Tom
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...What would it be?
I am at a complete loss of what I want to do!! I'm 20, and have 2 National Diplomas at triple distinction level (6 A at A level equivalent), but subject-wise I'm finding them fairly irrelevant. I qualified in Fish Management at Sparsholt and went to work in aquatic retail. This didn't work out, but at least I've learned one thing I don't want to do!! It was a dead-end job on minimum wage, and could never be a long term thing. Locally, retail is the only aquatic option on the cards at the moment.
From there, I went back to college and joined a photography course in the 2nd year as I had already been doing some freelance work for various companies, including PFK. Through doing this course, I realized how irrelevant it was for any real-word photography work unless you plan on specialising in wishy-washy fine art rubbish (might get myself in trouble there!). The benefit though was an awesome trip to NYC. But anyway, I finished that in summer this year, and started again with freelance work. I got quite a bit of work to start with which was good, but I have very low confidence and the work is beginning to dry up. It doesn't help that people try to worm out of paying for anything at the moment, and I'm not able to charge enough to make profit.
Anyway that's the frustrations out of the way so the question is, if you could completely restart everything and do whatever you liked, what career would you pick? Or did you get it right first time? I'm determined to do something I will enjoy!!!
Tom
I am at a complete loss of what I want to do!! I'm 20, and have 2 National Diplomas at triple distinction level (6 A at A level equivalent), but subject-wise I'm finding them fairly irrelevant. I qualified in Fish Management at Sparsholt and went to work in aquatic retail. This didn't work out, but at least I've learned one thing I don't want to do!! It was a dead-end job on minimum wage, and could never be a long term thing. Locally, retail is the only aquatic option on the cards at the moment.
From there, I went back to college and joined a photography course in the 2nd year as I had already been doing some freelance work for various companies, including PFK. Through doing this course, I realized how irrelevant it was for any real-word photography work unless you plan on specialising in wishy-washy fine art rubbish (might get myself in trouble there!). The benefit though was an awesome trip to NYC. But anyway, I finished that in summer this year, and started again with freelance work. I got quite a bit of work to start with which was good, but I have very low confidence and the work is beginning to dry up. It doesn't help that people try to worm out of paying for anything at the moment, and I'm not able to charge enough to make profit.
Anyway that's the frustrations out of the way so the question is, if you could completely restart everything and do whatever you liked, what career would you pick? Or did you get it right first time? I'm determined to do something I will enjoy!!!
Tom