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No clue about Uni even now.
Just finished all my A levels, but I have no idea what i want to do at university, or where i want to do it.
I guess it is because ultimately I do not know what i want to do as a career. I guess I would want to run my own business in 30 years or so and so just picked business studies as its quite broad, and picked sussex to do this at.
However, the more I think about it, the more I dont want to do business studies. I always pictured myself doing something excitign that I would enjoy at uni, and this is not it.
Looks at the moment as thought Im just going to pick somewhere from the list at clearing and just hope that I'll like it, but how much of a gamble is that.
Like at the bottom of everyones signatures on TSR people have Kingston - law or Brighton - English, and im just like erm......clearing - here i come.
People say, yeah you'll enjoy yourself wherever you go, but surely it would help to do something you want to do, and not something you picked out of a hat.
anyone in a similar situation or got any advice.
I guess it is because ultimately I do not know what i want to do as a career. I guess I would want to run my own business in 30 years or so and so just picked business studies as its quite broad, and picked sussex to do this at.
However, the more I think about it, the more I dont want to do business studies. I always pictured myself doing something excitign that I would enjoy at uni, and this is not it.
Looks at the moment as thought Im just going to pick somewhere from the list at clearing and just hope that I'll like it, but how much of a gamble is that.
Like at the bottom of everyones signatures on TSR people have Kingston - law or Brighton - English, and im just like erm......clearing - here i come.
People say, yeah you'll enjoy yourself wherever you go, but surely it would help to do something you want to do, and not something you picked out of a hat.
anyone in a similar situation or got any advice.
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Maybe you could take a year out instead of picking a random course at a random university, and re-apply next year. You may have more of an idea of what you want to do and what you want out of life after a year of thinking, and kind of re-evaluating everything. I was pretty sure I wanted to do languages but I took a gap year to work and travel and made sure that that was what I wanted to do. I have just finished my 2nd year at uni and am still unsure of what I want to do when I finish my degree. Not sure at all what career path to take. All I know is that I'm glad I took languages because I can use them in quite a range of jobs and because I really enjoy it. I could've chosen something else but I went for languages because languages are my passion. Not because I thought 'I want to do X job, I will do X course'.
That's my experience
That's my experience
The-Lennon
if you dont know what course you want to do..... just pick the best uni for the experience.... if you can afford it go to london and have fun
Thanks for the advice. I spent a week with my brother down in bournemouth and it was brilliant, but the uni isnt very reputable.
I live in London and it is a hole. Its expensive, everyones got attitude you just generally lose that uni feeling.
I agree with snowfalls advice, a year out might help gain some perspective, but do i want to be a year behind?
i think i would rather do the travelling thing after uni.
but say i was just to pick a uni for the experience, what if i decide a year down the line that i want to do law. without a law degree im not going to get very far.
I just dont want to limit myself, an at the same time i want to do something I am going to enjoy.
i also think maybe you should take a year out.
theres no piont in doing a course your not sure you wanna do.
maybe taking a year out might help.
i nearly did that...i was thinking of doing a BA in arts and media but now im gonna do an art and design foundation which means i can study all areas of art so i can find a subject i like to then do as a degree.
theres no piont in doing a course your not sure you wanna do.
maybe taking a year out might help.
i nearly did that...i was thinking of doing a BA in arts and media but now im gonna do an art and design foundation which means i can study all areas of art so i can find a subject i like to then do as a degree.
Everyday i ask myself why i decided to apply for physics. I know its gonna be so hard and im gonna find it boring. Its not "my passion" at all, i was just the best in my class at school so i thought i should.
But I never doubt for one moment that im not gonna meet loads of amazing people and that im not gonna come out of it as a more experienced, intelligent, independant, sociable, mature person. I dunno, try and concentrate on the positives. I cant think of anyone i know who says they dont enjoy uni
But I never doubt for one moment that im not gonna meet loads of amazing people and that im not gonna come out of it as a more experienced, intelligent, independant, sociable, mature person. I dunno, try and concentrate on the positives. I cant think of anyone i know who says they dont enjoy uni
Hi
I'm in a similar situation - I just don't know what I want to do and everyone else seems to. I enjoy doing loads of things but I could never make a living out of them. I do think I want to go to university but I can't help but think that might just be becasue it delays having to make a decision about what to actually do with my life. I may well end up taking a year out but I have no idea what to do in that either and would have to apply through UCAS pretty much as soon as it started, surely? I don't know - I'll proably end up picking one of my options, hating it and trying to transfere to a different course or differnt university and hating that too, becasue that is what I am like.
