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I'm just starting my GCSE exams, and without being big headed, I should do well in them. For my mocks I think I got all B's or better, and got an A* for Maths and Chemistry. Most teachers reckon I should get an A in their subject if I revise well. But I'm not really sure why I'm doing the exams. Sure I'll get some kind of grade for subjects, proving I can regurgitate the facts I've been taught, and then I'll be able to go onto further education. But what for?
I have no idea what I want to be or do as far as a career goes. I think something in videogames might be cool, but they're a hobby, a passtime, would they be the same if I spent my working life creating them? Would they still be fun, exciting, interesting? The only other things I would actually like to do is be in some kind of band, which seems unlikely at the moment being stuck on this small Island (the Isle of Wight, not Britain I mean...) or I would love to own a record store. I could just listen to music I love all day, stock stuff I like and what deserves to get heard. Maybe open up a little live venue in a section of the store...
Probably sounds stupid, but I honestly can't think of any kind of job that I would enjoy more than that. But something that made me think was when a teacher yesterday morning was trying to motivate us to do well in exams. He said something like he thought it was a sin to waste your talent. I assume he meant this in the context of exams, but I didn't really think of it like that. I wondered what job I could do. But in the end I couldn't think of anything that I wanted to do. I just went back to thinking about writing some lyrics and me sitting in the run down record store. Would that be a waste? Should I have ambitions of fame and fortune? Should I be thinking about some high paid career?
Maybe I will enter some boring career in the future. Right now I'm happy day dreaming about being in a band and owning a crappy little record store.
I have no idea what I want to be or do as far as a career goes. I think something in videogames might be cool, but they're a hobby, a passtime, would they be the same if I spent my working life creating them? Would they still be fun, exciting, interesting? The only other things I would actually like to do is be in some kind of band, which seems unlikely at the moment being stuck on this small Island (the Isle of Wight, not Britain I mean...) or I would love to own a record store. I could just listen to music I love all day, stock stuff I like and what deserves to get heard. Maybe open up a little live venue in a section of the store...
Probably sounds stupid, but I honestly can't think of any kind of job that I would enjoy more than that. But something that made me think was when a teacher yesterday morning was trying to motivate us to do well in exams. He said something like he thought it was a sin to waste your talent. I assume he meant this in the context of exams, but I didn't really think of it like that. I wondered what job I could do. But in the end I couldn't think of anything that I wanted to do. I just went back to thinking about writing some lyrics and me sitting in the run down record store. Would that be a waste? Should I have ambitions of fame and fortune? Should I be thinking about some high paid career?
Maybe I will enter some boring career in the future. Right now I'm happy day dreaming about being in a band and owning a crappy little record store.
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I'm just starting my GCSE exams, and without being big headed, I should do well in them. For my mocks I think I got all B's or better, and got an A* for Maths and Chemistry. Most teachers reckon I should get an A in their subject if I revise well. But I'm not really sure why I'm doing the exams. Sure I'll get some kind of grade for subjects, proving I can regurgitate the facts I've been taught, and then I'll be able to go onto further education. But what for?
I have no idea what I want to be or do as far as a career goes. I think something in videogames might be cool, but they're a hobby, a passtime, would they be the same if I spent my working life creating them? Would they still be fun, exciting, interesting? The only other things I would actually like to do is be in some kind of band, which seems unlikely at the moment being stuck on this small Island (the Isle of Wight, not Britain I mean...) or I would love to own a record store. I could just listen to music I love all day, stock stuff I like and what deserves to get heard. Maybe open up a little live venue in a section of the store...
Probably sounds stupid, but I honestly can't think of any kind of job that I would enjoy more than that. But something that made me think was when a teacher yesterday morning was trying to motivate us to do well in exams. He said something like he thought it was a sin to waste your talent. I assume he meant this in the context of exams, but I didn't really think of it like that. I wondered what job I could do. But in the end I couldn't think of anything that I wanted to do. I just went back to thinking about writing some lyrics and me sitting in the run down record store. Would that be a waste? Should I have ambitions of fame and fortune? Should I be thinking about some high paid career?
