what career? help please

Some sort of scientist? Teacher?

Hmmm. yeah. anything else? lol thank you amethyst x

Speech therapy? Occupational therapy? You'd need to do a degree in the relevant subject.

Do you want to do the A-level for pleasure in it's own right or are you meaning as a stepping stone to a career? If it's the latter, I don't think an A level will do you much good to be honest - if you are thinking of working towards higher education, you are far better looking at university courses then contacting them to see what you'd require, you wont need a-levels as a mature student, many degrees will have a year 0 / access courses.

I think starting with the a-level then what you could do with it is the wrong way round. Work out what you want to do then see what course you'd need to get there.

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What about one of the other 'allied health professions'? Physio? OT? Radiographer?

They all need degrees I think but if you are looking for a career and not just a job IYSWIM it might be worth investigating further?

ETA link https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/

Thank you knownowt.

kaz- thats the thing im not sure what i want to do to be honest. i was thinking that i would do it for pleasure and if that could lead me onto a career that would be fab. but lately i have been thinking of maybe councling (sp?)

Counselling can be all kinds of qualifications - from very short courses to a postgraduate qualification after a Psychology degree through to being a clinical psychologist which takes a lot of postgrad training. I don't know what the job prospects are like if you just have a certificate in counselling, and I think some clients would be wary of going to someone who hadn't had what they'd see as "proper" training.

It's worth a look on the NHS careers website - can't remember what it's called now - and they do have a kind of questionnaire to match you to a career. There are loads of allied health professions that you might not have thought of as well as nursing or midwifery; OT or physio, as has been said. Speech and language therapists, radiographers, ODPs (assistants for operating theatres - looks really interesting!), play therapists for children in hospital.

I'm applying for midwifery at the moment, and a lot of the people I'm talking to about it who haven't got the qualifications they need are doing open university science modules, if they can't get to a local college to do an access course. There are "openings" courses which aren't degree level but lead you into that kind of study, or introductory courses where I think the only pre-requisite is that you can read & understand a broadsheet newspaper, eg the Times or The Guardian. There are online tests to decide which level you need to start at.

Do you have Maths and English at GCSE grade C or above? Any kind of degree level training will need that, so if not it might be better to do down the access course route, which would give you the equivalent to those plus biology at A level standard if you did an access to health care course.

I'd imagine your local college would do an introductory counselling course. I did one about 5 years ago - it was 10 or 12 weeks IIRC and take it from there. Another way in is through organisations loke Relate where you can volunteer and they will train you.

Wow alot to think about. thank you everyone x