School Advice Please

[Fixed Pants™]

Feel proper wank about school now, basically i'm doing yr 11 again (btecs in ICT and bussiness, resit maths and key skills literacy) and i'm not a stupid willy, like you'd expect a redoer to be. It's too shit for me, all because i was too lazy to work.

This sums up why i feel shit about it:

J a c k R a t h e r a m says:

its what the cabbages do and window lickers and the "deep-rolling chavs" do

I really don't know what to do, i could go to college but that's pretty much just as shit, and if i do this spastic year i can kinda sort out my shit results, but i wouldn't be happy doing it or anything, and will most probably do shit again because i wasn't happy with it, and it means i'd be a whole year behind my friends.

With college, i've got an unconditional place, doing car repair and maintainence, which could lead to an apprentiship if i get lucky, and my friend who i ride with, did the college route and now earns 25 odd grand a year and he's only 20, far more ahead of his friends. I don't wanna do anything academic ideally, i wanna do something that's actually skilled like car mechanics. However, college is just as shit, it's full of shit heads like you'd expect with the btec thing year.

f**k.

Basically, anyone else f**ked up and had these two routes (don't care what courses, just what place you go to kinda thing, college or school) and anyone know what would be the best route to take?

f**k.

[Simpson]

If you want to go down the... A-level Academic probably Uni level... then a years nothing get your grades at GCSE do you A-levels work you ass off and sort it out...

If your going to waste a year re-doing your GCSE's when you only want to do car repair dont bother... do car repair and do as well as you can and learn your trade inside out. do well in your exams, realised you f**ked up at GCSE, but your GCSE's aint really gonna help you fix a car.. hands on experience and guiding will....

Helped?

[Fishy]

Yeah, i didn't do amazing, so I have the choice of royal marines or college.

Still haven't decided.

[Dan Clark]

Really the solution here would have been to not be a tard and actually worked hard in the first place?

Simpson sums it up pretty well anyway.

[Fixed Pants™]

Yeah, that's what i'm faced with though, i'm 99.9999% sure i don't want to go to uni, but i want the qualifications of a levels. But i also want to do something mechanical, not sit behind a f**king desk all day, cos i could see myself being shit about that, which wouldn't be good.

Argh, ffs, can't put what's on my mind on paper (or screen) and i can't f**king decided.

Anyone SURE about what's the better route and wants to explain it to me, because i'm not too sure where i stand.

AHHHH.

Cheers for all help.

[Dr. Nick Riviera]

piss it all up a wall and sell yourself for sex.

a year is nothing, even if you don't do A-levels it'll help with employment.

[Fixed Pants™]

piss it all up a wall and sell yourself for sex.

a year is nothing, even if you don't do A-levels it'll help with employment.

Yeah, see, that's what's f**king me, i want the grades, but if i get into the trade of car mechanics, i'd be ok, i guess.

[Dan Clark]

You can always do the mechanics course a year later.

[Dr. Nick Riviera]

Yeah, see, that's what's f**king me, i want the grades, but if i get into the trade of car mechanics, i'd be ok, i guess.

don't rely on a trade, get your education shitty knickers.

don't forget apprentices make like £80 a week, checkout monkeys can bring home twice that at least.

[Fixed Pants™]

You can always do the mechanics course a year later.

But i dunno if i'll have a place, and even then, i'd be like that old man that did shit and is doing a course with all the kids.

[Matthew62]

If you go to Uni it doesnt mean you're destined for a job bwhind a desk - thats stupid. Really this should have taught you not too be such a lass ass, i mean GCSE's arent the hardest thing you'll face in your life, and you said you're not thick you're just lazy......well then f**king snap out of it. What makes you think you can do Car mechanics? If you're lazy you'll fail that too! Surelly if you cant be bothered to do anything then you wont ever achieve anything.

You are young, motivate yourself and get off your ass, re take your exams its only one year - get some A levels like you want then in 3 years time you may have a better idea of what you want to do - you can always change your mind, your life is far from over.

Dont worry about your friends leaving you behind, youre at school to work and it seems like you could do without the distractions so just work hard - youve already done the year once so you know what to expect, and just hang out with your mates when youve got some free time.

Stop being lazy!

[manxrider]

Could join the army as a mechanic? The pay might not be great but its probaly a much better experiance and it's a decent carear path.

oh and to matthew62 he never said that "If you go to Uni it doesnt mean you're destined for a job bwhind a desk", he just said he didn't want to go to uni or be sat behind a desck.

Edited September 5, 2007 by manxrider

[Dan Clark]

But i dunno if i'll have a place, and even then, i'd be like that old man that did shit and is doing a course with all the kids.

You would be one year older, I'm two years older than the people in my course but except for my tattoo's you wouldn't know.

Plus you look about 8 so you'll look younger than everyone anyway.

If they've accepted you this year there's no way they'll decline you next year, especially because you should have improved results.

[Fixed Pants™]

What makes you think you can do Car mechanics?

If i like what i'm doing, i'll either be good at it in the first place or i'll work at it, if i'm don't like what i'm doing, i'll be shit at it and won't bother.

I just hope i can actually do what i've said i'll do - not be an arse, and sort my shit out. But it's easier said than done.

