Right now I feel like I'm at a massive dead end and I'm only in my twenties.
Working 30hrs in a minimum wage job, all of my colleagues use their wages as pin money and I'm trying to sustain a life on mine which I can't do for the rest of my life. I just don't know which direction to turn in.
I dropped out of uni after one year because it was so clearly not suited to me, I didn't finish the year though so don't have a Cert of HE. My CV is peppered with big gaps where I have taken cash in hand jobs through necessity. The job I'm currently in is on the books though.
I can't afford to go back into HE, but could do a part-time course or distance learning course. I was thinking about admin type of work and can do a part-time OCR Text Processing course at a nearby college, however don't even know if that would be of any use without experience, since I live in a fairly low employment area. I've been looking at working from home proofreading but don't think I'd be good enough.
My self-esteem has taken a huge bashing now that I'm not a young naive teenager who's good enough to do anything. My good points I suppose would consist of a good work ethic, even though that's at odds with dropping out of uni and huge employment "gaps", but I do work hard. I pick up on things quite fast. Good grasp on IT, but no qualifications, just growing up in the digital age.
Has anyone been in a similar situation and pulled themselves out of it? Or got any advice? I feel really quite lost and like a massive fool. Please don't flame me, I already know how stupid I am.