Well funny thing actually, I'm scrapping my unconditional place tomorrow at University of Manchester and instead, I am going into the merchant navy. I realised that the biosciences are dead end, high unemployment zone and that it wasn't worth spending 4 years studying in that area of study. My reason to go to university was to develop my employability skills to try and get a job in the pharmaceutical industry in research. Then realised employment chances suck because too many people do it. I'll instead be joining the merchant navy in January as a cadet, have all my training paid for, get proper experience on naval vessels, get a growing training allowance each year and will likely get a job at the end starting off at £27-£30K. To think, I was ignoring this for years and all of my Dad's advice. I got lucky actually because I would have started university last year were it not for invasive surgery so thank you invasive surgery.