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career?!

piggy1401

Hi everyone,

I like having plans and it’s stressing me out because in less than 2 years' time I am going to finish my A levels and I have no plan for afterwards. My 6th form keep talking about Uni and I have no clue what I would do at Uni because I don't even know what I want to do as a career. I don't even know if I want to go to Uni!

I am doing maths, psychology, and sociology A level. My favorite is definitely psychology, it’s so interesting. Any career ideas for me?

How did you decide on a career? Was it a difficult decision?

Alisha xx

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  • You could try and find out the career outcomes for graduates in a particular subject from a particular institution.

    Although a few years old here are some figures on number of applicants applying to study subjects

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-32230793

    It says for Psychology there were 106,000 applicants.  I don't know how many applicants started (and subsequently completed) a degree in Psychology, but I am sure that most of them would not get jobs as Psychologists.

    I think that a lot of people do what I did and like a subject at school and then apply to study it at university, if there are relatively few career opportunities in that subject, then many of them will have borrowed a lot oif money and will not get their career of choice.

    If I had my time again, I would have done more research into degree courses (there are many more choices of degree courses than there are A level courses, many degree subjects are not taught at school) and find out career prospects etc.  With your sociology you could train to be a social worker for example (there are a number of routes into this):

    https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/job-profiles/social-worker

    A career that is unlikely to be replaced with technology anytime soon.

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  • You could try and find out the career outcomes for graduates in a particular subject from a particular institution.

    Although a few years old here are some figures on number of applicants applying to study subjects

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-32230793

    It says for Psychology there were 106,000 applicants.  I don't know how many applicants started (and subsequently completed) a degree in Psychology, but I am sure that most of them would not get jobs as Psychologists.

    I think that a lot of people do what I did and like a subject at school and then apply to study it at university, if there are relatively few career opportunities in that subject, then many of them will have borrowed a lot oif money and will not get their career of choice.

    If I had my time again, I would have done more research into degree courses (there are many more choices of degree courses than there are A level courses, many degree subjects are not taught at school) and find out career prospects etc.  With your sociology you could train to be a social worker for example (there are a number of routes into this):

    https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/job-profiles/social-worker

    A career that is unlikely to be replaced with technology anytime soon.

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