Choice of career.

[Little Miss Anxious]

"Help I don't know what career to have. I haven't done the leaving cert or juniour cert ordinary level. I have done fetac level 3 in Maths, Communications, Computer Literacy, Personal Effectiveness, Preparation for work, Home Ecconomics, music and woodwork which I was told is equivalent to a juniour cert. I have no knowledge of any kind of science escept persoanl hygiene and the food pyramid but I would like to learn a bit of science. I don't like the school I want to because it was for people with special needs and the work we did in my last class when I was 18 was 10-12 year olds and I thought to myself I can do better than that. After I left that schoo without any graduation I was advised to start in National Learning Network even though I wanted to do my junior cert or leaving cert in the VEC but I was given no choice because my mum brought me there. I did fetac level 3 in Transition in the following modules: Career Information, Personal Care and presentation and Outdoor pursuits and I am now on a fetac level 5 course in Business adminstration and office skills but I don't want to be a receptionist or secretary and I would like to try the leaving cert ordinary level coz this is equivalent to a leaving cert but it angers me that I am not any where near mainstream level yet. I love english and want to expand my knowledge and skills. I love psychology, listening to peoples problems and giving them my opinion or advise, I love reading about realtionships and am interested in the theory or science or sexual attraction and physical attraction with the opposite sex. I love candles, romantic movies and music or love songs, Drama, bodylanguage, action movies, commedians, comedies and drama programs. I am supposed to get a cert for fetacl level 5 in Payroll, Book keeping, Text production, Info & administration, Communications level 5, and personal inter personal level 3 or level 5. I am very indecisive. I need an outlit. Don't want a job want to go onto further education and I want to meet people coz I have no friends. I am 21 and have just been through break up something which I never wanted. So any suggestions??? please........... wb

[NobodyElseWill]

don't go for entry studies at all they are not for people with dyspraxia. The amount of work the do is like being at pre-school or infants. I worked with the special ed needs (thats my favourite speciaity) and I assumed it would be people with minor difficuties say in reading, writing, maths but i didn't realise it was for people with extremely severe disabilties. But after few of settling and getting to knw the service users and i helped them with everything and even it meant i had help them to toilet or push wheelchairs. Even though I was only known as an observer/work experience student. To me i just mucked in and helped out as much i could. I also admitted to a few of the more able clients that i have a disability too and they were really supportive and enthusastic, it was like i was there fresh air. Even now i see the clients, a few of them have gone on to do great stuff like work for their local council, sainsburys and even some have gone to university.

[rowangerry]

For make career first select which field you are interested, than you can select in which degree you are want for the status. Like I want to become business man, so I select commerce than after doing MBA.