Help please! It is beyond stressing me out how, of even if, to word this on my CV?
Basically I left school at 14 because of being a victim of a serious assault (GBH). From there I attended a special needs school 1 day a week until 16 (I don't have special needs in the conventional sense, i.e I am not disabled physically or mentally so god knows why this happened). Because I was only part time at school, I was only allowed to sit one GCSE. Obviously being a child I had no idea the impact of all of this to be honest,, I just went along with whatever my parents said.
I did go to college however was not allowed to sit A Levels without GCSEs - so had to do a Level 2 and Level 3 BTEC course in a beauty subject that I had no interest in.
Somehow got accepted into Law at university and did that until my 3rd year. My brother got diagnosed with brain cancer and the only treatment (at the time) was in the US. I lived with my parents at uni as couldn't afford to move out so I had to go with them, I also wanted to go to support my brother. I dropped out of uni to be able to do this and when I got back Student Finance wouldn't fund another year of university so I couldn't go back. In the end I got a full-time job at a company and worked my way up from the bottom to quite a good job now in the same company (just over 4 years).
The issue is now I can tell other employers don't understand my CV & feel like it's putting people off at the first hurdle when looking at my CV. At the moment I have missed education off entirely and just have work experience and professional qualifications on there. I only have just over 4 years full-time experience so they are somewhat aware I am not old enough to leave education off my CV entirely, and people who have my job now typically have a degree. I don't want to put 1 GCSE down without an explanation otherwise it just looks like I failed miserably when that isn't true. I don't really want to put my college subject down either as it isn't relevant to my job. And obviously I don't have a degree to put down. Do I send a cover letter explaining? I don't want to sound like I'm having a pity party. Do I wait to be asked?
What would you do? TIA!