At the moment I'm presuming a hell of a lot of people are questioning whether or not university is the right path for them. I'll never wonder about my decision, but it's crazy what people can do without the qualifications.
I had to create a website for a part of my A2 media course. This took preparation, time and mostly self-education as pretty much no-one around me gave me any hints or clues as to how I was supposed to go about this task. Long story short, absolutely everything that could have gone wrong did.
After much disappointment and a lot of chasing I finally found one man that would make all my troubles go away. I sat in a room for half an hour whilst he clicked around and hey-presto everything was sorted. After two weeks, surely, someone could have just told me to go to him.
Phil, ICT man and genius of the year, didn't go to university either. He's now 21 with his own business, running a school's business and working as an ICT engineer at a school too. I looked at pictures of his BMW on the wall of his office and wondered if I'd ever get to his level. Without further education he was able to become so sucessful and make his life as simple as possible.
Obviously, he spent most the half an hour (whilst carrying on with my ICT problems) telling me that university was a waste of time and with the right work experience and self-study I could do it all myself. I can't help but wonder if he's right.
University isn't just about getting grades and a job it's is about finding yourself as a person. Everyone I know, who didn't go, spent their 20s thinking they were right and the rest of their life realising they had been wrong!
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