I only have one semester left but I will explain.
A year before I began University (approximately 4 months before I sent my UCAS application) I told my parents I wanted to do an apprenticeship.
They didn’t know what an apprenticeship was, but whenever I tried to explain to them they didn’t want to hear it and told me to go university instead - which is what I did - I am currently studying Economics.
Since then I have been in countless arguments to my parents about this decision and I often regret not taking this matter in my own hands where I should have just applied for an apprenticeship but I just feared how my parents would have reacted. I often stay up late (even today) and come home just questioning why am I going to university - I just don’t think it’s worth going to a lecture room for 2 hours looking at a presentation based of a textbook when I could have been at a workplace earning whilst also learning to adapt in a workplace and surrounding myself to colleagues who have experience in the field of choice.
Fast forward to now, whilst my father isn’t onboard, my mother realises her mistake and accepts and she recently told me I can drop studies. But the problem is I am in my final year with one semester to go.
Now that my mother said this, I literally have no intention to put in the work and it’s even more sour considering I feel these 3 years I could have spent the time way better. I put in the work in previous years - I took my studies seriously including attending almost every lecture, seminar, staying around a good group of friends who want to achieve good results and are positive minded, doing further work and communicating with my seminar teachers. I wouldn’t consider myself to be a lazy student or someone who does the work for the sake of it.
That’s a bit about me and my position - I highly doubt anyone might be in the same boat as me but please have a read and let me know.