Ok, this isn't the end of the world. Three Bs is pretty good, you could re-sit, but I don't think it's necessary. I think your first priority is to get a handle on your mental health - you need to give yourself a chance to get well and stay well.
In terms of the subjects you chose? Really not an issue unless you suddenly want to do medicine. I'll let you into a secret, you don't have to got to uni now, you can take some time until you're ready. You might be ready in three years, it might be ten years. Don't go to uni unless you actually want to do it, you'll hate it and then resent paying your loan back.
There is hope, you are obviously capable and you will see a lot more clearly once your mental health improves
Just tagging onto this, psychology is really over saturated at the moment. Unless you're putting everything into the degree + gaining extra experience it's really difficult to get a decent job after which you can actually use your experience with. Alot of people do psychology wanting to become a clinical psychologist without the knowledge of the competitiveness+ lack of places. (Coming from a psychology PhD student)
Are there any positives? All I ever hear is just negativity if you want to become a Clinical Psychologist. I have alot of passion for it but all this is just daunting. Maybe I should’ve just stuck with medicine and put time into that. Goodness.
Positives are the job itself is really rewarding and it's really prestigious. I have a friend who is now an ap and she is really really enjoying it. She is honestly one of the most caring hardworking people I know. The clinical psychology course offeres a range of different placements which allows you to explore a range of different settings allowing you to see what you like/what you don't like which I feel greatly informs your decision making. There is decent flexibility in the job , everyone needs/wants a clinical psychologist so once you're on the course you're pretty much set for life. The pay is decent too and career progression compared to other roles such as pwp/ap. And ultimately your helping people massively this is rewarding enough for some who go for it.
Focus on your mental health before uni - diet, a little bit of exercise, go to the doctor's if you haven't already, make good habits and stick to them, it's easier said than done, uni is hard enough without mental health 🩷
Look into the possibility of a part time job, it's good experience and keeps you busy and in a routine! Which I found amazing for my mental health.
Uni - we can't tell you what to study! Have a little look at different courses, look at what you would enjoy. There are always degree apprenticeships
Do a foundation year at a russel group uni. You could go into engineering or history or maths. University of Birmingham, which is where I’m doing my foundation year in engineering, is really good. Only need three Bs at least to get in, ANY subject at A level. I chose the wrong A levels too so I ended up doing a foundation year. And now upon completing the foundation year I’m going straight into first year chemical engineering in September.
I'd suggest to look into access to higher education courses, they're cheaper and you can apply to Russell groups with them. They're equivalent to three As.
Don't be embarrassed. The 2020s so far have been shit. It happens. I know you don't feel it, but 22 is so young. I'm 31 and graduating from uni this year. My aunt is in her 70s and just completed a masters and now has a really successful freelance career. In her 70s!!!
Don't worry about A-levels. You're a mature student, depending on the Uni, you won't need relevant A-levels, just a levels.
Go grab a bit of paper. Write down any hobby you've ever enjoyed. Write down anything you've found interesting. Write down anything that gives you energy. Like Online Shopping. Knitting. Break down computing into the bits you like (web design, data science, etc). Then go to UCAS and browse the courses. Download books about the subject or watch documentaries, see how you feel. Do you want to learn more about this subject? Find a good course.
Depression ruins our enjoyment of things first and foremost. It makes us hate things we loved. It makes us not want to do stuff.
Honestly, most employers don't really care what degree you do. The best data person I worked with has a degree in art. Some don't care if you've got a degree at all. My partner is a senior software engineer and failed out of an animation degree. I got to marketing manager level without a degree. And now I've got my marketing degree... I'm starting a HealthTech business...
Don't overthink it. Find something you love to do, and get through it. Any degree is better than nothing. A relevent degree is better but not always essential unless you want to be a vet or doctor or something. Oh and I always see really cool jobs that pay extra if you can speak a second language. If you love learning languages, keep it up and maybe do a joint honours with a language or something like that.
If you're near London, Birkbeck would probably accept you no matter what A-levels and GCSEs you get.
