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Is it important to have a degree?

I have done 2 years of a degree in architecture, and have one more year till I finish, but am really not enjoying it, am completely uninterested, and feel quite terrified of it, (seeing programmes about it, thinking about it etc.)

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PurplePluto offline Verified User (6 months, 3 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 5 months, 3 weeks ago (7 minutes after post)

maybe you could just start another course…

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Fritwell, K2, GB | 5 months, 3 weeks ago (15 minutes after post)

I had a friend like that she scrapped a pass but is now in a job she loves that she couldn’t do without a degree, if you think you can find a route that will make you happy without a degree then go for it, I don’t have a degree and after nearly 10 years of jobs I hate I have finally found something I love to do and am starting up my own business, if you do want to become an architect tho you will need to continue that degree

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An Undisclosed Location | 5 months, 3 weeks ago (20 minutes after post)

Do you have any idea of what you want to do then, if not architecture? If you don’t quite know then you might as well stick it out for another year.

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An Unknown Location | 5 months, 3 weeks ago (1 day, 4 hours after post)

I’d say it depends on what you REALLY want. It can be really scary to change course, you have to be really brave to start a new one, then you wonder if you’ll be as successful somewhere else than where you are now.

Try and look as objectively as you can at yourself. Other people, directors of studies etc can help. Ask yourself, is it me.. or is it the course. Go back to your old school and talk to the teachers there-they know you really well. They’ll give you an idea of whether they think architecture is your field for your type of personality and potential.

Dont think failing makes you a bad person either. Charles Darwin started studying medicine at Edinburgh University and failed and look what happened to him.

Degrees are important, but so is the direction your life is taking you in.

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An Unknown Location | 5 months, 3 weeks ago (1 day, 19 hours after post)

thanks,

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