
) and i wanted to travel but i didn't want to go at it alone (didn't have the balls unfortunatly) so i literally took a day off work, drove 200 miles to a uni that i applied where i knew one person for and never went back to work and i'm glad i didn't as i really do hope to make something of this....but currently im enjoying the lazyness of being a student and need to get my arse into gear
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My advice:
If you only got poor GCSE results due to doing silly stuff like not revising properly then bump them up a grade or 2, or just put 8 GCSEs at grade A-C. Only do this if you are prepared to take the risk, telling fibs on your CV can get you fired and under no circumstances would I do it myself but I know capable people who have just to get their foot in the door.
The other option is, you want to learn something interesting, do hands on work and travel too? Why not pop down to your local army recruitment centre? You will do basic training and then you can go into an engineer/IT role. Its rather out there but after your initial 3 years you can either sign on for a long stint or take your existing skills and your new found motivation and walk into a civilian job.
If you only got poor GCSE results due to doing silly stuff like not revising properly then bump them up a grade or 2, or just put 8 GCSEs at grade A-C. Only do this if you are prepared to take the risk, telling fibs on your CV can get you fired and under no circumstances would I do it myself but I know capable people who have just to get their foot in the door.
The other option is, you want to learn something interesting, do hands on work and travel too? Why not pop down to your local army recruitment centre? You will do basic training and then you can go into an engineer/IT role. Its rather out there but after your initial 3 years you can either sign on for a long stint or take your existing skills and your new found motivation and walk into a civilian job.