Afternoon folks
I need help making a decision that will affect the rest of my life, I'm currently a second year Aerospace engineering student but the spark has gone for the subject, I'm dreading going into Uni in the morning as well as graduating and having to go and find a desk job!
An opportunity has arose for me to start on a veterinary medicine course come October, so I suppose the question is thus what the feck should I do?
Tarkan
I would maybe urge a note of caution.
At about exactly the same point through my University degree I was hit by just the same thoughts. I couldn't see the point of what I was doing and questioned why I had chosen the course in the first place. I felt that I should have followed my first instinct, which was to do a course more "land" based at an Agricultural college.
Having decided that a change was required, I made the necessary enquiries. I then sat down for a cup of coffee with the neighbour of my parents, who happened to be a lecturer in psychology. She took me right the way through my thought process, and I realised that actually a change of career would still be open to me once I had finished my first degree, which was only a little more than 12 months away. If I wanted to, having graduated, I could go then to Agricultural college and pursue another degree. Okay, so it meant continuing with the current course, but if I was going to jack that in after two years who was to say that I wouldn't look to jack in the Agricultural course after the same amount of time? In the end I persevered with my first choice, from which kicked off a set of circumstances that took me into a career that has paid me to travel the world.
I still sometimes hanker after that job based outside rather than behind a desk (read "hunched over a keyboard") but even at my age there is still time for that in the future.
Of course I was at University at the time when we were paid to be there, rather than taking on huge debts, which I know makes it much more of a difficult choice for you. But life has a remarkable way of working out sometimes.
So rather than seeking the opinions of a bunch of largely nameless, faceless, people on an Internet Forum, why not seek professional help from someone who can advise you on the career choice that's
really right for you? It will be money well spent and may settle your mind both now and in the future.
willie_gunn