Going back to education, but am I fooling myself?

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The title says it all really. Sorry if this is in the wrong section, mainly posting for traffic as I really don't know what to do.

Let's just say I failed at life! I have been in education and work since the age of 16. I am now 25, I have got qualifications behind me but they are all qualifications I don't want to pursue a career in. I chose to fail my final year at university as I was not enjoying it, I hated going and I realised it was not something I wanted a career in anyway, so I gave it up. 9k times 3 worth of grand in debt but hey! I did NVQ in health and social care when I worked as a care assistant and come to the realisation that I do not want to work as a carer. I got sick of being shouted at, working short staffed all the time, being called in for meetings for not trying hard enough at my job (impossible when short staff!) Thats why I wanted out and I don't want to go back. As far as I am concerned, doing an NVQ in that sector has been a waste of time and money.

I have really thought hard about what I want to do in life. Because I certainly do not want to continue doing what I am doing! I work as a cleaner, cleaning shitty toilets, I have a 2 year old who I absolutely love so much and a wonderful husband who works in a good job. I am really thinking of going back to education and start it all from scratch: redo my Maths and English course, and then do a Computer and IT course as one thing I do genuinely enjoy is working with are computers and configuring them/get it up and running, you know what I mean! I failed Maths so many times as maths is literally the bane of my life BUT I think if I tried hard enough and put all of my effort and hard work into it, I can do it. I have to believe in myself.

I really do want to better my life. I don't want to reach to the age of 50 and bitterly regret not trying hard enough to get a better life. I want to go to places. I cannot keep on cleaning for the rest of my life! I am not against those in dead end jobs but I am sick and tired of doing the same thing day in day out on shitty minimum wage with nothing to show for it!

It's never too late to learn more, but if you struggle with maths I'd look carefully at any IT degrees, because the maths will become pretty complex.

What subject is your degree study to date in? Have you looked at using those credits towards another degree?

Social Sciences... even I don't know the definition or meaning of what it means in all honesty! I have looked into putting my current credits towards another degree especially on Open Uni but honestly there's absolutely nothing on there that interests me except the Computing and IT side. I know what you mean, on Open Uni you get to choose your modules and mathematics is only optional thank goodness. I don't think I want to do a degree though, perhaps a diploma?

Maybe have a look at an information systems degree? There would be less maths on those and you can go into development afterwards.

But what's the plan for after you have the qualification? What role do you want to go into? Would the roles you'd be interested in work with minimal maths?

I'd figure that out and then work backwards from there.

Hi OP I think you should give education another go. Did you get Maths and English GCSE C or above as if you didn't you can go and retake them free of charge. You need to find out college courses asap as a lot of courses have recently started. Good luck and think of it as the first step towards a new career and future.

The OU computing degrees require you to take at least one maths module, and there will be an element of maths in the others. It's a core skill you're not going to get away from, either in study or work.

What do you want to do at the end of it? Remembering that you're going to be competing with graduates with a full degree and relevant work experience.

Sorry to be pessimistic, but you'll know that the jobs market for graduates is pretty poor currently. I'd look at your end goal and work backwards from there. What do you enjoy about working with computers? Networking, programming, and/ or more the practical side of it?