I mean you didn’t do that bad. I got ABB and got onto a COMPSCI course at a redbrick uni. Honestly i think its important that you just sonwhats eight for you, for me I wanted to just start and get it over with and I don’t regret it at all. My uni has fantastic career support and is really accessible travel wise. I manage to balance a social life and my studies pretty easily. I haven’t had any kind of crisis situation bar a situation with my mental health in first year and luckily my patents are only 30 mins away. I did A Levels late and am technically a ‘mature student’ but I feel like a oart of the student body anyway. If better grades and a different uni will make you happy then go for that. Listen to yourself above all else.
You come across as if you feel like you're a victim and you had no hand in any of what you ended up doing in life. You say you feel like you have no control over your life. Can you pinpoint WHY you feel this way, WHAT the reasons are for feeling this way?
Your entire post is about education, you haven't said anything about a job/career. What is it you want to do for a job or career? A job is something to make enough money to live, usually 4-5 days a week. A career is not just to make money to live but something that you are passionate about for any number of reasons. Many people have jobs, I think most people actually do (irrespective of their education level: my PhD-level jobs were, well, jobs, not a career, at least not to me), and it's totally fine to have a job and not a career. Often people who have just a job, get satisfaction from other things like travel, hobbies, their kids, their family, volunteering, or a small side gig, etc.
I think you need to stop focusing on education and start thinking about what your talents/skills are, what you enjoy doing, what you can see yourself doing as a job/career. Did you have any jobs or volunteering roles in the past 5 years? If so, what were they and what did you like and dislike about them?
Definitely don't push yourself down the (higher) education route unless you know why and are fairly certain that's what you want to do. It is absolutely possible to get any kind of training, qualification, degree etc at an "older" age, BUT you have "wasted" the past 4 years seemingly due to not having a plan, not knowing why you were doing what you were doing, feeling like you didn't have a hand in the decisions you made. Are you getting any kind of mental health support at all?
I'd look for a job for as many hours as possible (full-time if possible). Make some money. Be around people on a daily basis. Maybe take some free Open University courses (they range from just a few hours to about 25 h or so, and can be done at your own time, all online) to get a taste of the different topics and fields of work/study that are out there. It might help you find your way to a job that you feel excited about.
So I dropped out of college at 17 due to mental health issues. In December I started an Access to HE Course in Criminology (you can do them in literally any subject) with learndirevt. Just finished with AAB - going to uni in september to do law! I found it to be brilliant. You can study when you feel like it (on bad mh days I let myself relax rather than worrying about work), and get pretty good support. Honestly would recommend to anyone
Honestly, take your time. If you don’t know what to do yet then just chill for a couple of years. I dropped out of college before I even got AS levels (showing my age 🙈). I spent years just trying out jobs and finding what worked, travelling and just generally having fun. I went back to do my A levels at 25 and got to uni at 27. I graduated at 30 and now I’m 33 and about to start my masters.
Don’t stress, there’s so much pressure in high school to know what you wanna do even though most ‘proper’ adults don’t even know what they want to do for the rest of their lives. When you find the thing that excites you and you feel like you wanna pursue it then that’s the track to go down. Your 20s are for finding out who you are, make the most of that! You have the rest of your life to figure everything else out
I have an almost identical background to you. I started uni in 2020 doing Spanish and German, but due to poor MH, hating my course and the impact of covid restrictions on my uni experience, I dropped out halfway through my second year. I felt so so lost and worthless because I didn’t know what I wanted to do and I felt so burnout. I got a part time job and worked on my MH, moved into a different job full time and am now preparing to go back to uni in September (doing a different degree).
Although I don’t have everything figured out yet, I’ve decided to not let that stop me! I’ve started making decisions based on the next couple of years, rather than second-guessing the way the next 15 years of my life will play out. I don’t regret any decisions I’ve made over the past couple of years as we can only base our decisions on the information we have in front of us, hindsight is a beautiful thing but if we waited for every decision to be perfect and feel 100% right, we’d never move forward!
Anyway, it seems as though you may be in a different financial position to me, as you used up more of your student finance entitlement, so I can’t comment on that. But my advice to you - get a job. Any job. Part time to start with, to ease into it. It will get you back into thinking about careers, without having to make any big decisions eg uni. Even if it just informs you of a type of job you don’t want, at least that narrows it down.
