[StevenKnott]

Bonjour all,

I feel as if I'm in a bit of a pickle!
Since I can remember I've wanted to go to University; however, now the time has come to start seriously thinking about it, I'm ever so worried I'm choosing to go for the wrong reasons.
As of yet, I had no idea what career I want to pursue.
I kinda feel as I want to go to Uni because it's the first steps of becoming an independent adult, it's a life changing expirence, and broadens your views of life and every day things, plus making great friends and what not.
Of course, the main and most important reason for going to Uni is to get a degree of which will help you to pursue a career!
However, as I said earlier, I don't have a clue what I want to do nor what course I want to study.
With that in mind, am I really choosing to go to Uni for the right reasons?

[Intriguing Alias]

(Original post by StevenKnott)
Bonjour all,

I feel as if I'm in a bit of a pickle!
Since I can remember I've wanted to go to University; however, now the time has come to start seriously thinking about it, I'm ever so worried I'm choosing to go for the wrong reasons.
As of yet, I had no idea what career I want to pursue.
I kinda feel as I want to go to Uni because it's the first steps of becoming an independent adult, it's a life changing expirence, and broadens your views of life and every day things, plus making great friends and what not.
Of course, the main and most important reason for going to Uni is to get a degree of which will help you to pursue a career!
However, as I said earlier, I don't have a clue what I want to do nor what course I want to study.
With that in mind, am I really choosing to go to Uni for the right reasons?

There's nothing wrong with not knowing what career you want.

What A-levels are you taking? Which do you enjoy?

[StevenKnott]

(Original post by hassi94)
There's nothing wrong with not knowing what career you want.

What A-levels are you taking? Which do you enjoy?

I'm doing Sociology, English Lit & Lang, Media and IT (next year I intend to do AS Business)

[Intriguing Alias]

(Original post by StevenKnott)
I'm doing Sociology, English Lit & Lang, Media and IT (next year I intend to do AS Business)

Which do you enjoy most?

[TGH1]

(Original post by StevenKnott)
I'm doing ... Media

Cue a deluge of unnecessary derogatory accusations about OP.

I recommend you go to some subject taster sessions at uni open days. Some people find them revelationary, or at the very least help them to rule out what they don't want to do.

[StefanieLouise]

There's nothing wrong with going to university to study what you enjoy. I haven't the slightest idea of what I want to do for a career either, but I would definitely recommend going on taster days as someone said above, as I didn't and ended up doing a subject I didn't enjoy and dropped out. It can be difficult to find something you want to study if you don't know what you'd like to do as a career, so really have a good think about it. Do you enjoy the subject in a wider sense? Would you be happy to focus on one subject for three years? Or would you be willing to do a combined honours course, or something that's a bit more varied?

On the plus side, university is a great opportunity to gain independence whilst figuring out what you want to do once you leave. It's difficult to find a job these days, as I'm sure everyone knows, so at least being at uni means you won't have to worry about that until you graduate.

[MusicTechnologyStudent]

You sound like someone who might be better off going out and getting some life experience for a year or so and then going to university if/when you're more sure about what you want to do and why.

Careful though. Sometimes things might change which may make a difference in other respects. E.g. I wouldn't have advised anyone to wait last year because of fees changing.

[Judgey]

Some people here may disagree, but going to University without even knowing what subject you want to pursue (this isn't the same as career) is a recipe for disaster and something you will likely regret. Yeah, you may get lucky and love your course, or you may end up like me...at a university you hate doing a course that isn't for you despite what you thought on the many open days.
If you're unsure, take a year out. You can go to university at any time - there's a 24 year old on my course and I don't think of him as someone who's coming later on. Hell, there's a 38 year old on my course and I don't think of him any differently.
You need to find out what you want to do, the oh so glamorous life of university will come later.

[Billton]

Gap Year!!!

[Craghyrax]

(Original post by StevenKnott)
Bonjour all,

I feel as if I'm in a bit of a pickle!
Since I can remember I've wanted to go to University; however, now the time has come to start seriously thinking about it, I'm ever so worried I'm choosing to go for the wrong reasons.
As of yet, I had no idea what career I want to pursue.
I kinda feel as I want to go to Uni because it's the first steps of becoming an independent adult, it's a life changing expirence, and broadens your views of life and every day things, plus making great friends and what not.
Of course, the main and most important reason for going to Uni is to get a degree of which will help you to pursue a career!
However, as I said earlier, I don't have a clue what I want to do nor what course I want to study.
With that in mind, am I really choosing to go to Uni for the right reasons?

You're overanalysing this. Its ok to be overly analytical, but you're worrying needlessly.
A substantial number of students have no idea what to do with their lives when nearing the end of their undergraduate degrees, nevermind before even starting one! If you did go in with a particular idea of what you wanted to do in life its just as likely you'd entirely change your mind by the end of the course.

Just go to University. Pick some course that you're actually going to enjoy and be good at, and then start researching career options with the help of your Uni career service and organise internships and things so you can figure it out.

The only time I'd suggest that someone should rethink going to University is if they're doing it out of pressure or obligation, and actually there heart's not in it. If you think you might be someone who really struggles to make yourself work when you need to and self motivate, then you need to reconsider whether you'll be happy trying to do a degree. But in honesty this is only true for the minority and most people are fine.