Greetings, my fellow Escapists!
I have recently completed my A level studies with a good set of grades. I took them a year early, as a fast track option at school. I have the grades I need to get into university, but was not allowed to apply for the course a year in advance due to the personal care placement that would fall before my 18th birthday. As a result of this I have been all but ejected from school, and therefore my comfort zone, into the wide open world.
It's been two weeks, and I hate it. I can't get a job - I'm deemed over qualified for rudimentary retail or customer service positions, and professional (office) positions don't want somebody who is both under 18 and only able to work for a year before moving ~300 miles away. I would love to be able to work as a care assistant, or at least in that field, but as stated, I'm under 18 and it is therefore questionably legal and certainly against any company policy for me to work in such a position.
I'm stuck, guys. I thought I'd be able to get a job easily enough, but I'm in an awkward 'limbo of unemployability'. I have no money and no means of acquiring money. I'm wasting away and at this rate I'm not actually going to get an offer from my universities of choice, having been not only out of school but unemployed for a year.
I need help, and everybody I ask advice from all but laughs in my face. They say I'm a smart kid in a position they wish they had when they were my age. Sitting on A and B grades, 4 of them, as a 17 year old. But it's not a good position. Any advice on what I should do this year?
I have recently completed my A level studies with a good set of grades. I took them a year early, as a fast track option at school. I have the grades I need to get into university, but was not allowed to apply for the course a year in advance due to the personal care placement that would fall before my 18th birthday. As a result of this I have been all but ejected from school, and therefore my comfort zone, into the wide open world.
It's been two weeks, and I hate it. I can't get a job - I'm deemed over qualified for rudimentary retail or customer service positions, and professional (office) positions don't want somebody who is both under 18 and only able to work for a year before moving ~300 miles away. I would love to be able to work as a care assistant, or at least in that field, but as stated, I'm under 18 and it is therefore questionably legal and certainly against any company policy for me to work in such a position.
I'm stuck, guys. I thought I'd be able to get a job easily enough, but I'm in an awkward 'limbo of unemployability'. I have no money and no means of acquiring money. I'm wasting away and at this rate I'm not actually going to get an offer from my universities of choice, having been not only out of school but unemployed for a year.
I need help, and everybody I ask advice from all but laughs in my face. They say I'm a smart kid in a position they wish they had when they were my age. Sitting on A and B grades, 4 of them, as a 17 year old. But it's not a good position. Any advice on what I should do this year?