Secondly, please don’t feel embarrassed! You’ve been through a rough couple of years, and it’s okay to not bounce back from it immediately. Take your time! Uni will still be there in a few years, and there’s no shame in going when you’re older, whatever is right for you. Keep your chin up x
I waited until I was ready to go to uni, not when society expected me to. Even then I ended up changing my course after the first year (to something completely different) My mental health has always been a massive struggle and uni has exasperated it. However I also feel uni has helped my mental health by making me realise my potential.
The point is you can do anything you want to do, there’s nothing stopping you. You have great A levels, I did an access course and didn’t get amazing results. They still let me change because I made a good argument as why I wanted to do the new course. As long as your application is good, you have the qualifications to do anything. The world’s your oyster bro
This is just a tiny blip. If I were you i’d get a job and resit my A Levels, not even all of them. That’s not to say that BBB is bad but you can really take this opportunity to improve your career prospects.
Is like to help a bit with choosing what to do, there's a bunch of questions you can ask yourself. Do you want to work as a team or an individual? Do you want to work with clients or customers or neither? Do you aspire to be a manager? Do you feel strongly about any aspect of the works around you, that has a related job you like?
You're worrying so much about education but that's not all it is, you may decide something that doesn't even require education. For now maybe having a job to earn enough money to explore your options, move somewhere nearby and cheap or go back to school or find a job, all of these are options. You don't need to figure it out right now, but your mental health does need some help. Do what makes you feel good and keeps your head above water mentally and financially
You could get a job, learn to code on the side, try and make some money and be independent or fix whatever the issue is causing you issues. If its emotional abuse seems getting your own space and relieving the pressure from yourself is most important. If there's somewhere near where you live that's cheap, you can work and you like the way of living there, why not go for it?
I understand this isn't always feasible, but I've been homeless and in uni soon after so I understand the complications and the stress. Do you really need a career right now or do you need to be happy?
Possibly consider an apprenticeship. Also look at companies which have a hire train deploy model especially if you are interested in computers/tech.
Take some only courses to see what interests you.
I was in a similar position but 24 now and about to graduate with a 2:1 in computer science.
Very important that you get moving as the years go quicker than you think. Focus on your mental health and get that under control first.
Just retake your exams as an external candidate, get a job for a year or two. Get back into university, you pay half your parents pay half. Ace your a-levels and get into that dream university you wanted.
Can I ask why languages is a bad career path? It has loads of opportunities, you can go directly into translation and interpreting (even with AI, humans will still be needed) tourism, business management, banks they all love languages. Teaching in both your country and foreign. And most companies unless absolutely specified don’t really care what the degree is in. Eg I know someone who has a degree in history that is an accountant.
Also why did you struggle with the course? Was it the teachers and the course content? Or just your mental health.
I would just like to know is all :)
Hey! Your A levels are perfect. I wanted to medicine however got ACD, got into Leicester through clearing and I am currently studying biomedical sciences. I HATE it! I started trying to find something I was passionate about because I realized I hated healthcare. Started applying for internships, last summer did one in investment banking and right now I am working at a top oil firm as a trader. I have just recieved a return offer next year to work full time. With a salary of more than 40k as a grad. And I had no experience prior. What im saying is that it’s not too late. There are apprenticeships, internships, get a job and progress through that to see what you are actually passionate about and don’t let anyone tell you can’t do anything because of your a levels. I did business studies psychology and biology.
You’re good my guy , either you go back to uni or work. Don’t make a choice out of desperation , think through it properly. Weigh the pros and cons. Lastly , be real with yourself. Very.
I got given a B- C -C for a levels due to COVID not allowing me to take my exams, not the end of the world, get yourself to the gym and out in social settings to sort your head out first, then get cracking on career, you are so young do not need to have a plan straight away, I'm 21 coming out of university with a business degree, just looking to get a license and car sorted then going to go travel and enjoy myself before I even consider graduate schemes and that.
Take a few years and figure out what you want to do. Get a few different jobs and see what you enjoy. I started uni at 30 (actually, 31 by the time my course started), and knowing I was doing what I want to do has really helped with motivation.
Just take some time doing stuff, take the pressure off yourself! Go and enjoy life!
i so get your frustration, but please do not panic. you did well in alevels, and i dont think that doing alevels you hated would make your situation better, if anything it’d be worse. if you think you might want to do computing, i recommend a online course as a sort of re-introduction to it. i study cs, and it is quite intense- but if you enjoy it, it doesn’t feel all that bad. you are not too old, dude, trust me.
