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To ask if you could start again what would you study??

183 replies

Londoner90 · 31/12/2020 09:35

Or would you study at all? Would you go to uni ? Would you consider money as in what salaries might be in the industry or would you follow your passion ?

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Preparedtobetoldimwrong · 31/12/2020 16:44

I did A levels in English and Sociology. Started Biology but dropped it after a year. Went to Uni and did an English B.Ed, so picking the wrong 3rd A level wasn’t a problem but I was talked out of doing History which I now regret. When I have time I’m going to do it through the OU.

Kiki275 · 31/12/2020 16:50

I would definitely do something more likely to end up with a relevant employment.
Sitting down to your first lecture to be told that looking to your left & right, only one of you will be working in this field in 10 years was not a good omen.

speakout · 31/12/2020 16:51

Medicine.

I was accepted to Uni but my parents talked me out of it.

Northernmummy80 · 31/12/2020 16:53

I would work harder at school and maybe go into the medical profession or even teaching. I would definitely still go to university but I have friends who did degrees that weren’t needed to work in their sector and apprenticeships would have given them a better footing and less debt.

Gumbo · 31/12/2020 16:56

Animation! I didn't even know it was a real 'thing' when I was at school, and regret not doing it as I'm good at that sort of thing. Am too old now though and have a decent well-paid job so can't really complain

NiceLegsShameAboutTheFace · 31/12/2020 16:58

I'd study finance and accountancy and become a chartered accountant with funky hair and piercings Smile

Brighterthansunflowers · 31/12/2020 17:00

I would do maths at A level (I did all humanities). I always enjoyed maths and was good at it and have always regretted giving it up after GCSE. I tried to study it as an adult but struggled with the time commitment at the point I was doing it and ended up quitting.

Potentially then would do something like statistics or accounting afterwards, which would be much more useful for a career than the particular humanities degree I actually did.

FangsForTheMemory · 31/12/2020 17:01

History as well as the languages I did study.

JacobReesMogadishu · 31/12/2020 17:03

Forensic anthropology.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 31/12/2020 17:05

I would do electrician training. I don't know good sparky who would have no job.

SarahAndQuack · 31/12/2020 17:07

I sometimes wish I'd done something more secure. I think when I went to university (2003) we mostly thought that if we worked hard, we ought to be able to get decent jobs and be comfortable (buying a house etc.).

I also wish I'd just cracked on a bit faster. If someone had told me the world was going to fall off a cliff with the crash, I would have hurried through my MA and PhD rather than doing them slowly!

Palavah · 31/12/2020 17:09

Medicine or languages or I'd have done the degree I did and then convert to law.

HollyGenneroMcClane · 31/12/2020 17:10

Id have dont accountancy like i actually wanted to. Bloody interfering mother.

BrumBoo · 31/12/2020 17:10

@Gumbo

Animation! I didn't even know it was a real 'thing' when I was at school, and regret not doing it as I'm good at that sort of thing. Am too old now though and have a decent well-paid job so can't really complain
I've known quite a few people who did animation, new arts, graphic design, gaming etc as a degree. Most of them gained nothing from it and most either fell into office jobs or teaching.

For medical, I'd go back, have a serious damn word with 14 year old me and set my sights on a scientific career. Something to do with biology, but not necessarily being a practising doctor.

Wineisrequired · 31/12/2020 17:11

I would go to college and do my nurse training. I always wanted to be a midwife but just felt at the time it would be better to just leave school and get a job .

PaperMonster · 31/12/2020 17:11

English. I didn’t go to Uni. I did night school in my late 20s and gained a post grad level qual, then later went on to do my PGCE. I’d love to do a Masters but I’d also like to do an English degree.

oopsiedaisie1 · 31/12/2020 17:12

Midwife, absolute dream but too late now 😞

emptyplinth · 31/12/2020 17:13

Medicine

FelicityPike · 31/12/2020 17:14

I would study Law.

squiddybear · 31/12/2020 17:15

Law is what I would and should have done. Just didn't believe that I'd ever get accepted

dohdohdoh · 31/12/2020 17:15

Architecture.

Something I've always been interested in but got talked out of by relatives who said it would be too difficult and take too long to qualify.

LakieLady · 31/12/2020 17:17

I'd have done history of art. At 18, I knew I liked some artists and not others, but little more than that.

Now, I look at paintings, especially renaissance paintings, and really wish I understood more about them.

Moo678 · 31/12/2020 17:17

Medicine - which is what I studied - no regrets. When kids are a bit older I might do a history degree via OU but I enjoy my job and wouldn’t change it.

Bluewavescrashing · 31/12/2020 17:18

Psychology I think. Really interesting.

Spied · 31/12/2020 17:18

I didn't know what I wanted to do really and I ended up doing a completely pointless degree at a 'new' University.
I really don't know what I was thinking and I hugely regret my decisions.

If I had my time again I'd choose a degree that actually qualifies me to do something.
I'd choose social work or teaching.

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