Help and advice...?
Nov. 17th, 2003 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alixandreaRight, I just can't figure out where to turn or what to do with my life right now, so I'm going to ask you lot. I have so many options - some are somewhat limited by various things, but most problems are surmountable one way or another. I've been thinking a lot about where I am and where I want to be, and I know only one thing for certain - I don't want to be doing what I am doing!
Options for change then are:
Go back to University and use my HND towards a degree. Current favourite subjects include Music and Drama, perhaps as a combination. This would be here at Anglia Polytechnic. I could do this either full-time (means giving up my day job obviously, and shuffling my loan a bit) or part-time (means finding a part-time job or seeing if work would let me do part-time. May allow for other career options.) I would of course have to hope that I'd get funding towards this (either from student loans company or - less likely - the family that was _supposed_ to have set up a trust fund for us, but really doesn't want to give any to me unless, maybe, I study a 'proper' subject) as I can't afford it on my own.
Go to night school/do an OU course. I would really like to do some more A levels as I only finished two, and there are so many subjects I have an interest, but no formal qualifications in. Or I could study for a degree via the OU. It would take longer, and I would be less likely to get any funding at all for it, but I could continue earning in the meantime.
Concentrate all my efforts on getting work as a session musician/model/actress/walk-on/extra. Since this is in fact my chosen career format (leaning most heavily of course towards the session musician side, but branching out to keep myself afloat) should I forget trying to study for anything else and just concentrate solely on sorting my career out? Advice on CVs and self-promotion very much appreciated BTW.
Forget everything else, stay in the day job and concentrate on Skelliga. The day job gives me a relative amount of flexibility where time is concerned, which of course helps with the band. However, I hate the job, I know I can do better and it's sapping me of my will to carry on as a useful member of society. That said, it helps me afford to do the things I want to do (although I could still do with a payrise...)
Forget it all, I'm not worth anything more than this day job, and getting work in the industry I've chosen is too unlikely given levels of talent and competition.
What it says above.
Options for change then are:
Go back to University and use my HND towards a degree. Current favourite subjects include Music and Drama, perhaps as a combination. This would be here at Anglia Polytechnic. I could do this either full-time (means giving up my day job obviously, and shuffling my loan a bit) or part-time (means finding a part-time job or seeing if work would let me do part-time. May allow for other career options.) I would of course have to hope that I'd get funding towards this (either from student loans company or - less likely - the family that was _supposed_ to have set up a trust fund for us, but really doesn't want to give any to me unless, maybe, I study a 'proper' subject) as I can't afford it on my own.
Go to night school/do an OU course. I would really like to do some more A levels as I only finished two, and there are so many subjects I have an interest, but no formal qualifications in. Or I could study for a degree via the OU. It would take longer, and I would be less likely to get any funding at all for it, but I could continue earning in the meantime.
Concentrate all my efforts on getting work as a session musician/model/actress/walk-on/extra. Since this is in fact my chosen career format (leaning most heavily of course towards the session musician side, but branching out to keep myself afloat) should I forget trying to study for anything else and just concentrate solely on sorting my career out? Advice on CVs and self-promotion very much appreciated BTW.
Forget everything else, stay in the day job and concentrate on Skelliga. The day job gives me a relative amount of flexibility where time is concerned, which of course helps with the band. However, I hate the job, I know I can do better and it's sapping me of my will to carry on as a useful member of society. That said, it helps me afford to do the things I want to do (although I could still do with a payrise...)
Forget it all, I'm not worth anything more than this day job, and getting work in the industry I've chosen is too unlikely given levels of talent and competition.
What it says above.