Maybe I will enter some boring career in the future. Right now I'm happy day dreaming about being in a band and owning a crappy little record store.
I have no idea what I want to be or do as far as a career goes. I think something in videogames might be cool, but they're a hobby, a passtime, would they be the same if I spent my working life creating them? Would they still be fun, exciting, interesting? The only other things I would actually like to do is be in some kind of band, which seems unlikely at the moment being stuck on this small Island (the Isle of Wight, not Britain I mean...) or I would love to own a record store. I could just listen to music I love all day, stock stuff I like and what deserves to get heard. Maybe open up a little live venue in a section of the store...
Probably sounds stupid, but I honestly can't think of any kind of job that I would enjoy more than that. But something that made me think was when a teacher yesterday morning was trying to motivate us to do well in exams. He said something like he thought it was a sin to waste your talent. I assume he meant this in the context of exams, but I didn't really think of it like that. I wondered what job I could do. But in the end I couldn't think of anything that I wanted to do. I just went back to thinking about writing some lyrics and me sitting in the run down record store. Would that be a waste? Should I have ambitions of fame and fortune? Should I be thinking about some high paid career?
Maybe I will enter some boring career in the future. Right now I'm happy day dreaming about being in a band and owning a crappy little record store.
Well if your dream is to open a record store then wouldn't it make sense to do some sort of business management course or entrepreneur course so that you have the know-how to be able to do that successfully?
I'm taking Business Studies GCSE exam in a few weeks, and will probably take it for A-level, and may do one of these Young Enterprise thingies at school...
Sibs wrote:
> I'm taking Business Studies GCSE exam in a few weeks, and will
> probably take it for A-level, and may do one of these Young Enterprise
> thingies at school...
Those Young Enterprise things take a lot of time and hard work. Very boring. Just use your brain and get a high paid job, live in a nice house with a nice car, well thats my dream.
> I'm taking Business Studies GCSE exam in a few weeks, and will
> probably take it for A-level, and may do one of these Young Enterprise
> thingies at school...
Those Young Enterprise things take a lot of time and hard work. Very boring. Just use your brain and get a high paid job, live in a nice house with a nice car, well thats my dream.
GCSEs and the Options sytems are stupid. All they do is set you up for a career in the public sector somewhere doing some menial job for 'the man'. Follow your dreams dude! I took physics, IT and economics A-Levels and failed them all because they were so boring and never kept my attention. I was like you - the only thing I was (and still am) interested in was music. I took a music AS Level and an extra year at sixth form and it was just enough to get onto a music tech course at Uni. Now I'm having a wicked time, playing drums and guitars and learning how studios work. The GCSEs and A-Levels that I took had no effect on the course whatsoever. Of course that isn't always the case - it depends what you want to do, but if you want to be in a band or summint, then you could easily fit that in around some sort of full-time work. No amount of education will get you a recording contract - ask Goaty, I think he works somewhere that makes perfume!
Reach for the sky!
Reach for the sky!
He makes Man Milk.
Man. Milk. What a name.
Man. Milk. What a name.
Sibs wrote:
or I would love to own a record
> store. I could just listen to music I love all day, stock stuff I like
> and what deserves to get heard. Maybe open up a little live venue in a
> section of the store...
If you haven't seen it already, go watch High Fidelity, (or even better, read the book). Pay careful attention to the Top 5 Jobs section. Good advice for everyone to be had there.
or I would love to own a record
> store. I could just listen to music I love all day, stock stuff I like
> and what deserves to get heard. Maybe open up a little live venue in a
> section of the store...
If you haven't seen it already, go watch High Fidelity, (or even better, read the book). Pay careful attention to the Top 5 Jobs section. Good advice for everyone to be had there.
Thanks for all the advice, I'll keep it all in mind.
Sibs, don't worry about knowing what you want to do. I'm 21 and three-quarters of my way through a degree in Electronic Engineering. I have no idea how I got onto that course, except that it was always assumed by my parents that I'd go to uni, and I was half interested in electronics.
