8, UK need career advice
07-08-2016, 03:25 PM
First I trained to be an avionics technician in the British Army, which I believed would be conducive to a monetarily rewarding career; as after I had served and got all the engineering qualifications, I would have gotten the opportunity t be employed by a private contractor and be looking to earn a salary of £45,000+
But after the 7-month process of applying for the army and then getting to the assessment centre, I discover that unbeknownst to me I'm colour-blind and thus disqualified from my particular job-choice, and many others.
Now because I was confident I'd get this job I pretty much fucked up my A-levels (equivalent to APs in US), I've got good GCSEs though (equivalent to a high school diploma) but in the UK to get to any university you pretty much need three A-levels with at-least a B grade. I'm only doing two A-levels and should be getting a C in them; if I'm lucky.
Resitting A-levels also isn't feasible as they are pretty expensive, and I'm a broke kid, who lives with my mum where the household income is around £8,000 per annum.
Any idea what direction I should go be going in now? I keep fit and active, dress nicely, talk to girls, have been unemployed since I lost my job bartending, 6 months ago, due the bar getting shut-down. I just feel like I have no prospects atm, which is pretty shitty as I've always had precocious intellect and am feeling pretty depressed, as I feel it's going to waste. And my future is me working in some mundane, menial job for pittance
But after the 7-month process of applying for the army and then getting to the assessment centre, I discover that unbeknownst to me I'm colour-blind and thus disqualified from my particular job-choice, and many others.
Now because I was confident I'd get this job I pretty much fucked up my A-levels (equivalent to APs in US), I've got good GCSEs though (equivalent to a high school diploma) but in the UK to get to any university you pretty much need three A-levels with at-least a B grade. I'm only doing two A-levels and should be getting a C in them; if I'm lucky.
Resitting A-levels also isn't feasible as they are pretty expensive, and I'm a broke kid, who lives with my mum where the household income is around £8,000 per annum.
Any idea what direction I should go be going in now? I keep fit and active, dress nicely, talk to girls, have been unemployed since I lost my job bartending, 6 months ago, due the bar getting shut-down. I just feel like I have no prospects atm, which is pretty shitty as I've always had precocious intellect and am feeling pretty depressed, as I feel it's going to waste. And my future is me working in some mundane, menial job for pittance