what in the name of all that is holy am i going to do

someone tell me what i'm going to do with my life cause people, i got nothing lol

no particular interests, no qualifications apart from 1 or 2 which really won't help here

so come on people, theres only so much hair i can rip out of my head before i have to move south

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FFS seriously, unless you're an inanimate object or a vegetable, it's easy to do something with your life.

Make a list - what you enjoy, what you don't. Then imagine jobs which fit what you've written.

This is hardly something you should be asking strangers over the internet.

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how old are you? have you just finished A-Levels or GCSE's?

there are thousands of uni courses you could do, i'm sure you could find a few that would interest you.

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@#$%& qualifications. They mean jack. I have 2 awesome jobs and i didnt get either from having good qualifications. But i know others with degrees working in McDonalds.

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When you're alone and life is making you lonely
You can always go - downtown
When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry
Seems to help, I know - downtown
Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city
Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty
How can you lose?

the best thing to do is stop feeling sorry for yourself, tbh. I know that sounds blunt but you won't achieve anything sitting around going "I'm SOOOOO depressed "

well good for you Dave, if you got to have good jobs without qualifications, but a lot of people who don't have qualifications don't have good jobs, and in the same way, a lot that do have them also get good jobs.

i know degrees these days mean less than they did, say 20 years ago when relatively very few people went to uni, but it's still worth considering.

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Considering the massive ammount of debt that some students get in, thats a very debatable subject.

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very debatable, but it still has to be said that the majority of topmost earners of average households hold some form of professional income that has been earnt with the aid of a degree (excluding the minority few who make the 150 richlists. internet tycoons, inherited money, lottery winners, sportstars etc)


fully qualified surgeons for example, dentists, lawyers all earn more than a policeman or a council binman.


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I'm quite scared by the term:

"theres only so much hair i can rip out of my head before i have to move south"

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

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Get an internship somewhere for a semester, then use it as a base of qualification to apply somewhere else or stay in the company.

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> very debatable, but it still has to be said that the majority of
> topmost earners of average households hold some form of professional
> income that has been earnt with the aid of a degree (excluding the
> minority few who make the 150 richlists. internet tycoons, inherited
> money, lottery winners, sportstars etc)
>
>
> fully qualified surgeons for example, dentists, lawyers all earn more
> than a policeman or a council binman.

All true, but how many of those have gone through the sacrifice of going tens of thousands + into debt first? Not that many. Most have funding provided by previously successful parents who want their siblings to have equally successful careers. The whole university fees saga that came around 4 or 5 years back just served more to separate the classes. Ideally you'd want to go to uni, but I for one wouldn't even consider it when the total cost for a sustained good uni course comes to what I'd pay for a family car or even house in some cases...

I took a different approach, having a family that couldn't provide much financial support. I originally started doing a GNVQ when I left school, but ditched that soon after in favour of a work-based NVQ. Not only did I get the qualifications, but also a job at the end of it. It's no degree, but I was instantly into a stable, fully paid job, with a base to go further if desired.

@ DaveEllis, I'm doing my final year at uni doing a law degree. When I finish my course, I'm never going to look at a law book again, and I'm going to train as a primary school teacher because that's what I really enjoy. Sod the law degree, I don't need it to become a teacher. So why did I do it?

Whatever the debts I get into, I wouldn't have exchanged the last 2 years of university life for anything. I've had an amazing time, doing things which I would never had got the chance to do if I hadn't gone. THAT, my friend, is why university is worth going to. The life you lead. Anyone who goes "just" for a degree, and doesn't immerse themselves in the student culture, is wasting their money.

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cmon man theres bound to be something out there that you like doin, do that, and you will feel ten thousand times better and stop listening to pop music (eg simple plan) listen to other songs, music can make u feel so much better


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> Whatever the debts I get into, I wouldn't have exchanged the last 2
> years of university life for anything. I've had an amazing time, doing
> things which I would never had got the chance to do if I hadn't gone.
> THAT, my friend, is why university is worth going to. The life you
> lead. Anyone who goes "just" for a degree, and doesn't immerse
> themselves in the student culture, is wasting their money.
>


Totally agree Locke Cole! I did a film degree after school, and currently find myself in events management. Kind of related, but not really.

I wouldn't swap my three years at uni for anything as it was not only an academic education but truly a life education. Sounds very sappy, but also very true. The experiences I had I think are very much worth the $10,000 debt I accrued through the degree.

Under the Australian system, it's pretty much the cheapest loan I'm ever going to get, and will be paid off through by paying bit more tax over the next five years or so. Sweet!

@ Iceman Paul - qualifications and all that really don't matter in the long run- it's the relationships and people you know and love that matter

yes a good route is the work-based NVQ type of thing, where you can earn the money, but also get a piece of paper and be qualified at the end of it, if you don't want to go down the route of straight forward studying. learn a trade (plumbing, electrician) or something if it interests you.


and as for the argument of the debt putting people off from going to uni, hasn't the rule just changed from this september that no fees are paid at all till you earn over £15k per year? or am i wrong? fees for 1 year are approx. £3k, and the government used to pay £2k of that, and the student had to pay the rest depending on their household earnings situation, or not at all. but now has it changed so the student pays the full £3k per year after they earn?

i'm in debt of about £9k at the mo, and it rises by about £30 per month, but now coming to the end of my masters degree, i should get a job with 2 years paid training, then it should go up when i become qualified, so i have no worries about paying my debt, even though i am skint right now and it seems daunting to have that debt.

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> and as for the argument of the debt putting people off from going to
> uni, hasn't the rule just changed from this september that no fees are
> paid at all till you earn over £15k per year? or am i wrong? fees for
> 1 year are approx. £3k, and the government used to pay £2k of that,
> and the student had to pay the rest depending on their household
> earnings situation, or not at all. but now has it changed so the
> student pays the full £3k per year after they earn?

Yeah, only when you earn £15k per annum (at least in my sisters case). My only concern with that is if it doesn't scale. Eg The more you earn, the more you pay back. Can't imagine it's not like that, but a £15k basic salery doesn't get you very far, so if you have to pay off a set sum out of that, you're pretty snookered.