@Anti-Chav This isn't meant to be boasting on my brothers behalf. I only mention it as a motivational story. He left school with similar qualifications to yourself. He was asthmatic, colour blind and dyslexic at a time in the 1980's and 1990's when no-one recognised those last two. They just told him he was thick and put him at the bottom of the class. His first job was in a newsagents. He managed to get a job a few years later at a car dealer in their parts department. He worked his way up to become the manager of his department. Then, because his wife wanted to move area and she had easily transferable skills, they moved and he became a house husband for a few years. When they needed him to get back to work he had no contacts, no qualifications, but a can-do attitude. Despite that he got a job on a building site which he hated and then resigned from. He was really struggling for money and after he sold his car to pay bills I gave him my bike as a means of transport.
Eventually he got a job at the local power station. After a number of years he took a chance and went contracting on an offshore gas rig. He really hated that but the experience opened doors for him because it gave him skills that most people don't have. He's now worked around Europe and the UK, had job offers in the UAE, drives an Aston Martin Vantage and earns a couple of hundred thousand a year.
The point of this story is that doing well at school helps you start. But you're attitude, taking calculated risks and hard work is the most important thing. It's not (that) important what you achieved at school if you have the aptitude to turn your life around. The importance of that degree diminishes with time, age and work experience. Yes it's far better if you can. But it's not the whole story. Your working life has only just started and you can absolutely turn it around, change it, move it in any direction you choose.
Go for it! But you have to work hard at it, including the boring times.
Don't need a degree in IT for an IT job. Waste of 3 years
Totally agree with this. I work in IT and don't have a degree.