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I have no idea what to do with my life!

I literally have no motivation for the new school year(year 12) and people might say oh you’ve got time and what not but not really actually because the application process and preparation for exams is quite early and vigorous at my sixth form and I’m getting all these big responsibilities being chucked at me and the more I think about it the more I dread the thought of university and being in debt(ugh I hate the thought of debt) and struggling to find a job like omg you can’t really win can you.Furthermore I have not the faintest clue what I want to be in the future,I have no passions,talents,motivations like I have nothing going for me and people keep presenting me with the medicine route(especially my parents and idk want to make them proud) or something in the medical field but honestly I don’t think I’ll like it and I’m really not that smart or anywhere as smart as other people who apply for that so it’s very likely I’ll fall behind very quickly.Also I’m better at essay based but because of my desperation not to be unemployed I’ve veered mostly into the stem direction(picked bio chem and English lit which is my feeble attempt at keeping my law venture alive)and at gcse I wasn’t very strong at stem and now I feel like I’m digging myself a hole.Im quite interested in law but I really.want.a.job. When I finish higher education I keep seeing videos of people doing stuff they enjoy outside of stem and they find it really hard to break into the work sector.but then I’m also conscious that I have to do work experience that applies to the course I’m doing so what do I even do now.

Ugh.
Original post by A!m33
I literally have no motivation for the new school year(year 12) and people might say oh you’ve got time and what not but not really actually because the application process and preparation for exams is quite early and vigorous at my sixth form and I’m getting all these big responsibilities being chucked at me and the more I think about it the more I dread the thought of university and being in debt(ugh I hate the thought of debt) and struggling to find a job like omg you can’t really win can you.Furthermore I have not the faintest clue what I want to be in the future,I have no passions,talents,motivations like I have nothing going for me and people keep presenting me with the medicine route(especially my parents and idk want to make them proud) or something in the medical field but honestly I don’t think I’ll like it and I’m really not that smart or anywhere as smart as other people who apply for that so it’s very likely I’ll fall behind very quickly.Also I’m better at essay based but because of my desperation not to be unemployed I’ve veered mostly into the stem direction(picked bio chem and English lit which is my feeble attempt at keeping my law venture alive)and at gcse I wasn’t very strong at stem and now I feel like I’m digging myself a hole.Im quite interested in law but I really.want.a.job. When I finish higher education I keep seeing videos of people doing stuff they enjoy outside of stem and they find it really hard to break into the work sector.but then I’m also conscious that I have to do work experience that applies to the course I’m doing so what do I even do now.
Ugh.


Girl trust me do not go into medicine if you know you won’t love it!! Do not listen to your parents, my parents were also on my case 24/7 trying to get me to do bio chem and so on in sixth form but I refused as I didn’t enjoy sciences and knew I won’t make the effort to try my best because of that. So maybe try and see what you would actually be interested in and can see yourself doing in the future, and uni wise u don’t have to go uni!!! You can always choose to do an apprenticeship or even a degree apprenticeship ( don’t think there’s one for medicine tho) this way your debt free and earning money, but keep in mind your social life is at risk if you choose to do apprenticeship as it can be a lot from what I heard. Good luck!
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Original post by Anon1y2mo3us
Girl trust me do not go into medicine if you know you won’t love it!! Do not listen to your parents, my parents were also on my case 24/7 trying to get me to do bio chem and so on in sixth form but I refused as I didn’t enjoy sciences and knew I won’t make the effort to try my best because of that. So maybe try and see what you would actually be interested in and can see yourself doing in the future, and uni wise u don’t have to go uni!!! You can always choose to do an apprenticeship or even a degree apprenticeship ( don’t think there’s one for medicine tho) this way your debt free and earning money, but keep in mind your social life is at risk if you choose to do apprenticeship as it can be a lot from what I heard. Good luck!

Thank you so much for this advice I’ll definitely take a closer look at law related degree apprenticeships!❤️❤️❤️
Hey, its also completely okay to not know what you want to do. I was unsure at the start of year 12 and was quite stressed about it but after doing lots of research I became confident with what I wanted to do!
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There's so many routes into law nowadays that you don't even have to do a law degree specifically, you don't necessarily need specific subjects if you were to be interested in law, but definitely don't go down the medicine route if it isn't where your heart is, my friend picked all her a levels based on medicine and in June realised she wants to do architecture but she hasn't had time to prepare and research architecture, you don't want to be in a similar position it's so stressful, and she hates all her subjects. I wish you luck

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