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City of London College (now Uni), the LSE to do Philosophy, Logic and Semantics. Qualified as an Accountant to keep my dad happy (and the wolf from the door). Thereafter did various courses eg oil-painting, geology, still and cine photography, horticulture, psychology etc to keep from stagnating. Len

I did A-levels in Maths, French, and Computing. I didn't pass Maths & Computing first time round, so stayed on another year to have another go and thankfully got enough UCAS points to get to my first choice Uni (Hertfordshire). After getting my degree, I went into IT and lived and worked in Germany for 18 months - the most rollercoaster experience of my life so far.

wow, It's good you have your dream job, Lucia :-)

i also work for the familiy business, it's my job whilst i'm at uni, keeps my car going and other essentials it is nice to work with family i agree.

I did my A-levels (English lit, english lang, psychology and french) Didn't get the grades needed to go to the universities I'd be accepted to (thank god!) so started working. I did 6 months at BT for the Year in Industry course. Then went and repped for Club 18-30 for 6 months. Then worked in PR as I thought that was what I wanted to do... Luckily I am now in a situation where I'm doing my dream job, in the family business and enjoying it. I will never regret not going to uni (I wanted to do a BA in PR!!!) as I have had my 'fun' and am now in a very (potentially) successful career... but as I remind myself each day - I am lucky! becx

nigh night lucia XXX victoria

Night Everyone, see you all tomorrow! Lucia :-)

You would not beleve how much I loved that job. I know sites in hants that only a privaliged few know of becuse of the rare wild life, plant life and and nesting site of some very rare lizzerds. Ah well I can still get out in to the country even if I cant work it any more and I still help the local councel with some of there projects. well off to bed now see you on the boards tomorrow.

lol Christine, that's an idea! Night Hopefully I'll see you on the film thread soon! Lucia :-)

Here Lucia, think you should try for Edinburgh Uni. Five minutes walk on one side of it is National Museums of Scotland, and five minutes walk on the other side and you have GRO for Scotland! What more could you want! LOL night Christine

well it's certainly different to school thats for sure, your treated as an adult most of the time, but the work is alot more indepth and intense. i'm sure you'd like it. i can't do alot of the social stuff but i still have fun.

Peter, that sounds like a good life lol :-) Lucia

wow. If I do get to uni I think I'll find it completely different than school. It sounds like fun, Lucia :-)

I uses to run my own conservation landscaping buiss But had to sell it when the wife got bad and now i look after her. and do research on the computer, paint and thing like that.

The university of exeter in Cornwall, i'm disabled so i couldn't move away, i wanted to do law but they didn't offer it down here so english it is, its an interesting course though.

What uni are you at? :-)

wow, i hope you get what u want, ur sure sound smart enough. i'm doing a degree in English, i didn't realise there was so many other humanities involved in it especially psychology.

I hope so Christine and it isn't in the same column as one of my choices! I'll have to speak to my teacher tomorrow about it, :-) Lucia

So what do you do Peter? :-)

Good for you Lucia, does that mean you will be able to drop one of the options you didn't really want to do, and do Modern studies instead? Christine