Anyone else start college tomorrow?

[Zak]

Well I'll be at College tomorrow, so technically...

[Circadia]

Starting Upper Sixth (2nd year) of Sixth Form on the 1st September

[Cody]

start 2nd yr of college on the 10th of sept i think! kinda looking forward to being back at college

have fun everyone

What are you majoring in?

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Well I'll be at College tomorrow, so technically...

Haha, what year will you be going into?

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Starting Upper Sixth (2nd year) of Sixth Form on the 1st September

What are you majoring in?

[Zak]

Haha, what year will you be going into?

I dread to think. I'm not actually a student, I work at a college.. hence why there was a technically lol

[Cody]

I dread to think. I'm not actually a student, I work at a college.. hence why there was a technically lol

Aww you got me there.

[lawrawrrr]

I wish I was going back to college or uni

[Inseriousity.]

I wish I was going back to college or uni

I thought you were starting a PGCE, did you withdraw?

[lawrawrrr]

I thought you were starting a PGCE, did you withdraw?

I got my offer from Exeter to do it but I started umming and ahhing when I thought I'd failed at that interview. After then I kinda started looking into journalism jobs and really reconsidered my life a lot (a lot of people say going straight into a PGCE after a degree and school isn't the best idea and you should get "life experience").

In erm, April, when I was finishing up my diss and stuff I applied to two jobs more in what I love doing - I like teaching and I wanted to do it since I was 7, but I LOVE digital marketing, journalism, copywriting, graphic design, website management & social media management which I discovered during my time at Uni (and on here tbf) - which I never ever even CONSIDERED I could make a career out of.

Anyway I applied to these jobs, one digital marketing and one sub-editor (page design) at a newspaper (biggest one in Wales). Got turned down for first (which I wanted more, a lot more money), but got offered interview, trial and a full-time job within a week. Handed in diss on 9th May, started work on 14th!

I always thought I'd experience it for 3 months, see if I liked it and then I could decide whether to turn down Exeter or not - I didn't let them know until a couple of weeks ago. I really love my job though, and although being a student is a hell of a lot less stressful I wouldn't give it up for the world.

Maybe I'll go back into teaching at some point, it's not like I've ruined any opportunity for that, but for now I just think I'm really good at my job and I like it so I might as well stick with it!

/lifestory

TL;DR: Yes. I turned it down 'cos I got a job.

[Inseriousity.]

I haven't applied for a PGCE cos of the same thing (life experience) so was just curious. Good luck though. My auntie does SEO/social media management and she enjoys it too.

[lawrawrrr]

I haven't applied for a PGCE cos of the same thing (life experience) so was just curious. Good luck though. My auntie does SEO/social media management and she enjoys it too.

I really noticed in my interviews (I went to two) that a lot of the applicants are older and they had other jobs before. Another reason I turned against it was because I'm only JUST 21 and I look really young for my age - I don't think students would even respect me until I'm older anyway.

At the moment I've gone like super creative at work (I had so much fun designing this african pattern thing I'll post tomorrow once it's published) but I'd miss the creative graphic design element if I didn't have my other job too, so I think it's for the best. It's never too late to do a PGCE though, there was a woman who I think said was 45 in one of my interviews, and she was SO pro at it!