Dear Jack:

Are there school based counselors, career counselors in your school that can help you?

Maybe you can meet with a career counselor/ advisor in Uni while you are still in secondary school, to help you prepare your way ahead?

What I can tell you- because it is easy to determine this- is that panicking will not help you. Got to adopt a CALM attitude, as calm as possible.

You are thinking about your future, good. On the other hand, fifty years of future in one package of a boring, low paying lump is too much to think about.

If you could go back in time, you would make a few different choices, I understand. On the other hand, wrong choices, in retrospect, is what everyone does, including successful people. Your life now is not as threatened as you think it is, because of those choices.

All-or-Nothing is a category of distorted thinking and it goes something like this, in your case: I made wrong choices and now Nothing is my future. No, no, not so.

anita