Don't get me wrong, I['m glad I went to uni, I had no other idea of what to do and I've enjoyed my time there, but I don't know if I want to spend the rest of my life doing it. I don't know what I want to do.
I see people on here like Grix, who wants to get into gaming, Goaty with his band, Monkey_man and his music and stuff. And they all seem to know what they want to do, and they're doing all they can to get there. At least that's how it seems from what they post on here.
Whereas me, I sit at my desk all day (on my placement year at the moment), bored out my face, and all I know is that I don't want to do that for the rest of my life.
Maybe it's differeny in other companies. Maybe I will work in electronics for the rest of my life, and enjoy it. Maybe I won't.
I just hope I realise what I want to do, and soon, becuase I don't think I can handle a desk job at all.
I've got a few possible ideas of jobs. Games reviewer, author, something to do with music - but I can't play an instrument at all. Radio DJ maybe? I'd love to do voices for cartoons, that job would rock.
But I don't know how to get into any of these. And I really don't have the time to find out, at least until my degree is finsihed. There's NO WAY I'm going to drop out of it and waste the last 3 years of my life. The last thing I'm going to be is a failure. Whether I work in the industry or not, I WILL finish my degree, at least that way I'll feel I've achieved something.
So for now, I'll just plod along. Go into work (but only for 6 more weeks), sit at my desk and pretend I care about what they think. Then I'l spend the summer at home, working, revising, getting ready for the final year. Once I've finished that last year, I'll then sit down and decided what to do. Until then, I'm Mr Nine-To-Five.
I've rambled on a bit, but I guess I'm trying to say that you shouldn't worry about not knowing what you want to do. You've got your whole life ahead of you. Don't rush the decision, you don't want to make the wrong one and be stuck for the rest of your life.
Don't get me wrong, I['m glad I went to uni, I had no other idea of what to do and I've enjoyed my time there, but I don't know if I want to spend the rest of my life doing it. I don't know what I want to do.
I see people on here like Grix, who wants to get into gaming, Goaty with his band, Monkey_man and his music and stuff. And they all seem to know what they want to do, and they're doing all they can to get there. At least that's how it seems from what they post on here.
Whereas me, I sit at my desk all day (on my placement year at the moment), bored out my face, and all I know is that I don't want to do that for the rest of my life.
Maybe it's differeny in other companies. Maybe I will work in electronics for the rest of my life, and enjoy it. Maybe I won't.
I just hope I realise what I want to do, and soon, becuase I don't think I can handle a desk job at all.
I've got a few possible ideas of jobs. Games reviewer, author, something to do with music - but I can't play an instrument at all. Radio DJ maybe? I'd love to do voices for cartoons, that job would rock.
But I don't know how to get into any of these. And I really don't have the time to find out, at least until my degree is finsihed. There's NO WAY I'm going to drop out of it and waste the last 3 years of my life. The last thing I'm going to be is a failure. Whether I work in the industry or not, I WILL finish my degree, at least that way I'll feel I've achieved something.
So for now, I'll just plod along. Go into work (but only for 6 more weeks), sit at my desk and pretend I care about what they think. Then I'l spend the summer at home, working, revising, getting ready for the final year. Once I've finished that last year, I'll then sit down and decided what to do. Until then, I'm Mr Nine-To-Five.
I've rambled on a bit, but I guess I'm trying to say that you shouldn't worry about not knowing what you want to do. You've got your whole life ahead of you. Don't rush the decision, you don't want to make the wrong one and be stuck for the rest of your life.
Even though I'm doing a course at Uni that's meant to be a specialist subject, I still don't know what I want to do for a living. Sure, working in a studio would be good, but I'd get jealous of all the bands playing. I think that schools make you choose too soon. Sure the system works, but for people like me who were 'late-bloomers', it sucks rock hard balls. I think I have a rough idea of what I want to do, but with my past experiences at school, it looks like I've been set up for a career as a systems analyst, or something boring like that.
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