By now you have probably realised that I only return to blogging when I am going through a bad time within my life and feel the need to rant and get it out. That time is now.
As a recent graduate, I have had to face the facts of life after university and all of the crap life throws at you. School/college/University do not prepare you for life at all, I have went through life thinking to myself, 'after this, I will go onto higher education and then I'll find a good job and my life will be set out for me'. Not true.
Throughout University and any course that you choose, there are always statistics telling you "99% of students were in a job a week after graduation", I would love to know where they get their statistics from. For me personally, I have always worked and always wanted to better myself with my education and was always told "if you want a good career, you have to work for it". So after graduation I assumed that with my degree, I would be able to go into the profession that I wanted however, I later found out it is 100% not what you know, more like who you know.
It does not matter if you are the smartest human in the world, you may not get the job that you want, within many industries it is simply all about the contacts you have within the business. Which truly is upsetting.
Within School, it was all about the grades of your GCSE's and what you got, "you won't be hired with E's" they said. But tell me, how many times have you had to show evidence of your GCSE certificates to get the job you want? For me it's 0 times.
We set out through life thinking we must do the best within everything or we will fail. If you don't get into University then you must be "stupid" or "incapable of doing it". NEWS FLASH: This is not true. No matter what you do within life, as long as you are doing what you love, you're doing great.
If someone told me 6 years ago that I did not need to go to University to go into the profession that I want, I wouldn't have gone. I would have applied for an apprenticeship and worked my way up whilst making money and not getting myself into £30,000+ debt, experienced anxiety and stress.
I believe that I would have been happier if I actually did NOT attend University. But unfortunately, I have been stuck within a life of education which I chose to do and yet I am still not happy or proud of myself. To this day, I still have nightmares about being in College which makes me wonder; why did I put myself through it? For what? A piece of paper?
My advice for anyone right now is, do what you want to do. Do not feel like you are not good enough to get a job without a higher qualification. If you want to go to college or university, do it. If you don't well thats fine too. Either way, be proud of yourself because no matter what you choose to do in life, it does not matter if you do not truly believe in yourself.
Ciao for now...
