Hello! This is a bit longwinded but I just want to give some background.
I dropped out of my first year at sixth form college around november/december time. When I left school I didn't really have any idea what I was going to do, and I just went to college for the sake of going. Needless to say I didn't do very well as I had no aspirations in particular and for various reasons I dropped out. I still didn't know what I wanted to do, and decided to try to get a job in the meantime whilst I would try to work out what exactly it was that I wanted to do for the rest of my life.
That didn't work out too well either. I don't know whether I was unlucky or too lax in jobsearching but even now I still haven't found anything. My dad and I recently moved into a house that needs a lot of work though, so I have spent the time doing jobs on the house whilst my dad works, though I do obviously feel like a huge leech. I can't say with all honesty that I didn't enjoy the first couple of months of doing nothing although now I basically just feel a bit ashamed for not doing anything for such a long time.
However in the last month or so I became aware of the possibility of me going into the merchant navy. This is really the only thing that I've ever genuinely felt I could enjoy doing my whole life, and I'm a little bummed out I never looked at it before. I've thought about it for a long while and looked into it to make sure I would definitely want to do this.
So yeah, my question-
I'm planning to apply for places in january, as I hear courses begin in both september and january, and I'm assuming I'm far too late to apply for september. What I want to know is would the fact that I am a 17 year old who dropped out of college and proceeded to do bugger all for another five or six months be detrimental to the possibility that I'd be accepted? Would this damage my chances at all, even if there is nothing wrong with the rest of my application? Should I leave the fact that I attended college out? Or would that just make the fact that I've been doing nothing look even worse?
I'm sorry for the length. I probably could have just asked the question by itself now that I think about it.
That's a bad habit.
I dropped out of my first year at sixth form college around november/december time. When I left school I didn't really have any idea what I was going to do, and I just went to college for the sake of going. Needless to say I didn't do very well as I had no aspirations in particular and for various reasons I dropped out. I still didn't know what I wanted to do, and decided to try to get a job in the meantime whilst I would try to work out what exactly it was that I wanted to do for the rest of my life.
That didn't work out too well either. I don't know whether I was unlucky or too lax in jobsearching but even now I still haven't found anything. My dad and I recently moved into a house that needs a lot of work though, so I have spent the time doing jobs on the house whilst my dad works, though I do obviously feel like a huge leech. I can't say with all honesty that I didn't enjoy the first couple of months of doing nothing although now I basically just feel a bit ashamed for not doing anything for such a long time.
However in the last month or so I became aware of the possibility of me going into the merchant navy. This is really the only thing that I've ever genuinely felt I could enjoy doing my whole life, and I'm a little bummed out I never looked at it before. I've thought about it for a long while and looked into it to make sure I would definitely want to do this.
So yeah, my question-
I'm planning to apply for places in january, as I hear courses begin in both september and january, and I'm assuming I'm far too late to apply for september. What I want to know is would the fact that I am a 17 year old who dropped out of college and proceeded to do bugger all for another five or six months be detrimental to the possibility that I'd be accepted? Would this damage my chances at all, even if there is nothing wrong with the rest of my application? Should I leave the fact that I attended college out? Or would that just make the fact that I've been doing nothing look even worse?
I'm sorry for the length. I probably could have just asked the question by itself now that I think about it.
That's a bad habit.
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