Getting a job without going to UNI?

[Andr3w]

Hey as some of you may know im applying for the royal air force and have my aptitude exam on tuesday

Anyway i have been looking at the bigger picture and thinking "what if i dont get in" etc, and decided if i dont get in, once i have finished my BTEC in software development at college i would like to go straight into a job.

Would this be a good or bad idea? There is not a specific thing i would like to go into, i would proberly go to a job centre and see what types of careers are avaliable and what i would like to do so i dont need to go into ICT.

There are reason i dont want to go to UNI but i really really dont want to go , personal reasons please dont ask.

What are my chance's in life of succeeding if i dont go to UNI? Multiple people have told me i will end up in dead in jobs with no money and no life if i dont get qualifications :S, is this true?

 

[Andr3w]

I'm currently working as a Technical Team Manager for the 3rd (maybe even 2nd now) largest IT company in the world supporting all manner of systems.

I didn't go to Uni

Of course, it depends what area of business you want to go into. IT doesn't need degrees.

Well done on that my fellow yorkshireman!

What company is it if you dont mind me asking?


edit:

Also probs are that 90% of jobs want experiance which you can get in your sandwhich year at uni, i would have no qualifications but working at a garden centre on weekends

 

[Andr3w]

I have been looking around on some job sites such as http://www.jobsearch.co.uk/

and there are jobs for trainee's to start on say as low as 13-15k a year to be trained up to do sales/marketing/consultent etc which will gain experiance for me if i did this.

And thats only looking at ICT, i havent looked at other careers yet.