Seriously, I need a bitta help

[Sentrax]

Okay.. this is gonna drag on, but please read it and try and help me, I'd really appreciate it. =]
Okay, I'm 17 next month, I'm in my first year of sixth form and I hate it. I've taken English lit and Music tech, but since I chose them my whole outlook on life has changed. I can't stand sixth form, I'm in a Welsh school, and I'm shouted at for not speaking Welsh to my friends. I feel like I'm way too mature for it. So much crap that I'm not gonna list, but the main point is - I made a bad decision in going to sixth form instead of college. Okay, I got 2 A's, 4 B's, 4 C's and a D in my GCSE's. Better than I expected.
In the future, I don't wanna be stuck in a 9 to 5 lifestyle. I don't wanna get up, go to work, come home, pay the bills, and repeat. It doesn't appeal to me. Life is life. I only have one of them. One day it will be over and nothing I've ever done will matter. So I wanna make the most of it while I'm here. I don't want to spend the next 2 years in school, I don't want to spend the 4 years after that in University, and I dont wanna spend the rest of my life after that in a normal job.
Comfortable living doesn't bother me, obviously I don't wanna be a tramp, but I love the idea of getting a small van, packing a bag, taking my guitar, and just seeing the world. I want out of Wales, and I wanna cram as much into my life as I can. If anyone's thinking 'well youve gotta work like everyone else first, then you can live' then stop reading, you dont understand me. I want to live now. I don't want the next 6 years to be boring. If I'm not gonna enjoy what I'm told to do, then I'm not gonna do it. Homework for example. I don't do it because I have better things to do. Instead, I go out with my camera and take photos, and see friends.
I'm in big trouble at school at the moment, because of my lack of effort in anything, it's not laziness, it's not rebellion. I just dont like it. I have a reoccurring dream that a little boy comes up to me when I'm dying in a hospital bed and asks me: 'Ryan, what have you done in your life?'. And in the dream, I don't answer. Because Ive got nothing to say. I've had it with teachers and parents telling me what to do. I'm a creative, ambitious person and I wanna express that, and I wanna do it now.
So I was thinking of dropping out of sixth form, getting a day job and earning some money instead of school, then in September having a fresh start in college doing a media & arts course. So I want you lot to reply and see what you think of this plan. Where could it go wrong and how? Am I making the right decision? What precautions should I take?
Thanks guys
x

[reeana]

I like the way you write and i think you should do it but i'm not sure about what the parents might say though.

[Access]

lol can't believe i actually bothered reading that but you're in the same boat as me, apart from i dropped out of college because i was thinking the same - not sixth form

are you making the correct decision? i dunno about going to college instead of sixth form because i don't imagine it to be much different, college seems good when you're told about it and think about what it would be like but its a different story once you're actually going in almost every day going over the same **** week in week out

its obviously up to you what you do but good luck with whatever you choose and i hope it works out for you

[Immenseman]

I think you'll find that there are so many people who want the same as you, maybe not as much but school and college isn't built to entertain, it has a fundamental function to educate. It's clear to me you're not a stupid person and your GCSE grades reflect this, you have got yourself a good set there. I understand you don't wish to continue college and I think you should drop it and get a job for this year and go back like you said. Your education betters your standard of living considerably. Statistically the majority of people who go to college and get a levels earn more than people who dropped out at GCSE. The people who go to university earn more than people who dropped out at A levels etc.

Of course, that is only an economic view and I think that maybe school isn't for you. You're evidently intelligent enough to enrole and do well but you have other aspirations which you really need to consider because a wrong step here would control the rest of your life.

I say drop college get working this year start again next September make new friends put some effort into your course and see what happens. Then maybe you might even get a job doing the kind of thing you enjoy, in photograhpy or in some form of media where you won't be stuck in an office job.

[Sentrax]

Yeah
I wanna grab a guitar, bag, train ticket, write some tunes... and off I go
That's what the real me inside is
I want someone else's sofa to be my bedroom, someone different every week. I wanna take my breakfast on the train... stuff like that is what makes my heart go.
How's things working out for you now Access?

[J0SH]

If you're in sixth form and hate it you should just go college, it's far better and you're 17 next month so you don't need to legally go school, if you want the extra grades and stuff go for it, if not I'd do something you would enjoy like getting a job based around something you like.

[dirrty]

having alevels and going university makes getting a job so much easier than only having gcse qualifications. sure there are people who make it with the latter, but they're rare.

[Access]

not really doing much atm just go to the gym most days, waiting about for a reply from the navy which i was looking to do in the first place so everythings fine atm

[Foals]

i'm the same really, i really regret dropping out of school and going straight into work and i've decided to work until september then go to college. personally i think you'd be making the right decision dropping sixth form and going to college next year if you hate it, why waste 2 years doing something you hate? and if you're not doing the homework or whatever you're not going to achieve anything through it are you... so i think you should drop out then start doing something you enjoy next year, personally. & don't decide against anything because of your parents, because it's not their life.
sorry if that didn't make any sense lol.

& your post actually made me think about my own life and stuff so cheers, lol.

[Foals]

double post soz