Ok so I'm just looking for some opinions, which route is better in your opinion? Which is easier to get into?
I'm just weighing up my options here, I left school without getting the results I needed (due do some personal circumstances) only to discover that two years on, medicine is still very much what I want to do, kind of. I've heard it's ridiculously competitive for graduates and so it's basically a shot in the dark, what about mature students?
My options are:
a) Study Biomedical science, possibly get disheartened by the long road ahead. Get in debt. Get left with a degree in a career that I don't want if I fail. Become one of thousands all doing the same things to get relatively few places. Granted I'll have experience of studying and uni life but aside from that I'll still be quite immature at the end of it and have very little life experience.
b) Train and join the Merchant Navy. This has been something that has been bugging me for ages. I'll have a trade, I can see the world a bit and have experience of working with people from all walks of life in tough conditions at times. I'll have money behind me so I can support myself through to a point and still be eligible for funding. So after a few years, come out and do an access course/Highers and then apply? And at least then If it doen't work out I can go back to the ships?
Which is better? Would I be ignored if I didn't have a degree?
Thanks