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I need advice about my future.
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I need advice about my future.
Hi guys, I am back after a little hiatus and i am in need of some advice.
First a little background, I am a 3rd year Business student who is coming close to finishing my studies, which I don't like and find boring. I chose the course out of convenience as well as a few other reasons (which i will elaborate on if you really want me to), though the years I have been getting between 40-65% of my coursework and I think I will end up with a 2.2. However, I failed a piece of coursework on a subject which I thought was interesting at in the first half, but the second half I was like the kids in this this:



And this subject is one of my weakest, and thus I am now completely demotivated abut my exams and really do not what to repeat the year.
I am just stuck with what to do, should stick with it and graduate with a poor-ish grades or bail and get a job somewhere now the job market is slowly picking up or what would the best course of action be?
Pros and cons would be appercatied.
Note: I am in the UK
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RE: I need advice about my future.
I would take a break from your studies until you figure things out. I didn't, and I eventually got expelled because I kept doing substandard work without knowing why. Now, decades later, I can look back and see that it was a part of a pattern of depression, but at the time, I couldn't see it. Don't ruin your GPA and future by pushing onward without a good plan as to what you're going to do if things don't turn around.
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RE: I need advice about my future.
(April 27, 2014 at 4:21 pm)rasetsu Wrote: I would take a break from your studies until you figure things out. I didn't, and I eventually got expelled because I kept doing substandard work without knowing why. Now, decades later, I can look back and see that it was a part of a pattern of depression, but at the time, I couldn't see it. Don't ruin your GPA and future by pushing onward without a good plan as to what you're going to do if things don't turn around.
I have to mention that I have only 2 months maximum left of my course then it is finished.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
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RE: I need advice about my future.
I don't know about the UK but over here the job market is rather dismal for recent graduates.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/busine...grads.html

Quote:Now evidence is emerging that the damage wrought by the sour economy is more widespread than just a few careers led astray or postponed. Even for college graduates — the people who were most protected from the slings and arrows of recession — the outlook is rather bleak.

College is no longer the panacea.
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RE: I need advice about my future.
(April 27, 2014 at 4:40 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I don't know about the UK but over here the job market is rather dismal for recent graduates.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/busine...grads.html

Quote:Now evidence is emerging that the damage wrought by the sour economy is more widespread than just a few careers led astray or postponed. Even for college graduates — the people who were most protected from the slings and arrows of recession — the outlook is rather bleak.

College is no longer the panacea.
Thanks any advice from UK?
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
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