I'm in a similar situation - I just don't know what I want to do and everyone else seems to. I enjoy doing loads of things but I could never make a living out of them. I do think I want to go to university but I can't help but think that might just be becasue it delays having to make a decision about what to actually do with my life. I may well end up taking a year out but I have no idea what to do in that either and would have to apply through UCAS pretty much as soon as it started, surely? I don't know - I'll proably end up picking one of my options, hating it and trying to transfere to a different course or differnt university and hating that too, becasue that is what I am like.
I know exactly what you mean and thats exactly what I want to avoid.
I wouldnt mind taking a year out, but think I would enjoy it more if I was a bit older and wasnt having to worry about uni.
Im sure Ill have a great time and meet great people and have the time of my life and grow as a person and all that stuff, but i dont want to pick a course that is going to greatly limit me in the future.
for example, If I just pick a business degree for the sake of it, and then in three years i decide I want to be an engineer.
I'll be ****ed.
I wouldnt mind taking a year out, but think I would enjoy it more if I was a bit older and wasnt having to worry about uni.
Im sure Ill have a great time and meet great people and have the time of my life and grow as a person and all that stuff, but i dont want to pick a course that is going to greatly limit me in the future.
for example, If I just pick a business degree for the sake of it, and then in three years i decide I want to be an engineer.
I'll be ****ed.
I know how you feel as well, you're not on your own. I even stayed at college for an extra year and did different extra A-Levels to see if i could find something I really enjoy [and give me time to decide what to do]. I have got a place at Uni but i'm not sure whether i'll be able to hack it for three years [if i get in] cos i don't know if it's what I really wanna do! Never mind, it's never too late to change your mind, you won't know what you love doing until you do it and one day you'll find what you love. [That's profound for me 
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]Im doing business studies at Uni next year, purely because i have no idea what to do as a career. Im not a 'textbook' business studies student and would probably be better working from next year instead of going to Uni but i feel like its what i should be doing as everyone else is doing so. I keep getting told i'll get no-where without a degree, although i disagree i cant help but wonder..
I completely sympathise with you, but there is no right answer- i would feel hypocritical giving advice as im too scared not to go to Uni, but good luck with whatever you do
I completely sympathise with you, but there is no right answer- i would feel hypocritical giving advice as im too scared not to go to Uni, but good luck with whatever you do
Everyone feels like that at some point. I've been having second thoughts about my course, I chose it because it's in line with everything I've wanted to achieve and is what I've been aiming for, but now I just don't think it's going to suit me. I wondered about doing the whole clearing thing or taking a year out, but I really don't think it would help me to decide what to do. So, I'm just going to give my course a go- obviously I chose it for a reason, so I may as well try!
But, if you really are sure that it's NOT what you want to do at all, then either apply through clearing or take a year out. No-one can make that decision for you.
But, if you really are sure that it's NOT what you want to do at all, then either apply through clearing or take a year out. No-one can make that decision for you.
You know, if you find you don't like your course it is possible to switch...
Yeah, it's possible to change course later on down the line if you realise that it's not for you.
I'd like to point out that there are many people taking gap years so you don't have to be worried about being behind in that sense. It's not like anyone will ask you "why are you one year older than the other students?" because it's not unusual and there is a wide age range of people who go to uni. I took a gap year and I can say that about half of my friends are my ages (in the same year at uni) and half are a year below. There are also mature students in all my classes.
Another thing is that unless you want to do something really specific, a degree is a degree in the end and employers will take into account that you are hard worker and stick at things, etc etc from seeing you have spent x number of years at uni. For example, one of my housemates is doing a history degree but has decided that he wants to go into property management or something. So unless you have something you REALLY want to do as a career, I would just pick something you enjoy or something you find interesting and something you will keep up for 3 or more years.
