I didn’t particularly enjoy the work – I don’t think many people did. But I loved college, the lessons, the sport, mates, everything about it.

First or second year?

It gets better…

Stick with it, honestly… Sounds cliched but you’ll regret it in years to come if you don’t stick out the year or so you’ve got left, to get the pieces of paper that say you have A Levels.

Besides, if when you’re older you decide you do want to further your education (and most people do at some point, at any time from 18-80), it will be much easier for you to then get onto further education like an HND or a degree if you’ve got the A Levels already than if not.

Also, work sucks, and there’s no jobs for 16-24 year old’s anyway! Trust me, much as you don’t like it at the mo, the grass is definitely not greener on the other side…

I liked school, and A levels. Part time job, get pissed a bit, flirt badly with girls, jumpers for goal posts etc.

What don’t you like about it?

What subjects are you doing? You’ve only got a few weeks till you’ve finished your first year, and then (assuming you’re going to a normal college like I did) you will get to drop one subject, so you’ll be doing less work, less lessons, more free time, and you’ve got rid of your least favourite subject.

Like everyone says, A levels are a great thing to have – but not everyone needs them. Wait until after your exams, see what your results are like, then talk to your parents, have a think, talk to your friends, talk to some career advisors (your college should have some, or connexions or whatever can help), come back here, and have a good think. Definitely wait until your results before making any big decisions.

A levels, who needs them, what you want is a rich daddy.

I hated sixth form so I left and went to college, turned out that was also shit. Unis has been great. 6 weeks left and it will all be over and I can call myself a master of engineering.

I’m currently doing A2’s and no matter how hard I try I always seem to open the results letter to find bad grades. Hopefully once I finish in around a month I got a year in New zealand

No but then I messed mine up badly. Things got better by university.

I can’t imagine where the bad grades are coming from. 😉

What subjects are you studying? I remember struggling with physics and maths and having a horrible time with them. After I was encouraged to drop them and just keep history and geography I really started to enjoy it.

If you are studying 3 or 4 A-levels why not look to drop to 2. You will still be able to get to university on that, although higher grades would obviously be needed to keep the UCAS points up.

Any idea what you want to do? I believe any A levels are better then no A levels, no matter what job you’re going for, but if you’re interested in something completely different, it might be why you’re not enjoying those subjects.

i agree with.

hmm, and like every other student, you’ll get a job and realise you know heehaw! 😀

That Psychology A-Level is probably the one that causes you the most grief to get good grades in… and it sounds like you have no specific plans for it.

Remember you have options other than all or nothing if it gets that bad staying on top of the work load. It was the best advice I was given.

It’s all too easy to take something easy or promise yourself something will just be a temporary thing, then get stuck in a rut. Best to decide what you want to do (or at least have some idea), before you go and try and do it. Until then, might as well stay in college IMO.

Uni is awesome by the way.

If you leave education now, with no qualifications, unless you’re very lucky or have one hell of a lot of natural talent for something (ie. football or Golf), you’ll be lucky these days if you could make a success of yourself stacking shelves!

This isn’t a slight against anybody out there who doesn’t have qualifications, especially those that have done well for themselves, just sadly a result of the state of affairs we are in today. Quite simply, there are more than 1 million 18-24 year olds out of work, and most of these have no real qualifications (you spotting a pattern here?).

If you don’t like your A Levels, change them. If you don’t like the A Levels you change to, change them again. Or change to a more vocational qualification perhaps if that suits.

DO NOT THINK for one moment you’ll be able to leave college and just go and get some work… 30 years ago, yeah no problems, but times have changed drastically sunshine.

Incidentally, I’m saying this as a highly qualified 31 year old, that struggled so badly being in and out of work, I’ve decided to return to education yet again to pursue something that I’m really passionate about.

The more qualifications you have, the more choice you will have in the path your life takes.

heh! A-levels were so easy. You only work a few hours a week. And that was twenty years ago. My son (who is seventeen), seems to spend virtually all his time at home. I enjoyed college far more than sixth form though. Plenty of girls, beer and fun.

Trust me pal, once you get a job, even if you enjoy it, it’ll be 5 million times worse than what you’re doing now if you want to get on.

You’ll graft hours you wouldn’t believe possible, come under pressure that will scare you silly and spend hours at night awake worrying about work….WORK!

HTH. Have a nice life.

samuri – out of interest what is your job?