What to do after sixth form? Help!

You could get on a school leavers grad program like the one KPMG offers, where you get a degree with them through partner universities, whislt on the job and getting experience.

Are you definitely giving up on uni? I got worse GCSEs than you and I'm off to a Cambridge interview next week, so don't rule out the good universities

Thank you for your reply!

What you mentioned sounds like something I might be interested in, do you know what fields of work those schemes are offered in?

Well I wouldn't say I've completely given up on uni, but I don't think there's a subject that I feel passionately about to do a degree in it I've looked into loads of courses and there's nothing that I really want to do

Thanks for your reply again! If anyone else has anything to add, it would be greatly appreciated

You might find these sites as useful as I have

General advice about different careers and alternatives to uni:
www.notgoingtouni.co.uk
http://www.degreenotrequired.co.uk/
http://icould.com/
http://www.unisnotforme.com/
http://www.ideastap.com/ideasmag/the-knowledge/alternatives-to-university

Opportunities for youth work:
http://www.the-challenge.org/work-with-us/
http://www.vso-ics.org.uk/pages/default.aspx
http://www.ics-uk.org.uk/about/?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=spot300x300banner&utm_campaign=VROct12
https://www.disneyinternationalprograms.com/crp/roles_uk.html

I actually have many more sites saved in my bookmarks. If you let me know a bit more about your interests, what else you might like as a career, then I'll post some more suited to you

Wow wow wow thank you so much for all the useful information! I also think Human Resources looks pretty interesting.. You can tell I really have no clue what I want to do Thank you again!

Hello everyone, I'm currently in year 12 studying Maths, Economics, German and Sociology. I would hope to drop Economics after AS (I'm not really enjoying it compared to my other subjects) but it all depends on the grades I get too. I got 6 A*s and 5 A's at GCSE.

The thing is, I go to a pretty high achieving grammar school, and nearly everyone goes to university. And I've been told that, the way things are going, going to a pretty decent university is a possibility for me (not Oxbridge or anything btw ), and people just presume that I'm going to go.

But I really don't feel like university is for me. I'm not sure why, but I just want to get out of studying and into the 'real world'. Does that make any sense?

Is it mad to consider just going into work after my A-levels? What are the realities for school-leavers for finding work? What sort of level job does a post-Alevel student generally get into?

Another problem is that I don't really have any ideas about what I want to do as a career. I really enjoy Sociology, and find Politics interesting (although my sixth form doesn't offer it so I couldn't take it ) but the thought of studying a subject like that for another 3 years minimum at uni is simply horrible to me!

I'm also quite interested in youth work but have no idea how I'd get into that and what qualifications I would need.

If anyone has any comments/guidance/information on anything I've mentioned above then I'd be extremely grateful! Thank you so much for reading this, sorry it ended up being so long, I'm just not sure what my options are for the future! Thanks!