I didn’t really like the school environment so left at 16 and did a vocational course. Although I got good GCSEs, I didn’t do too well at college – mainly through discovering booze and girls I think!
I then spent two years working abroad before starting a HND and moving up from that to complete a degree. I now work in IT.
I did a business and an IT course a college because I thought that’s what I’d need to go out and make some money. At school I was good at maths and science.
With the benefit of hindsight and the last 15 years in the ‘real world’ I really, really wish I had stayed at school and completed A levels in something I was good at, gone on to uni to do the same and got a job in something I could do. I constantly try to be good at my job now but I don’t think I ever really manage it.