I’m so worried I’m picking the wrong course for University

I’m in Year 13 currently and my predicted grades are A*AA. At the moment I’m planning on studying Geography at the University of Lancaster (ABB) next year, but I’m really worried I’m making a mistake. I loved the campus and the course talk when I went round, but I absolutely adore the theatre, particularly musicals, so initially I was considering doing a degree in that realm, e.g Stage Management or Theatre Tech, but I swayed because I know geography will probably give me much better job opportunities and pay eventually, whereas jobs in the theatre are far less secure. I also have very little experience; I am working backstage on my schools musical this year, but regardless of how much I’ve enjoyed it I know it would be an enormous risk to pick my degree based on this one bit of experience. However, I’m already horribly aware that I’ve wasted a huge amount of my teen years due to social anxiety and a lack of confidence; in reality I wanted to join my school backstage team from Year 8 but I was far too scared, and after that I was in a fairly toxic friend group for several years who would have judged me, and sadly maintaining my status within that group was more important to me throughout the next few years. Now I’m in Yr 13 I’m looking back at all the opportunities, friend groups and opportunities I missed out on because of this, and I really don’t want to go down a path I think or have convinced myself will be good for me, but isn’t what I truly want to do and have regrets I’ll never be able to undo. But on the other hand I don’t want to take the risk, hate the course and waste all that money when I could have done a far more academic course with better job prospects. This was a bit of a ramble so I’m sorry about that, but any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

I’m in Year 13 currently and my predicted grades are A*AA. At the moment I’m planning on studying Geography at the University of Lancaster (ABB) next year, but I’m really worried I’m making a mistake. I loved the campus and the course talk when I went round, but I absolutely adore the theatre, particularly musicals, so initially I was considering doing a degree in that realm, e.g Stage Management or Theatre Tech, but I swayed because I know geography will probably give me much better job opportunities and pay eventually, whereas jobs in the theatre are far less secure. I also have very little experience; I am working backstage on my schools musical this year, but regardless of how much I’ve enjoyed it I know it would be an enormous risk to pick my degree based on this one bit of experience. However, I’m already horribly aware that I’ve wasted a huge amount of my teen years due to social anxiety and a lack of confidence; in reality I wanted to join my school backstage team from Year 8 but I was far too scared, and after that I was in a fairly toxic friend group for several years who would have judged me, and sadly maintaining my status within that group was more important to me throughout the next few years. Now I’m in Yr 13 I’m looking back at all the opportunities, friend groups and opportunities I missed out on because of this, and I really don’t want to go down a path I think or have convinced myself will be good for me, but isn’t what I truly want to do and have regrets I’ll never be able to undo. But on the other hand I don’t want to take the risk, hate the course and waste all that money when I could have done a far more academic course with better job prospects. This was a bit of a ramble so I’m sorry about that, but any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

I’m in Year 13 currently and my predicted grades are A*AA. At the moment I’m planning on studying Geography at the University of Lancaster (ABB) next year, but I’m really worried I’m making a mistake. I loved the campus and the course talk when I went round, but I absolutely adore the theatre, particularly musicals, so initially I was considering doing a degree in that realm, e.g Stage Management or Theatre Tech, but I swayed because I know geography will probably give me much better job opportunities and pay eventually, whereas jobs in the theatre are far less secure. I also have very little experience; I am working backstage on my schools musical this year, but regardless of how much I’ve enjoyed it I know it would be an enormous risk to pick my degree based on this one bit of experience. However, I’m already horribly aware that I’ve wasted a huge amount of my teen years due to social anxiety and a lack of confidence; in reality I wanted to join my school backstage team from Year 8 but I was far too scared, and after that I was in a fairly toxic friend group for several years who would have judged me, and sadly maintaining my status within that group was more important to me throughout the next few years. Now I’m in Yr 13 I’m looking back at all the opportunities, friend groups and opportunities I missed out on because of this, and I really don’t want to go down a path I think or have convinced myself will be good for me, but isn’t what I truly want to do and have regrets I’ll never be able to undo. But on the other hand I don’t want to take the risk, hate the course and waste all that money when I could have done a far more academic course with better job prospects. This was a bit of a ramble so I’m sorry about that, but any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

I’m in Year 13 currently and my predicted grades are A*AA. At the moment I’m planning on studying Geography at the University of Lancaster (ABB) next year, but I’m really worried I’m making a mistake. I loved the campus and the course talk when I went round, but I absolutely adore the theatre, particularly musicals, so initially I was considering doing a degree in that realm, e.g Stage Management or Theatre Tech, but I swayed because I know geography will probably give me much better job opportunities and pay eventually, whereas jobs in the theatre are far less secure. I also have very little experience; I am working backstage on my schools musical this year, but regardless of how much I’ve enjoyed it I know it would be an enormous risk to pick my degree based on this one bit of experience. However, I’m already horribly aware that I’ve wasted a huge amount of my teen years due to social anxiety and a lack of confidence; in reality I wanted to join my school backstage team from Year 8 but I was far too scared, and after that I was in a fairly toxic friend group for several years who would have judged me, and sadly maintaining my status within that group was more important to me throughout the next few years. Now I’m in Yr 13 I’m looking back at all the opportunities, friend groups and opportunities I missed out on because of this, and I really don’t want to go down a path I think or have convinced myself will be good for me, but isn’t what I truly want to do and have regrets I’ll never be able to undo. But on the other hand I don’t want to take the risk, hate the course and waste all that money when I could have done a far more academic course with better job prospects. This was a bit of a ramble so I’m sorry about that, but any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you!