Will my A-Levels help me get where I want to be?

Hi,

I'm in year 11, and and coming up to choose my as-level choices. I'm not sure what exactly I want to be, but I am quite academic and arty aswell, I was thinking maybe something in engineering? Mainly I want to be in a secure financial position after leaving university (e.g. have a solid job and earn a substantial wage before too long).

So far, I think I may take these:

Maths
Physics
Chemistry
Photography

Any advice from someone who has been through this, or just direct me into a proffesion?

Thanks alot

p.s. Its my first post on TSR so dont be too harsh if I've posted this into the wrong section or something haha

Reply 1

Historophilia

Your first three are excellent, fine for engineering.

But Photography not so much, if you want to do a creative A level have you considered doing Fine Art? Much more respected, and would also mean that you could do Architecture at Uni, an excellent degree to have with a decent career path.

Either that or I'd say keep the creativeness to a hobby, get a decent camera and take pictures in your sparetime, maybe get a blog or tumblr to show them off.

Reply 2

lucas13

those are suitable for engineering, what other careers have you looked into?

Reply 3

najinaji

Do whichever A Levels will make you happiest.

Reply 4

Sabriella

A lot of photography A Level courses leave a lot to be desired and are often not actually necessary in learning about photography. Take the advice of the person above; do something like fine art and learn Photography in your spare time. With the help of a friend at the same level as me, I taught myself photography.

Reply 5

dsutt

@Historophilia Thanks for the advice, the last one (photography) was really the one that I wasn't so sure on, I dont have a great work ethic so I didn't want to do another intensive a-level, but I wasnt sure photography was right for me, heres the sixth form I'm going to:
http://www.fortismeresixthform.com/departments/
They don't do fine art, but could you suggest anything else that might be right for me? I do geography GCSE so maybe that, hmmm, thanks for the advice <3

@lucas13 I do video editing, including 3d motion animation on proffessional programs, and I was considering going into visual effects or somthing, but its so hard to do well in it and I'd probably end up freelancing for years after university which isnt what i want to do. other than that i havent looked into much

@najinaji I'm more interested in long term happiness than just having a good time in 6th form, so as long as I'm not depressed then I dont mind having a lot of strain and being a but annoyed haha

@Sabriella sounds good :smile:

So now im fairly sure im not going to do photography, have a look at the link (above) for my sixth form, and suggest something better? thanks alot, im impressed with how many replies I got in a short time. peace