So I’m currently one year into a three year creative writing uni course (living at home to save money) and I’m pretty miserable here. I don’t really get on with anyone as the one girl I got on with dropped out (my friends don’t go uni), the schedule of my classes makes finding a job so difficult and I’m just not enjoying the course. I honestly dread going in and the last few months I’ve been feeling pretty low. I did the course as I enjoy writing but since being here it’s killed my passion, and there’s not many jobs going in the industry/it’s too competitive.
I really want to drop out and go into work full time as I’ve done research into Estate Agency and that seems like a career that resonates with me. Plus I want to be able to fund my own lifestyle properly and start saving- I live at home and since having to quit my other job I’m now only doing weekends at a pub and barley make enough to get by.
The only thing keeping me at Univeristy is my parents. I never wanted to go then randomly changed my mind after college, and they’ve been excited about it ever since as they never went themselves. I’ve tried telling them I want to leave and whilst they said it’s my choice they basically guilt trip me and go all quiet, it just upsets me so I’ve given up. I tried telling my mum again today that in the holidays I was going to work part time at an estate agency and if I liked it I was going to quit university, but again I got radio silence. Am I making the right decision? Is it worth just sticking around to get the degree?