Bill, without saying much, i was 'squeezed in'.

Edited September 5, 2007 by Fat Pants

[Fish-Finger-er]

don't rely on a trade, get your education shitty knickers.

don't forget apprentices make like £80 a week, checkout monkeys can bring home twice that at least.

depends who your employed with, im an apprentice garage mecahnic, albeit one for a global telecommunications company, and i started on like 4x that.(only took home like £210 a week after n.i, tax, union fees(optional) and pension(optional)

but. and its a big but, i needed 5 a-c's to get the job, i had 12 a-c's, and 3 as' levels, as well as glowing references from like 3 previous employers,had community work down, as i was a basketball coach who didnt get payed, a full driving license etc. which at 17 for a mechanic is a pretty blindin resume. but i was still 2nd choice.

so even if you want to get into garage mechanics, suggest getting some good grades and getting a better apprenticeship to begin with.

[Dan Clark]

You should have better results next year, so it should be easier.

If you really think you won't get in next year but you really fancy mechanics then take it now.

[Conor the basher.]

Hey dude, im kind of having the same problem as you ish lol.. basically i suffer from sriouse panic attacks, anxiaty,sleep disoder,ocd and someother things i can rember and ive had this for about 3 years now since year 9 ive found it a real struggle getting to school and now im in year 11 im not going to get any gcses and it really stresses me out not nowing what im going to do with my life

the way i see it is i dont want to be a fancy loyer ect.... so im just going to get a 8-5 job and if i get intrested in somthing do futher edjucation to get the qualifacations i need, im not sure weather any of this will help but f**k redoing a year of school..... there are alot of people in school who you can talk to about this so maby try get some advice

[Haz]

Sounds like a load of 'if's and 'but's to me.

You need to think about what you enjoy, what you are good at, and where you want to a reasonable distance into the future.

Try and set yourself up with a Connexions interview, they helped me a little, when I didn't know what I wanted to do next.

It really is about getting on with it though, I was immeasurable close to f**king up my A-levels because I did no work over the past year, but fortunately I scraped through and I'll do better, because I know I can't continue like that.

[Tony Harrison]

I got confused by the cabbages bit and didn't read anymore.

Haven't eaten cabbage for ages now...

[Toby]

depends who your employed with, im an apprentice garage mecahnic, albeit one for a global telecommunications company, and i started on like 4x that.(only took home like £210 a week after n.i, tax, union fees(optional) and pension(optional)

but. and its a big but, i needed 5 a-c's to get the job, i had 12 a-c's, and 3 as' levels, as well as glowing references from like 3 previous employers,had community work down, as i was a basketball coach who didnt get payed, a full driving license etc. which at 17 for a mechanic is a pretty blindin resume. but i was still 2nd choice.

so even if you want to get into garage mechanics, suggest getting some good grades and getting a better apprenticeship to begin with.

you needed all that?

im currently doing a HGV mechanics apprentiship (2nd year now)and started on 190 a week i only had a c in maths, and like 2 engineering qualifications from college( they didnt even pay attention to that)

though pay can vary from were you work, but hgv garages seem pritty desperate for apprentises at the moment, maybe think about that fat pants

[Tomm]

Get your GCSEs. Like other people have said, it's only a year and you NEED 5 A-Cs for just about any job that requires you to be more than a trained chimp. I'm not quite sure how anyone knows what they want to do aged 16, so you're limiting your options a bit by having no GCSEs.

[Simpson]

its what the cabbages do and window lickers and the "deep-rolling chavs" do

I got confused by the cabbages bit and didn't read anymore.

Basically... its what people who are mentally retarded do... becuase they didnt get any GCSE's, or like my mate who went on a course like this was with loads of kids with like ASBO's who turned up to avoid a jail sentance. So basically spastics and Chavs lol

[br3n]

don't rely on a trade, get your education shitty knickers.

don't forget apprentices make like £80 a week, checkout monkeys can bring home twice that at least.

thats £80 more than every other student gets per week... plus at the end of your time as a checkout monkey youre still a checkout monkey. being an apprentis cant be looked at as a job, its education. even if its not in a school/college with lectures.

[Dr. Nick Riviera]

thats £80 more than every other student gets per week... plus at the end of your time as a checkout monkey youre still a checkout monkey. being an apprentis cant be looked at as a job, its education. even if its not in a school/college with lectures.

but for the sake of a year (at 16) it's worth getting your gcse's or you'll be properly f**ked once you get bored of fixing cars.

[Egg Fried Rice]

Get your qualifications mate. Then after all that shizzle you can try something new. And if that fails, you will have something to fall back on. Without some sort of quialification in this world, there is a low chance you will be having an amazing job that rolls in the money.

But on that note, i get really annoyed with people that have no qualifications and get 'lucky'. For example, sportsmen like footballers. There are a few players that are criminals and there school life was shit as but they get lucky/scouted and they now earn loads of money for kicking a ball around a field.

But it's hard to make that decision, whether to work hard at something you want to do and get lucky (good example would be someone like Lewis Hamilton) or go into education for a 'safer' route.

I talk so much crap it's unreal

JK