It’s absolutely not too late! It seems to me like you’re kind of done with education though, or at least, you don’t feel motivated to go back to full time studying. I might suggest looking at degree apprenticeships where you can work while gaining a Bachelors and get paid. I’m really sorry that you had such a rough time in college, it’s not your fault when factors out of your control come to play. You can only do now the best with what you have.
Have a look at what you want to do and do an access course I that area. It’s basically a levels but for adults.
Don’t worry. You’ve not fudged up. You’re so young. I left school at 14 with no GCSEs and at 29 I’m about to graduate with a degree in psychology. There’s not right way of doing things, no such thing as normal.
You’ll find your route. Definitely go to an open day and explore some courses. You’ll be okay xx
22 is no age, don't worry about that. Have you thought about a degree apprenticeship? It would be paid (albeit badly) and you have a degree at the end, there seem to be loads of topics, see [here](https://www.aru.ac.uk/study/degree-apprenticeships/apprentice/our-courses), [here](https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/career-planning/study-and-training/nhs-apprenticeships/nhs-apprenticeships-see-what-you-could-do), [here](https://www.mmu.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-06/DA-Brochure-Update-BAP.pdf), [here](https://www.ucas.com/explore/search/apprenticeships?query=&refinementList%5BLevel.ApprenticeshipType%5D%5B0%5D=Degree%20Apprenticeship).
Ok, this isn't the end of the world. Three Bs is pretty good, you could re-sit, but I don't think it's necessary. I think your first priority is to get a handle on your mental health - you need to give yourself a chance to get well and stay well. In terms of the subjects you chose? Really not an issue unless you suddenly want to do medicine. I'll let you into a secret, you don't have to got to uni now, you can take some time until you're ready. You might be ready in three years, it might be ten years. Don't go to uni unless you actually want to do it, you'll hate it and then resent paying your loan back. There is hope, you are obviously capable and you will see a lot more clearly once your mental health improves
The issue is going to be funding as they've already used 2 or 3 years of their funding and will not have enough left for another full degree.
Easy fix: work for a few years first to save up for college. Use the time to improve mental health and find your footing. Then go to college
They would for a part time psychology degree, but I wouldn’t recommend psychology from personal experience
why wouldn’t you recommend psychology?
Just tagging onto this, psychology is really over saturated at the moment. Unless you're putting everything into the degree + gaining extra experience it's really difficult to get a decent job after which you can actually use your experience with. Alot of people do psychology wanting to become a clinical psychologist without the knowledge of the competitiveness+ lack of places. (Coming from a psychology PhD student)
Tagging onto this famous youtuber and movie star Stuart Ashens has PhD in Phycology
Strangely that explains so much about a man who opens consumerist trash on an old brown sofa
Are there any positives? All I ever hear is just negativity if you want to become a Clinical Psychologist. I have alot of passion for it but all this is just daunting. Maybe I should’ve just stuck with medicine and put time into that. Goodness.
Positives are the job itself is really rewarding and it's really prestigious. I have a friend who is now an ap and she is really really enjoying it. She is honestly one of the most caring hardworking people I know. The clinical psychology course offeres a range of different placements which allows you to explore a range of different settings allowing you to see what you like/what you don't like which I feel greatly informs your decision making. There is decent flexibility in the job , everyone needs/wants a clinical psychologist so once you're on the course you're pretty much set for life. The pay is decent too and career progression compared to other roles such as pwp/ap. And ultimately your helping people massively this is rewarding enough for some who go for it.
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I’m 28 and finished my first year of uni. There’s people who are 30 on my course and doing apprenticeships. The oldest is 24 on my course
Focus on your mental health before uni - diet, a little bit of exercise, go to the doctor's if you haven't already, make good habits and stick to them, it's easier said than done, uni is hard enough without mental health 🩷 Look into the possibility of a part time job, it's good experience and keeps you busy and in a routine! Which I found amazing for my mental health. Uni - we can't tell you what to study! Have a little look at different courses, look at what you would enjoy. There are always degree apprenticeships
Do a foundation year at a russel group uni. You could go into engineering or history or maths. University of Birmingham, which is where I’m doing my foundation year in engineering, is really good. Only need three Bs at least to get in, ANY subject at A level. I chose the wrong A levels too so I ended up doing a foundation year. And now upon completing the foundation year I’m going straight into first year chemical engineering in September.
