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For me, considering Careers and Career choices has always been a complicated thing. I’ve never ever had any clue what I wanted to do with my life, even at this time I’m a little uncertain. In reality, I haven’t yet made any major life-changing Career choices. I had initially sleceted Geography and Environmental management at Northumbria University. I quit after not very long, however. Still befuddled about what CareersI should be considering did not offer me much incentive to stay. So I quit, decided to take up some part time work, and consider some New careers, ones which I had never considered before.

I got a part-time job at Makro, working evenings, clearing up the shelves. Not very interesting, but left my days open to consider training for New careers I might be looking at. One in particular I had been looking at was Teaching Assistant. It was one of the few Career choices that had appealed to me recently. Good working hours and holidays, working with kids, which I did not mind. The training course for level 2 was also quite short as far as training courses go, just 16 weeks in total. So I took on the training, got myself a work experience job at a local school. The training flew by, but I found out something from the work experience placements. I felt too immature to be a teaching assistant. When I was struggling to control my laughter at the few hell raisers in the class winding the teacher up, I figured maybe I should start considering some other Careers.

So training done, rather than looking at teaching assistant Careers, I decided to go back to university. I’d essentially had a gap year, maybe I could do better this time. I decided I wasn’t going to think about what Career choices I would attain from a course. I was going to do it because I wanted to do it. So I chose Animation and Design, and started on a three year course at Sunderland University. This time, I managed to stick out a full year. However, the course was very hard for me. I had never finished any art course before, and often felt far behind the others in the group. So although I had a lot of fun on my first year, my lack of experience was obvious, and I failed. Faced with re-sitting the complete year, I decided to cut my losses and finish. So it was back to the drawing board, and time to think about some New careers I could contemplate.

Still, things never work as you plan them. Towards the end of my time at Sunderland University, I found myself falling in love. This ended up being to blame for my existing line of work. My new found partner had as little idea what to do about New careers as I myself had. So he managed to obtain full-time work at a call centre. After leaving University, being stuck on a part-time wage wasn’t the best, and eventually I was drawn into the dark world of call centres, the idea being the good wage would get us our house together.

It did, and we now reside together, gladly for the most part, although now we are both thinking about New careers we can begin. Call centre work might be a good choice for some people, there are plenty of opportunities to advance. Not for me however.