Leaving School

Thats a good idea, moonshine ! Sadly i haven't really seen any courses in uni that interest me I've been researching since September of last year and worrying since then cause everyone seemed to see a course on the uni sites that they liked the look of and i didn't!

I never really felt the same as everyone else at school they seemed to be really into english and maths whereas i was just learning it for the sake of it So i didn't really enjoy anything! Not to sound depressing lol!
The only thing i loved was art and with the college course i'd be using it in a way!

To be honest you should just stick at school for the next two years. Try and pick subjects that you will be at least semi-interested in though.

Even if you have your heart-set on doing make-up stuff, you can't really predict how you'll feel in the future and your interests may change. Leaving school at 5th year to me seems like your putting all your eggs in one basket and closing a lot of doors for yourself. Even you if don't plan on going on to Uni or anything, just finishing those 2 years will leave those doors open for you just in case your interests do chance or different circumstances arise.

Two years isn't that much and in my opinion it's worth staying on, getting the good grades and keeping the doors open for yourself, you never know what might happen. You can always just go on to do make-up stuff after those 2 years.

Hmm, that would be a problem as you would need to convey a love for the subject in you UCAS personal statement. I think you should think carefully about the subjects you find interesting and research uni courses. You really don't like any of your subjects?!

No not at all I took Higher Maths, Higher English, Higher Art, Higher Modern Studies & Higher Biology this year and the only one i enjoyed was art because you didn't just learn from a book you could be creative! I think that's the difference with me and my friends and people in my class nobody is really interested in art and creative subjects!

You didn't like Modern Studies at all then? If you did there is loads of courses that are MS related- International Relations; Politics; Law; History uses the same skills. Anyone of those degrees would give you good job prospects in a wide range of careers. If you don't like academic subjects but like art you could do a joint degree with art, or you could do History of Art. Architecture might interest you too.

I think you should talk to your parents about this. You shouldn't feel pressured into doing something you don't want to do, uni isn't for everyone. Have you done any research into make up artistry courses at college?

A lot of people on here think "MUST PASS EXAMS, MUST GO TO UNI OR ILL PHAIL IN LIFE" from what I've observed. It's totally not true. If it makes you happy, and you know you want to go for it, then go for it. You sat your highers anyway, yeah? Do you think you got on well? If you did, atleast you've got your good 5 highers behind you, so you can always apply later for uni.

Seriously, at the end of the day, academia isn't everything. You live once, so do what you want to do. Make-up artists make it pretty good, then you can go into stuff like beauty, hairdressing (sister did that in SVQ, now she's working part time as a hairdresser ) and all sorts of different areas.