I saw my girlfriend today and she cheered me up a little. Breif summary:
I want to become a Counsellor (no lol'in, plz). I never knew what to do in School, thinking I wanted to do Music Therapy, but unfortunately that idea never flurished because the majority of Music Therapists play a mobile instrument (i.e., Guitar, Picollo, Flute, etc), and a 3-Tonne Piano isn't exactly something you can carry around on your back.
I went to College after I finished school and got a very boring, Walmart-type job. My mother suggested I go and do a 10-week short course in Counselling in College, so I went ahead and joined that course at the age of 18 (You needed to be 25 to get on the course, but with the amount of SHIT I went through growing up, and the fact that my mother did the course before me, they let me on after an hour long interview). You see, to become a Counsellor, they value life experience more over anything else. I did this short course, and loved it, and a year later completed a Year-long course that was a 2-yr course crammed into one (I left College with 4 A-Levels, and left School with 3; I have 7 A-Levels all grades A-C).
So I left it a year because by this time I was 20 and wanted to get some money, travel a little, and whatnot. Meanwhile, all my school friends were in their final year in university. Most university courses will not look at an application of anyone who is under the age of 21 to be accepted on a Counselling course, and all require some form of previous training, whether it be from your current occupation (Social Worker, Personal Management, etc) or from previous tuitions; I had the latter.
Last November I applied to one of the best Counselling Universities in the UK, and it is no further than 15 miles from my house, which is excellent. However, I was rejected on the grounds that I was "too young" and felt that I was inadequate for the course.
On the weekend, my Girlfriend moved into University, and I've been really down ever since. Mostly because if I had been accepted, I too would be starting University and doing what I want to do in life. However, I'm still stuck here, in my rut, playing FFXI in my spare time and working a shitty job whenever they are willing to pay me. I currently have no money, my car Tax is due at the end of the month and I don't get paid til next. It just seems that everyone around me is getting on with their life, settling down, moving out or going for their ideal jobs, whereas my occupation I want to go into is simply discriminating me against my age. The reason I want to do this is so that I can become a Child Counsellor, because if it were say Marraige Counselling or Counselling Adults, I would be both intimidated by me and I them (because of my age), whereas if I am younger than others, children are more likely to open up to younger people than older people.
Also, all this shit with my Hair and work lately. Which, btw, the new Personal Manager quoted EXACTLY what Fran said, and basically told me, "If you want to dye your hair, ask us what colours are appropriate and we will agreee to it or not", at which point I kindly told her where she can appropriate her words if she thinks my shitty £6.50/hr job dictates to me what I can do with my body.
It just seems so futile. I have all these qualifications I left school with, and pursued more in College, and are doing nothing with them. I loved every second of my 2 years of studying Counselling, and really, really want to progress in the field, hell, I had the highest end-of-year grade out of my entire class, but they simply won't look at that because I am, in their eyes, "too inexperienced in life". Which sucks...
So ya, that's why I'm emo this week, and that's why I was emo about the whole Tiamat time, because back then it was Game > Camping Tiamat > Wait 3 days > Camping Tiamat > Wait 3 days > Camping Tiamat > Wait 3, etc...
So sorry if I'm a bit aggitated with anyone recently, I don't mean it, I'm just pissed off at life.