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Well, I'm 21 years old, I've been in and out of awful, petty little jobs for a good few years now, and I've come to a crossroads in my life. Having been depressed recently, I've decided I need to change my life, a lot, in order to develop any kind of self-respect. Long story short, I ended school with no qualifications, went to college and got:
Well, I tried for years. I started going for graphics design jobs - something I'd done since I was 13 (editing FIFA games and later on PES games). I had no qualifications in it, but it was my dream job, apart from one which I always discounted and will mention shortly. I found ONE place who would have me and train me up, and they expected me to work with chemicals that burned the skin right off your hands, which they didn't tell me until I'd started the job. Sorry, I'm desperate for work and everything, but no.
Then I started looking for anything on computers. Every job I applied for I was instantly rejected for because of a "lack of experience", and the ones I did get interviews for I didn't get because of a lack of experience and Uni stories to speak of.
Finally, I was applying for jobs at petrol stations, and now I'm at the point where the guys at the JobCentre look at me and think "he's not after a job, he's just a scrounger", and it's the most dirty, depressing feeling in the world, and I've officially had enough.
There's been five jobs I've always wanted to do but never considered seriously because of a lack of talent (I can fix PCs no problem, but with no previous experience or Uni stuff I'm dead in the water). They are, in no particular order: graphics designer, teacher, policeman, football manager, and journalist. I'm facing the fact that I'm going to have to go back to college, but I now believe that to get ANY kind of decent job, I'm going to have to go to Uni. Not only can I not afford that, but the idea TERRIFIES me. I'm a very anti-social person, I don't seem to get along with most people. I don't see much joy in getting drunk and puking, or taking drugs, or taking so much work home that I don't have time to crap. And so... I really have no fucking clue what to do.
Graphics designer I don't think I'm anywhere near talented enough to do, teacher would involve Uni, policeman you need to be fit for, football manager (my biggest ambition since before I can remember) is just a completely impossible aim obviously (as much as I believe I'm tactically sound, you really need to be an ex-player for a start, and everything else), and journalist, again, would require me to go to Uni.
I have no frigging idea what to do, what I'm going to do with my life or anything. Any advice, at ALL, would be appreciated. Even stories you can share of a similar situation would give me hope. I realise I'm going to get the piss royally ripped out of me for starting such a thread ("why are you asking all this on a football forum" and "you want to be a WHAT"), but thank you for reading however much you managed to read.
- National Diploma in Computing
- ECDL
- GNVQ ICT Intermediate (with merit)
- Key Skills Information Technology (level 2)
- Key Skills English (level 2)
- Key Skills Maths (level 2)
- Key Skills Communications (level 2)
- GCSE English (C)
- GCSE Maths (C)
Well, I tried for years. I started going for graphics design jobs - something I'd done since I was 13 (editing FIFA games and later on PES games). I had no qualifications in it, but it was my dream job, apart from one which I always discounted and will mention shortly. I found ONE place who would have me and train me up, and they expected me to work with chemicals that burned the skin right off your hands, which they didn't tell me until I'd started the job. Sorry, I'm desperate for work and everything, but no.
Then I started looking for anything on computers. Every job I applied for I was instantly rejected for because of a "lack of experience", and the ones I did get interviews for I didn't get because of a lack of experience and Uni stories to speak of.
Finally, I was applying for jobs at petrol stations, and now I'm at the point where the guys at the JobCentre look at me and think "he's not after a job, he's just a scrounger", and it's the most dirty, depressing feeling in the world, and I've officially had enough.
There's been five jobs I've always wanted to do but never considered seriously because of a lack of talent (I can fix PCs no problem, but with no previous experience or Uni stuff I'm dead in the water). They are, in no particular order: graphics designer, teacher, policeman, football manager, and journalist. I'm facing the fact that I'm going to have to go back to college, but I now believe that to get ANY kind of decent job, I'm going to have to go to Uni. Not only can I not afford that, but the idea TERRIFIES me. I'm a very anti-social person, I don't seem to get along with most people. I don't see much joy in getting drunk and puking, or taking drugs, or taking so much work home that I don't have time to crap. And so... I really have no fucking clue what to do.
Graphics designer I don't think I'm anywhere near talented enough to do, teacher would involve Uni, policeman you need to be fit for, football manager (my biggest ambition since before I can remember) is just a completely impossible aim obviously (as much as I believe I'm tactically sound, you really need to be an ex-player for a start, and everything else), and journalist, again, would require me to go to Uni.
I have no frigging idea what to do, what I'm going to do with my life or anything. Any advice, at ALL, would be appreciated. Even stories you can share of a similar situation would give me hope. I realise I'm going to get the piss royally ripped out of me for starting such a thread ("why are you asking all this on a football forum" and "you want to be a WHAT"), but thank you for reading however much you managed to read.
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