My future!

[SantaCruzScotty]

!!Sorry if this is in the wrong place!!

I find my self in a training course that gives me £10 a day that im in (£50 a week) and im now 19 years old and want to start looking towards my future.

I still have dreams of bodyboarding pro, playing paintball all my life, but i know i'm going to have to get a job soon in my life. I have a "Pass" mark in I.T level 2. Currently working to improve the level to the equivlent of a "merit" or "distaction".
I was wondering if anyone would give me ideas what i could plan my future round, whether i could start off in to a small paintballing shop and maybe someday make my own paintballing shop?

I don't know, (Hint the thread and the pleade for help!) but i want to focus on one thing and complete it and get in to a job that has good pay.

If i could have any suggestions i would really appreciate it. (try not to d*ck about!)
Cheers

 

[ian_posh]

Design on photoshop etc.

Who knows maybe one day a designer maybe needed for the likes of dye

 

[SantaCruzScotty]

Theres not much i could do to sorta shout out "HEY LOOK AT ME! IM GOOD AT PHOTOSHOP!"
I'll hopfuly be doing photography next (academic) year. So i just hope i earn money to get myself a decent camera aswell to also show what i can do.

Cheers for your responce.

 

[ian_posh]

Photoshop etc. meaning all things to do with design!

The paintball industry isnt the easiest industry to get into in the sleightest!

 

[SantaCruzScotty]

nah i understand that!
but like FOR EXAMPLE! Dye say we need a new logo, how would i apply for it if i havnt got photoshop (Being as it costs £100 Odd?)
but i honestly wouldnt mind working in a shop selling paintball gear and what not and then maybe someday own my own shop?
I want to stay in this sport as welll as others.
but i honestly don't know where to go/start the path of it.

 

[zendeejay]

Zebrahead, What are you wanting to do other than the pipe dreams stated. Is there something you think wow i could do that??? if so my only advice could be to knuckle down and work hard at it. I was in the same boat as you, @20 i had no ideas of what i wanted, @21 i got offered an apprenticeship in bricklaying, by 24 i was finished and working in holland and germany laying synthetic flooring ( i know it had bot all to do with brick laying but i took the chance and offer). Now i'm stuck in an office pushing paper as a buyer for a construction firm. I still haven't reached my goal of what i want to do but i don't know how to get a break in it after all my enquiries. perseverance and who you know is the key. Good luck in the future.

 

[SantaCruzScotty]

Zebrahead, What are you wanting to do other than the pipe dreams stated. Is there something you think wow i could do that??? if so my only advice could be to knuckle down and work hard at it. I was in the same boat as you, @20 i had no ideas of what i wanted, @21 i got offered an apprenticeship in bricklaying, by 24 i was finished and working in holland and germany laying synthetic flooring ( i know it had bot all to do with brick laying but i took the chance and offer). Now i'm stuck in an office pushing paper as a buyer for a construction firm. I still haven't reached my goal of what i want to do but i don't know how to get a break in it after all my enquiries. perseverance and who you know is the key. Good luck in the future.

Thanks for that!!

But I dont like anything like bricklaying or anything along those lines... maybe in a garage but not so much as something else...
19 and this is where i start worrying about my future, i really should have listened in school...

 

[glenn]

get yourself to uni and do a design (if you want to be a designer) or business (if you want to run your own shop) degree. then if you dont quite make it youll have some proper qualifications to fall back on

 

[SantaCruzScotty]

get yourself to uni and do a design (if you want to be a designer) or business (if you want to run your own shop) degree. then if you dont quite make it youll have some proper qualifications to fall back on

I have my level 2 in I.T., so how would i go about that? D:
im pretty nifty on the computers and gadgets, but im not sure how to find my way to owning a shop... Is it worth popping along to a small shop and asking the manager how he started or?..

Cheers

 

[no-infernomark]

id say join the prison or police forces, room for improvement and good training however now i know what i know about the prison service i would go to uni and do a degree in business and accounts. even open uni is good. im doing an open uni in ppe and its real good. education is the start of any future.