Im in my last year of college about to go to uni in sept, however i almost feel like ive taken the wrong career path and i feel its to late to go back.

I choose to do music technogly at college, and now ive been accepted a place to do media & communication at uni, but now i wish i never did music techonogly to begin with !

Ive always have a love of animals and wanted to be a vet, however i thought after leaving school it would be too hard and take to long to get the right qualifications for that. Also the fact i would have to leave home etc etc. But if there was a uni right where i lived that did a vetrainary degree i definatley would have done my A levels in science and maths. I also thought at the time i wasnt clever enough ( you need three a levels at 'A' grade) Not only that i was also put off by the fact that you hardly ever see black peopleor any people of colour being vets ( in england anyway )

I was just wondering if anyone had taken a particular career path then years down the line decided to get back into college get new qualifcationsand change thier career to something totally different?

if you are TRULY interested in becoming a vet, contact your nearest vet/animal rescue centre and ask for work experience.

Don;t worry about not knowing of any other Black folks being vets. Gotta start with someone, may as well be you!!

mi$$ wrote: Dont worry Mi$$. Speak to your careers advisor at college orgo to connexions they will be able to advise you on what steps you can take to re-route your choosen path in vetenary. Re: your place at uni, again dont worry, howeveri'm sure you will have to obtain the prerequisite subjects to get on your desired course. I also think MB's advice to gain experience is a very good idea; you dont want to get on a 4 year degree course and find that it's not what you want after all. And leaving your home to study can only be a good thing in terms of your personalgrowth; it will be fun, dont be scared!Good luck and well done.

Hello mi$$.You say that youare in your last year of College...so what you must be 17/18 right? 17/18 is young!!!!! I know people in their thirties who have gone back to College/Uni after years of working to study further, in order to change their career path.

If being a vet is what you really want to do, then I would seriously suggest that you look into how you could go about doing so. I say this because you do not want to look back in 10/20 years time and think 'what if?'.

Also another thing, you talked of 'not being clever enough', well let me tell you something, you know what the biggest obstacle to success is? It is ourselves. We condition ourselves into believing we 'are not clever enough' or 'not good enough', and we allow this lack of self-belief/self-esteem tarnish our futures.

My advice: do what you really want to do. Fair enough it may take a little longer to get to where you really want to be, but I am certain that it would/will be worth it in the end. Go for itniceone.gif

lilthuggy wrote: Well said!! niceone.gifthats exactly what I was thinking....When I was at college, there were students who were like in their late twenties/thirites. All because they messed up at a younger age.

This is why its best to get everything done at the ages of 16 to 19, because after that it gets much more HARDER to get back in the system. Whether it being charges to enroll, lack of time, and other responsiblities.....

The advice I would give is to get work EXPERIENCE at an actual vet so you know if its the right profession for you. After that ask around fro NVQ's or apprenticeships..........

Hope everyting goes all well



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Also see this thread, from folks older than you who took "alternative turns" before getting where they want to be. Your life doesn;t HAVE to be laid out and decided before the age of 20!!

http://www.bnvillage.co.uk/forum10/27025.html

MarcusGarveyLives wrote: You couldn't be more patronizing if you tried. She's young, not an idiot.

@Mi$$- Lots of people change their career paths when they're in their 30s, 40s and 50s. Incidently, i feel like I've made the wrong choice with my dissertation topic but I'm still gonna do it and not allow myself to be held back by the decision and you dont have to either.

If you know in your hart of hars that you will not be happy with your current choice, then you owe it to yourself to pursue your dream. Sometimes the journey to get there can be a little scary when it seems like there are unfamiliar obstacles to get through but don't ever think than you simply can't do it. Just bite the bullet and go through.

Just to clarify on an earlier point made in this thread, what you study at university is more often the START of your career path so yes, its important to choose wisely. secondly, music technology and media&communications are worlds apart from eachother (i know cos i study the latter lol) and as far as career paths go, its more than viable- not just a hobby.so if you do decided to go back to it, don't ever be discouraged but the belief that its "just a hobby" and "not a proper subject" (many tried to tell me the same). Just trust your instincs and follow both your heart and mind.