I've recently graduated high-school (like last year) and I went to uni for a little bit, but I ended up leaving first semester due to frustration with my major. I've been looking for jobs/apprenticeships too, but so far no luck. Furthermore, I've enrolled in a vocational course option, but honestly I feel like the course I'm going into will be a let-down in terms of job opportunities. We're in the middle of the year now, and I'm really hoping to actually land on my feet soon. If I don't, I'll likely just have to swallow my pride and go back into uni doing a degree that sucks but pays the bills. In any case I need advice in terms of finding direction, because all my friends have gotten into courses they like or into fulfilling jobs incredibly fast, and I'm getting annoyed at my lack of progress.
country? (is the degree going to be expensive?)what frustrated you about your major?have you worked before?
>>34632582>doing a degree that sucks but pays the billsIn this economy? No such degree any more, op.
>>34632639Australia. Government loans are interest free, and it costs around $3000 AUD per semester.It was a bachelor's in physics. Its incredibly boring and 100% is not worth it in terms of moneyYes. In high school I worked in fast food.
>>34632582>Muh friendsNigger take your fucking time. Firstmost see if you can monetarily afford up to 3 gap years. Go to courses of anything and speak of people about their fates. If you have an interest of yours you should put 100% of yourself into it, and stick to it until you specialize. Don't give a fuck about "Muh job market, muh demand".Modern day is an economy of specialization. Whoever specializes will ALWAYS have a job. Whoever likes his job will be closest to specialize. Whoever hates his job is set to suffer, either from torturing himself in something he hates for his whole life or because he will be jumping from trade to trade and will be forever an unspecialized beginner in them.Take your youth and use it to figure out what you feel best doing, go to any workplace and ask them if you can shadow for a week someone in a position you're interested in. This requires you to get up on your ass and talk to strangers in positions of power, if you can't do as much that's the first fucking thing you have to fix, because it's an essential life skill.
>>34632665yeahnah dont worry about so far in the futurego to uni while your brain is still spongey, care about money laterits not boring its drythe people who wrote the simpsons are mostly stem nerds
>>34632711*change course if you really want but when people ask what you studied, physics is a nice flex
>>34632582Im assuming Australia does vocational aptitude tests for students, what kind of jobs did you score well in? Those are meant to nudge people in your situation into a direction to start exploring. Also youre like what, 18? 19? Take a gap year and get a full time wagie job just to see how shit it is and motivate you to think about what kind of work you find fulfilling
>>34632582At this point in your life the one thing you have more of than anything else is TIME. Do what you're doing - explore your options, try different things, and see where your aptitudes and instincts take you. A couple of years "wasted" in this will prove prifiitable in the long run.
