[Help] Moving to England

[cwspellowe]

^this man speaks a lot of sense! The schools couldnt give a shit about the students. All they care about is their figures and how many students they send off to college and uni.

Presactly.

My school told me I should be a doctor. I wish i'd pursued other options now as I wasted my time at Uni, dropped out when I realised I wasn't interested and regret not looking into modern apprenticeships in a field I was really interested in.

Yes wages would have been crap, but I could have stayed with my parents, had at least a bit of money coming in, learned a LOT in the process, and had a guaranteed job at the end of it. Instead I spent two years at uni, racked up £6k's worth of student loan debt, another £2k or so of credit card/overdraft debt, and learned nothing that I now find useful in life. And the best bit is i'm now paying £60 a month off a student loan that I didn't even really need, just wasted. Oh and had to work part time to pay £300 a month rent in student accommodation when I could have spent 2-3 years living with parents studying an MA.

But yes, schools like figures. Me going to Uni looked good for them. Me going into employment was never an option to them so I only found out about MA's when I was about 22, at which age it's nearly impossible to get on one.

Uni was the biggest mistake I ever made.