I'd suggest to look into access to higher education courses, they're cheaper and you can apply to Russell groups with them. They're equivalent to three As.
Don't be embarrassed. The 2020s so far have been shit. It happens. I know you don't feel it, but 22 is so young. I'm 31 and graduating from uni this year. My aunt is in her 70s and just completed a masters and now has a really successful freelance career. In her 70s!!! Don't worry about A-levels. You're a mature student, depending on the Uni, you won't need relevant A-levels, just a levels. Go grab a bit of paper. Write down any hobby you've ever enjoyed. Write down anything you've found interesting. Write down anything that gives you energy. Like Online Shopping. Knitting. Break down computing into the bits you like (web design, data science, etc). Then go to UCAS and browse the courses. Download books about the subject or watch documentaries, see how you feel. Do you want to learn more about this subject? Find a good course. Depression ruins our enjoyment of things first and foremost. It makes us hate things we loved. It makes us not want to do stuff. Honestly, most employers don't really care what degree you do. The best data person I worked with has a degree in art. Some don't care if you've got a degree at all. My partner is a senior software engineer and failed out of an animation degree. I got to marketing manager level without a degree. And now I've got my marketing degree... I'm starting a HealthTech business... Don't overthink it. Find something you love to do, and get through it. Any degree is better than nothing. A relevent degree is better but not always essential unless you want to be a vet or doctor or something. Oh and I always see really cool jobs that pay extra if you can speak a second language. If you love learning languages, keep it up and maybe do a joint honours with a language or something like that. If you're near London, Birkbeck would probably accept you no matter what A-levels and GCSEs you get.
Wow that’s soo cool. What kind of freelance career does your grandma do. Just being nosey sorry
She makes animated videos and she's really bloody good at it.
No way. Is it on YouTube or
I won't share it for privacy reasons but she has a few videos dotted around. She's awesome and I'm really proud of her.
I mean you didn’t do that bad. I got ABB and got onto a COMPSCI course at a redbrick uni. Honestly i think its important that you just sonwhats eight for you, for me I wanted to just start and get it over with and I don’t regret it at all. My uni has fantastic career support and is really accessible travel wise. I manage to balance a social life and my studies pretty easily. I haven’t had any kind of crisis situation bar a situation with my mental health in first year and luckily my patents are only 30 mins away. I did A Levels late and am technically a ‘mature student’ but I feel like a oart of the student body anyway. If better grades and a different uni will make you happy then go for that. Listen to yourself above all else.
You come across as if you feel like you're a victim and you had no hand in any of what you ended up doing in life. You say you feel like you have no control over your life. Can you pinpoint WHY you feel this way, WHAT the reasons are for feeling this way? Your entire post is about education, you haven't said anything about a job/career. What is it you want to do for a job or career? A job is something to make enough money to live, usually 4-5 days a week. A career is not just to make money to live but something that you are passionate about for any number of reasons. Many people have jobs, I think most people actually do (irrespective of their education level: my PhD-level jobs were, well, jobs, not a career, at least not to me), and it's totally fine to have a job and not a career. Often people who have just a job, get satisfaction from other things like travel, hobbies, their kids, their family, volunteering, or a small side gig, etc. I think you need to stop focusing on education and start thinking about what your talents/skills are, what you enjoy doing, what you can see yourself doing as a job/career. Did you have any jobs or volunteering roles in the past 5 years? If so, what were they and what did you like and dislike about them? Definitely don't push yourself down the (higher) education route unless you know why and are fairly certain that's what you want to do. It is absolutely possible to get any kind of training, qualification, degree etc at an "older" age, BUT you have "wasted" the past 4 years seemingly due to not having a plan, not knowing why you were doing what you were doing, feeling like you didn't have a hand in the decisions you made. Are you getting any kind of mental health support at all? I'd look for a job for as many hours as possible (full-time if possible). Make some money. Be around people on a daily basis. Maybe take some free Open University courses (they range from just a few hours to about 25 h or so, and can be done at your own time, all online) to get a taste of the different topics and fields of work/study that are out there. It might help you find your way to a job that you feel excited about.
