I'm kinda depressed about my age/education

Hi there

I'll be 25 this summer and I haven't applied for Bachelor's Degree yet. I have finished Secondary School when I was 20 and somehow I thought that HE wasn't so important at that time, so I started my working path. Now, almost 5 years later, I understand how HE could have changed my life if I wasn't so stupid at that time. Even worse, I'd like to study something that have no relationship with my previous work experience, so basically I just thrown away 5 years of my life. If I just continued my studies after secondary school, right now I could be a well respected manager. I want to apply for undergraduate course in UK (3 years) but as an international student without adequate entrance requirements I have to take Foundation Course first (1 Year), so basically I'll be 29 when I'll get my Bachelor's Degree and I won't have any work experience in my field. How can I be relevant with all this guys who at my current age have already started gaining working experience after their Bachelor's Degree?

I wanna cry...

p.s.: listen to your parents

Hi there

I'll be 25 this summer and I haven't applied for Bachelor's Degree yet. I have finished Secondary School when I was 20 and somehow I thought that HE wasn't so important at that time, so I started my working path. Now, almost 5 years later, I understand how HE could have changed my life if I wasn't so stupid at that time. Even worse, I'd like to study something that have no relationship with my previous work experience, so basically I just thrown away 5 years of my life. If I just continued my studies after secondary school, right now I could be a well respected manager. I want to apply for undergraduate course in UK (3 years) but as an international student without adequate entrance requirements I have to take Foundation Course first (1 Year), so basically I'll be 29 when I'll get my Bachelor's Degree and I won't have any work experience in my field. How can I be relevant with all this guys who at my current age have already started gaining working experience after their Bachelor's Degree?

I wanna cry...

p.s.: listen to your parents

Hi

I'm curious, why do you advise Access Course over a Foundation one?

Hi

I'm curious, why do you advise Access Course over a Foundation one?

Well Peter84 I have felt exactly the same as you for the last couple of weeks - feeling like I have wasted the last TEN years! But now I have realised that that is completely not true at all, when you have completed your degree not only will you have that but you will also have 5 solid years experince with highly transfferable work skills. When you're 70 it really won't matter that you didn't do it until you were 25, that's plenty of time to get a good career. You would regret it far more not doing it than leaving it a little later. Now is the time to get excited about what lies ahead of you! x

First of all, stop having regrets and be more positive!

I will start my degree in September just before my 26th birthday, so that means when i'll just have finished my masters by my 30th birthday!

This doesn't bother me in the slightest...I did completely waste a few years after flunking college quite badly feeling rather unhappy and going from one awful dead end job to the next, but also did some cool things like going traveling around Asia...

Anyway, point is, you always have time to turn things around, and we are both still young in our mid-20's!

I know so many friends who went to uni at 18/19, picked a course they ended up loathing by the second year, subsequently underachieving and now they have 20 grand worth of debt and wonder why they didn't wait until they knew what they wanted to do rather than rushing into it because it was expected of them by there parents/lecturers at college.

We are, in my opinion, in a much better position because we are older, know ourselves better, and even if you think you've 'wasted' your years after finishing school or college in reality it's ALL a learning curve and it's all experience under your belt...

Good luck! Go to uni!

Living in halls really depends on how social you are. I like my space. My boyfriend was still at uni and in a house share when I moved in with him last September because a student dropped out and a room happened to come up in the house he was in. Now I like my own space, and I like things to be clean. So to be quite honest I have wanted to kill my housemates pretty much since the day I moved in as they are noisy, filthy and completely unhousetrained. However, I know every experience is different and they are not all as bad as this. Also I have high standards so by comparision mine was probably a great house! For me though it's been horrendous and I can't wait to get out. We are moving into our own house June. He is working full time now and I will be self funded so hopefully we can survive. But I've lived in my own place for years, moved out when I was 18 and I'm 35 now so moving in with a bunch of 21 year old student nurses was never going to be easy. I'd never do it again, but I think halls will be a good way for you to get used to sharing your space, and getting used to the student mentality. Then when you go into a houseshare you will already know what to expect and you will probably find it a breath of fresh air. Also you are still comparitively young, so don't panic. Go with it, and think about your budget!