Hii everyone! I'm Akito, a bit about me: I'm currently in Year 11 and I take triple science, maths, english lit and language, history, psychology, latin, spanish and RS at GCSE. For a while now (since year 8?) I really wanted to be a counsellor (helping people I think is something I think I'd enjoy as a job) so I knew I had to do a level psychology (I know you don't always need it at a level for a degree but a lot of top universities like Oxbridge require psychology a level). But I always had a feeling in the back of my head that a job like that would burn me out quickly. I don't exactly work very well under pressure, and yeah it's quite easy to make me cry (not very professional for a counsellor now is it).
Alongside this, I've always loved the humanities subjects (I adore English and History right now) and when I was a kid I always really found history interesting, so my other career options were being an English teacher or some sort of archaeologist/ museum curator. I don't know what it is, but I just know I would absolutely love having a job like that: writing essays and just being able to talk and teach others about something interesting sounds so fun sorry anyways. But obviously in this economy and with the way inflation is going, jobs in archaeology or museum curation will not pay my bills and it's not exactly a stable job (to be honest I had never thought about income whenever I thought about careers because the one thing I cared about was if I would actually be passionate and enjoy what I'm doing, it is my job after all).
So because of that, I have no clue what to put down for my A-levels. Going into counselling would probably be the safe option; it's well paid and it's not like I hate psychology and I'm doing well in it currently. But history, english and philosophy are subjects I love so so much and have so much passion for (and they're the subjects I'm getting the highest grades in right now) and I'm so worried that I'm making a mistake and condemning myself to years of having no money at all.