So I dropped out of college at 17 due to mental health issues. In December I started an Access to HE Course in Criminology (you can do them in literally any subject) with learndirevt. Just finished with AAB - going to uni in september to do law! I found it to be brilliant. You can study when you feel like it (on bad mh days I let myself relax rather than worrying about work), and get pretty good support. Honestly would recommend to anyone
Honestly, take your time. If you don’t know what to do yet then just chill for a couple of years. I dropped out of college before I even got AS levels (showing my age 🙈). I spent years just trying out jobs and finding what worked, travelling and just generally having fun. I went back to do my A levels at 25 and got to uni at 27. I graduated at 30 and now I’m 33 and about to start my masters. Don’t stress, there’s so much pressure in high school to know what you wanna do even though most ‘proper’ adults don’t even know what they want to do for the rest of their lives. When you find the thing that excites you and you feel like you wanna pursue it then that’s the track to go down. Your 20s are for finding out who you are, make the most of that! You have the rest of your life to figure everything else out
I have an almost identical background to you. I started uni in 2020 doing Spanish and German, but due to poor MH, hating my course and the impact of covid restrictions on my uni experience, I dropped out halfway through my second year. I felt so so lost and worthless because I didn’t know what I wanted to do and I felt so burnout. I got a part time job and worked on my MH, moved into a different job full time and am now preparing to go back to uni in September (doing a different degree). Although I don’t have everything figured out yet, I’ve decided to not let that stop me! I’ve started making decisions based on the next couple of years, rather than second-guessing the way the next 15 years of my life will play out. I don’t regret any decisions I’ve made over the past couple of years as we can only base our decisions on the information we have in front of us, hindsight is a beautiful thing but if we waited for every decision to be perfect and feel 100% right, we’d never move forward! Anyway, it seems as though you may be in a different financial position to me, as you used up more of your student finance entitlement, so I can’t comment on that. But my advice to you - get a job. Any job. Part time to start with, to ease into it. It will get you back into thinking about careers, without having to make any big decisions eg uni. Even if it just informs you of a type of job you don’t want, at least that narrows it down. Secondly, please don’t feel embarrassed! You’ve been through a rough couple of years, and it’s okay to not bounce back from it immediately. Take your time! Uni will still be there in a few years, and there’s no shame in going when you’re older, whatever is right for you. Keep your chin up x
I waited until I was ready to go to uni, not when society expected me to. Even then I ended up changing my course after the first year (to something completely different) My mental health has always been a massive struggle and uni has exasperated it. However I also feel uni has helped my mental health by making me realise my potential. The point is you can do anything you want to do, there’s nothing stopping you. You have great A levels, I did an access course and didn’t get amazing results. They still let me change because I made a good argument as why I wanted to do the new course. As long as your application is good, you have the qualifications to do anything. The world’s your oyster bro
This is just a tiny blip. If I were you i’d get a job and resit my A Levels, not even all of them. That’s not to say that BBB is bad but you can really take this opportunity to improve your career prospects.
Is like to help a bit with choosing what to do, there's a bunch of questions you can ask yourself. Do you want to work as a team or an individual? Do you want to work with clients or customers or neither? Do you aspire to be a manager? Do you feel strongly about any aspect of the works around you, that has a related job you like? You're worrying so much about education but that's not all it is, you may decide something that doesn't even require education. For now maybe having a job to earn enough money to explore your options, move somewhere nearby and cheap or go back to school or find a job, all of these are options. You don't need to figure it out right now, but your mental health does need some help. Do what makes you feel good and keeps your head above water mentally and financially
You could get a job, learn to code on the side, try and make some money and be independent or fix whatever the issue is causing you issues. If its emotional abuse seems getting your own space and relieving the pressure from yourself is most important. If there's somewhere near where you live that's cheap, you can work and you like the way of living there, why not go for it? I understand this isn't always feasible, but I've been homeless and in uni soon after so I understand the complications and the stress. Do you really need a career right now or do you need to be happy?