I'd like to point out that there are many people taking gap years so you don't have to be worried about being behind in that sense. It's not like anyone will ask you "why are you one year older than the other students?" because it's not unusual and there is a wide age range of people who go to uni. I took a gap year and I can say that about half of my friends are my ages (in the same year at uni) and half are a year below. There are also mature students in all my classes.
Another thing is that unless you want to do something really specific, a degree is a degree in the end and employers will take into account that you are hard worker and stick at things, etc etc from seeing you have spent x number of years at uni. For example, one of my housemates is doing a history degree but has decided that he wants to go into property management or something. So unless you have something you REALLY want to do as a career, I would just pick something you enjoy or something you find interesting and something you will keep up for 3 or more years.
kirstinx
You want to own a business in 30 or so years, but what type of business?
I havent got a clue.
I guess having your own business grants freedom and opportunity which i guess is the ultimate goal.
One thing I have always wanted to do is join the Royal Marines. It would be the perfect challenge for me and something I know I would love. Problem is the money isnt good enough and it would mean being away from my girlfriend for too much of the year. As well as that, with wars like Iraq and Afghanistan, who knows what you could be fighting for next.
There is just so many things I like doing, but very few I see as a feesible career, and I feel like i should be doing someting relative at uni.
Snowfall
I would just pick something you enjoy or something you find interesting and something you will keep up for 3 or more years.
Problem is I dont know what I find interesting, or what I enjoy. I mean I enjoy lots of things, but the though of studying them for three years?
I dunno.
You're not the only one - I spoke to a load of people yesterday and most are having second thoughts about what to do at uni.
I'm totally unsure too, but what I'm doing is researching other courses I might be interested in and the sort of grades I need for them and that way when I get my results (probably result in clearing) I can think about what to do more easily and won't have rushed into anything.
Personally I don't see much point in changing course now because you don't know your results yet. Yeah, I know earlier is better than later, but I think now is too early.
and don't worry, I have no ****ing clue what I want to do either. I'm down for possibly the most pointless course ever, with prospects of teaching or working in a museum - ergh!
I'm totally unsure too, but what I'm doing is researching other courses I might be interested in and the sort of grades I need for them and that way when I get my results (probably result in clearing) I can think about what to do more easily and won't have rushed into anything.
Personally I don't see much point in changing course now because you don't know your results yet. Yeah, I know earlier is better than later, but I think now is too early.
and don't worry, I have no ****ing clue what I want to do either. I'm down for possibly the most pointless course ever, with prospects of teaching or working in a museum - ergh!
What A Levels are you doing, wouldn't you like to continue one of those? If you are going to run your own business you are more than likely going to hvae to work in that field for someone else before you go and do it, so you know the ins and outs and all the potential problems you are likely to face.
Snowfall
Maybe you could take a year out instead of picking a random course at a random university, and re-apply next year. You may have more of an idea of what you want to do and what you want out of life after a year of thinking, and kind of re-evaluating everything. I was pretty sure I wanted to do languages but I took a gap year to work and travel and made sure that that was what I wanted to do. I have just finished my 2nd year at uni and am still unsure of what I want to do when I finish my degree. Not sure at all what career path to take. All I know is that I'm glad I took languages because I can use them in quite a range of jobs and because I really enjoy it. I could've chosen something else but I went for languages because languages are my passion. Not because I thought 'I want to do X job, I will do X course'.
That's my experience
That's my experience
i know this is a bit irrelevant to this thread, but is a degree in the languages extremely different from a levels? i'll be starting a degree in french and italian this september, and i've always loved the languages and i'd like to teach them, but because i worked so hard throughout the a levels, i just don't feel i could cope with another four years of intense work. i think i'll end up working my socks off and worry rather than enjoy the degree, which is something i don't want to happen!
kirstinx
What A Levels are you doing, wouldn't you like to continue one of those? If you are going to run your own business you are more than likely going to hvae to work in that field for someone else before you go and do it, so you know the ins and outs and all the potential problems you are likely to face.
Yeah your right, but at the same time, if I dont know what business I am ultimately going to aim for, where do I start?
My A Levels are Business Studies, which I find boring, History which I find interesting but pretty much completely useless (backed up by the fact that it has the lowest employment record of degrees) and English. again, pretty boring and relatively useless. Any Ideas?
Thanks for trying to help :-)
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