It happened the other way around, for me - I started off being a jerk, then had to knuckle down. When I started my 7th school , they told me I'd be lucky to get 1 grade D CSE..lol. So, I had to work really hard in the last 2 years of school.

I left with 27 different qualifications!

And wound up driving a truck for a living!

It's not always about how many qualifications you have, GHoST - it's often about your confidence and aptitude. Like, bullshit your way in, and then learn really fast lol.
You're intelligent enough to have a crack at almost anything - ending up in a McDonalds, or summat, does you no justice - and you'll just end up a zombie.

You enjoy writing, why not have a crack at being a free-lance reporter or journalist?
Write a tourist guide or summat - something original with a spot of humour - then sell it to a publisher.
Write an article highlighting the growing danger associated with Geese, I've not read too much about it, maybe you're the one to expose the truth!

lol

It's a nightmare, for sure - I faced the same probs when I left school. I went on a YTS scheme, a good way of learning a trade, and they payed for extra education (I did A level Accounts (what a fucking laff - skint, as I am lol), and A level business studies) - and still wound up driving a fricking lorry

I obviously went wrong somewhere along the way....ho hum

Use a bit of intitiative and bollocks, and you'll be surpised how well you'll be able to blag your way into something - but not McD's...or I'll come over and slap you,...personally
RESiNATE Reviewed by RESiNATE on . Just venting... Okay, so here's the deal... I'm unemployed.. I live on a small Island (population c100,000) that has roughly 500 unemployed people, and only about 100 jobs available (probably not even that) When I started Secondary School I was the most intelligent in my class. I was automatically put into all the highest sets (over here each subject has roughly 8 sets, set 1 being the highest).. Even though I was in Set 1 for every subject, I still found the work easy and, to be honest, pretty boring. Rating: 5