dya recon its worth it? or should i just get a job?

dya recon its worth it? or should i just get a job?

I left school at 16 mate with average qualifications to join the Army, the problem was when I left I had to then spend the best part of three years working through the day and studying at night to get qualified for what I do!

I don't regret joining the army but I do regret not spending more time and getting qualifications behind me first!

Its easier to study now then it is when you are in your thirties with kids to feed and a mortgage to pay! Just a thought pal!

yeh it makes sense,i left school in like year 9 and didnt sit my exams and thought everything would be ok,now im nearly 17 and thinking **** what the **** have i done!

i might aswell get them done sooner than later,im sure when i have done them aswell it will be alot easier for me to get a job for the rest of my life so its probably worth it

yeh it makes sense,i left school in like year 9 and didnt sit my exams and thought everything would be ok,now im nearly 17 and thinking **** what the **** have i done!

i might aswell get them done sooner than later,im sure when i have done them aswell it will be alot easier for me to get a job for the rest of my life so its probably worth it

I employ many college and school leavers, if they dont have a basic level of qulaifications on their CV then we dont even read any further, sad but true so....

I think its only a year in college Azza. GCSEs are a good foundation. What kind of job would you get if you just got one now

i wanna do something to do with boxing and im pretty good at english and creative writing so i would prolli be a boxing journalist which would be much easier with an english gcse

as for now,i would take nearly any job on offer

Also, there are college courses such as carpentry and joinery, brickwork, painting and decorating, plumbing, that you dont need GCSEs

i did a brick laying course once,i completed half of it and got bored as **** of it and quit,its the most boring thing ever,its like 18 + lego

i know it brings in alot of money but i would rather do something i enjoy for **** pay than something i hate for good pay,it was too repetitive

how much money does bricklaying bring?

Im doing a BTEC national dimploma in Media hopefully.
Ive applied for the first diploma aswell incase I **** up my GCSEs.

The course covers lots of things including journalism and "printed media".

Basically you do core modules. Then you pick 2 out of the 3 options. Moving image. Audio. And printed media.

You need 5Gcses A*-C for this. But if you get the national diploma then you can go on to do it.

To do the national diploma you do need some kind of qualifications. like 4 GCSE grade d-g. or some stuff like that

if you fancied doing the lower one and going onto the higher one you can ask them and show them enthusiasm and say how much you want to be a journalist, and show them past test scores and stuff like that and maybe theyll let you on I dont know

Journalism is very competitive these days, you would also probably need a degree in that to stand a chance. As someone else said, learn a trade, even if you didnt enjoy bricklaying, theres still plumbing or carpentry which arent as repetitive. Theres always going to be a high demand for these jobs and pay will probably match those who come out of university.

Do it, there is no 2 ways about it. You need GCSE's as a bare minimum, period. If you can then get some A-levels behind you, you are looking at a decent CV and definetly becoming someone who is employable easily.

Stay in school, then go to uni, then go to uni overseas, then tour Europe, then go home, marry a ditz and live happily ever after.

Azza, like everyone says, it really helps to have qualifications today. Regardless of the skills you might develop along the way, they're a really important signal to employers (see what MickyH says).

Studies show that each year of education adds up to 10% to your lifetime wage. Thats a pretty good rate of return methinks!

Not everyone is suited to education at higher levels, but I would strongly suggest you could do GCSEs and beyond, its not like they're just aimed at boffins - like others have said there's plenty of diversity.

Might aswell. It's harder trying to come up in todays society from nothing. I'm gonna go back to college next year and hopefully do a-levels, but saying that I'm a lot smarter than you.

You reckon Naz? Intelligence manifests itself in many ways, so even if someone doesn't achieve academic feats they can have the brains to succeed in their own business, or the intelligence to succeed in relationships with friends and family, or the intelligence to budget well and save for their future.

In an academic sense I'm well set but I meet people all of the time who are very intelligent in their own way. Guys and gals I used to work with at MaccyDs dropped out at 16 but some were so sharp it was unbelievable.

But you're right about one thing for sure; the reward for qualifications in today's labour market is so large that it pays to go as far as you reasonably can in education. The pay off is pretty big, plus you might even get paid to take a year off work and study some more at the taxpayers expense, like me!

You reckon Naz? Intelligence manifests itself in many ways, so even if someone doesn't achieve academic feats they can have the brains to succeed in their own business, or the intelligence to succeed in relationships with friends and family, or the intelligence to budget well and save for their future.

In an academic sense I'm well set but I meet people all of the time who are very intelligent in their own way. Guys and gals I used to work with at MaccyDs dropped out at 16 but some were so sharp it was unbelievable.

But you're right about one thing for sure; the reward for qualifications in today's labour market is so large that it pays to go as far as you reasonably can in education. The pay off is pretty big, plus you might even get paid to take a year off work and study some more at the taxpayers expense, like me!

I was talking about aademic intelligence, but my intelligence also excells in general life skills aswell.

Good for you, just don't f*ck it up before you've achieved anything other than gaining notoriety on a boxing forum. If you're smart, and you live in London you're well set. get yourself off to UCL or LSE after A-levels, then spank a job in the city whilst getting your mum to wash your pants for you. By the time you're 30 you'll be minted, with a few flats rented out to poor students and enough money coming in to buy and maintain an above average Thai bride.

Yeah maybe but I'm young and I have time. I dont wanna waste years of being wrapped up and worried about a career that I forget to have fun. Dont Live to work, Work to live.

Yep, take a year out, travel a bit either before or after uni (after is probably better if you've got the cahunas for the extra debt). thats the only regret I have, I was on a conveyor belt, now I'm 24 and I've travelled a bit, but I've not done the whole far east, Australia and S.America thing as a single bloke.

Now that would have been wicked!