But that seems exactly what a lot of young people feel pushed to do. A few weeks ago I had a careers programme at school, most of the hour was spent saying how well the school had done last year for getting X amount of students into 'insert prestigious university here', then about 10 minutes was spent calculating where we'd all fit in the schools grand master plan to get us all into some form of higher education and 5 minutes was spent glazing over the other options open to us. I felt like we were being pressured into university, it even felt as though it had already been decided for me,
Don't get me wrong, I think higher education is a great thing, amazing in fact but it made me a little sad to see how little time was spent looking at all the vast possibilities open to us as young people. I sat there and felt as though we were being carted along a conveyor belt being sorted by a careers adviser into good and bad eggs. Simply products of an examination factory ready to transported to the university deport. But life isn't that simple. Human beings are complex and then can't be sorted nor put a straight running production line, because unlike eggs we can decided to get off that conveyor belt, we can decided to stay on it, we can decided we want to leave now and return later and we can decide that we liked a join a different line.
What that conveyor belt really represents is life. We need to stop thinking about life as a linear pathway but a path that can twist and turn, bend back on itself, expand and contract sideways and constantly change. So if you feel pressured into taking what seems like the only path in or feel as though your going down a certain path because it's the 'expected thing' then stop for a moment. Realise that though you may feel people will judge because you don't have degree, is this going to make you happy? Is this what you want? If yes, keep going with your dreams, and if no - then the path your are on is not right for you. It's time to change direction and onto another journey, Not a failed one, not an unworthy one, just a different one. And believe it or not... different is okay
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