Some Direction Needed for Someone Finally Getting Their Life Together

[Mundu]

The past 2 weeks have been fantastic for me! I've finally managed to get myself fit again thanks to some new medication and am finally trying to sort out what direction I'm going in instead of being stuck at home in pain all day long unable to venture outside.

I did my GCSEs and got fine grades and planned to do 3 A Levels and go to uni but because I've been seriously ill I'm in my 3rd year of 6th form and have one D in AS IT and should have 2 AS Levels in Art and Photography at the end of this school year.

My teachers and careers advisor have said the best thing for me to do would be to eith do a HND or foundation course and then go onto my degree as I really don't want to continue doing Art and Photography as I dispise the courses. I'm also concerned about these being vocation courses as I wanted to follow a more acedemic route.

The main problem is I have no idea what I would really like to do. There are a lot of things I'd like to try but career wise how can I choose what I want to do for the rest of my life with all the possibilitys there are? I obviously want to be paid well and do something I enjoy but I really have no idea what I would enjoy. I've been on Fast Tomato and been reccomended careers and picked what sounds interesting but I reallu have no idea what each of the careers really entails. For example I'd think all an air traffic controller would do is guide planes around all day but there must be something more to it I just don't know what.

These are what I've selected from the site anyway so you can get a slight idea of what I may be interested in:

Computer games designer
Radio / TV / film production assistant
Production manager
Medical technical officer
Photojournalist
I.T. - Network manager
Print manager/technologist
Photographer
Information scientist
Artist / designer
Software developer /Computer programmer
Architectural technologist
Air traffic controller
Forensic scientist
Aviation - pilot (fixed and rotary)
Architect
Multimedia designer / developer

People have said what do I enjoy doing and basically computers and hardware are my main thing but there are other things I'd like to try out that I don't know much about, Egyptology and Philosophy for example.

Basically I want to figure out what I want to do in the long term so I can decide what course I'm going to take after this year because atm I'm finiding it hard enough to concentrate on the work I've got because this is alway on my mind.

Maybe i'm thinking this over too much as I don't know anyone else who has really looked into these thing but other students seemed to have just picked subjects at face value and taken a gung ho attitude towards things.

 

[Mundu]

Thanks for the info guys. What are MScs, BScs and BEngs all university courses then? D4VE is a HNC like a HND a more vocational qalification or something different?

 

[Mundu]

Thanks for the info.

Scuzi thanks for the site it has a lot of info on there and I live very close to Heathrow so will definitely look in to this further.

 

[Mundu]

Well basically I'm decided on one thing atm I want to go to a decent uni in London. i don't know how I'm going to get on to the course or on what course but at least I've figured something out

I could finish my A Levels off at a college next year so if they let me continue the IT AS level I took 2 years ago that'll be Art, IT and Photography A levels and will give me enough points to get on a course but if I end up wanting to get on a course that needs specific A Levels then it's pretty pointless. I could do a HND in something then a degree but then I'll be waiting an extra year before I get to uni but I'll be doing something I like hopefully. I thought I could do a extended degree which would include the foundation course but I realised all the UCAS stuff had to be in in January so that idea wouldn't work.

The problem is I still have no idea what courses I'd enjoy. I'm trying to figure out what I like and something that involved computers and design or graphic artist or something similat but what does graphics design actually involve? The careers advisor talked about using a mac and I wouldn't mind but the fact I've never used one before is what I'm worried about and the fact that a lot of these things that sound interesting to me I've had no previous experience with is what I'm concerned about as I assume other people on the courses will have at least a little experience.