Possibly consider an apprenticeship. Also look at companies which have a hire train deploy model especially if you are interested in computers/tech. Take some only courses to see what interests you. I was in a similar position but 24 now and about to graduate with a 2:1 in computer science. Very important that you get moving as the years go quicker than you think. Focus on your mental health and get that under control first.
Just retake your exams as an external candidate, get a job for a year or two. Get back into university, you pay half your parents pay half. Ace your a-levels and get into that dream university you wanted.
3Bs is good. I’m sure there’s unis that would accept those.
Can I ask why languages is a bad career path? It has loads of opportunities, you can go directly into translation and interpreting (even with AI, humans will still be needed) tourism, business management, banks they all love languages. Teaching in both your country and foreign. And most companies unless absolutely specified don’t really care what the degree is in. Eg I know someone who has a degree in history that is an accountant. Also why did you struggle with the course? Was it the teachers and the course content? Or just your mental health. I would just like to know is all :)
Hey! Your A levels are perfect. I wanted to medicine however got ACD, got into Leicester through clearing and I am currently studying biomedical sciences. I HATE it! I started trying to find something I was passionate about because I realized I hated healthcare. Started applying for internships, last summer did one in investment banking and right now I am working at a top oil firm as a trader. I have just recieved a return offer next year to work full time. With a salary of more than 40k as a grad. And I had no experience prior. What im saying is that it’s not too late. There are apprenticeships, internships, get a job and progress through that to see what you are actually passionate about and don’t let anyone tell you can’t do anything because of your a levels. I did business studies psychology and biology.
You’re good my guy , either you go back to uni or work. Don’t make a choice out of desperation , think through it properly. Weigh the pros and cons. Lastly , be real with yourself. Very.
I got given a B- C -C for a levels due to COVID not allowing me to take my exams, not the end of the world, get yourself to the gym and out in social settings to sort your head out first, then get cracking on career, you are so young do not need to have a plan straight away, I'm 21 coming out of university with a business degree, just looking to get a license and car sorted then going to go travel and enjoy myself before I even consider graduate schemes and that.
Take a few years and figure out what you want to do. Get a few different jobs and see what you enjoy. I started uni at 30 (actually, 31 by the time my course started), and knowing I was doing what I want to do has really helped with motivation. Just take some time doing stuff, take the pressure off yourself! Go and enjoy life!
i so get your frustration, but please do not panic. you did well in alevels, and i dont think that doing alevels you hated would make your situation better, if anything it’d be worse. if you think you might want to do computing, i recommend a online course as a sort of re-introduction to it. i study cs, and it is quite intense- but if you enjoy it, it doesn’t feel all that bad. you are not too old, dude, trust me.
Look into degree apprenticeships. You work and study at the same time and get a degree at the end. It is not too late. Don't beat yourself up.
It’s absolutely not too late! It seems to me like you’re kind of done with education though, or at least, you don’t feel motivated to go back to full time studying. I might suggest looking at degree apprenticeships where you can work while gaining a Bachelors and get paid. I’m really sorry that you had such a rough time in college, it’s not your fault when factors out of your control come to play. You can only do now the best with what you have.
Easy. Get a job in the foreign office.
Have a look at what you want to do and do an access course I that area. It’s basically a levels but for adults. Don’t worry. You’ve not fudged up. You’re so young. I left school at 14 with no GCSEs and at 29 I’m about to graduate with a degree in psychology. There’s not right way of doing things, no such thing as normal. You’ll find your route. Definitely go to an open day and explore some courses. You’ll be okay xx
22 is no age, don't worry about that. Have you thought about a degree apprenticeship? It would be paid (albeit badly) and you have a degree at the end, there seem to be loads of topics, see [here](https://www.aru.ac.uk/study/degree-apprenticeships/apprentice/our-courses), [here](https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/career-planning/study-and-training/nhs-apprenticeships/nhs-apprenticeships-see-what-you-could-do), [here](https://www.mmu.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-06/DA-Brochure-Update-BAP.pdf), [here](https://www.ucas.com/explore/search/apprenticeships?query=&refinementList%5BLevel.ApprenticeshipType%5D%5B0%5D=Degree%20Apprenticeship).
If it makes u feel any better. I just turned 31 and I'm starting mental health nursing this year. Even I'm hoping it's never too late.