I’m bored. Really, really bored. Over the last few months I have watched people leave college and start working; sometimes for themselves, and often for others. I’ve also watched people become redundant and, if you’re trying to look at the positive side of things, they now have had the slate wiped clean – an infinite number of opportunities now available to them.

While all that has been happening, I, on the other hand, have been stuck in the classroom, exam hall and my room – doing homework. I don’t know what I really want to do in life – but I know what I don’t want to do. Put up with this seemingly endless bombardment of useless information for another minute.

But I do.

Why? Because at the end of the day I know that the harder I work, the more effort that I put into my education, I am widening my horizons, and when one doesn’t know what they want to do in life. That’s very reassuring to know.

Right now, I’m at the point when I’m looking into Universities and I’m not sure what to do. Every single person I talk to tells me that I must go to University, and I know why they say that – it’s just what’s ‘done’.

However, there is this voice in the back of my head asking me if I can really bare an extra four years of education – useful or not. I see the rational direction in which to go in. But yet, against everything my head is telling me – my instinct, just wants me to get out there and start doing something with my life.

So in the mean time, before I really have to start choosing Universities and what else I want to do; I’d better get back to digging my hole.

Paul Stamatiou has been blogging lately about his experiences of leaving college and working full time. With this and now Michael’s most recent article – I’m getting really excited about leaving school at getting ‘out there’.

Only issue: I’ve still got over two more years of school, and then… University.