What am I going to do with my life? What do I want to do?

Questions everyone has asked themselves at least once in their lives. I think, however, that students ask those questions more than most. Especially university students. And so we should. The answers may influence the some of the most important decisions we will ever have to make. Its made even harder by the sorry fact that the hardest decisions we have had to make over the past 3 or 4 years are whether you stay in the bar or go to the library, or whether you're going to have blackcurrant cordial in your snakebite or not!

So after 18 years of education, with GCSE's, A-Levels and now a degree under my belt, I couldnt answer either of the above questions. Not with a straight answer anyway. I want to do a job I enjoy, that stimulates my mind and pays enough so I don't have to live on super noodles every day of the week.

The end of life as I knew it was almost a year ago now. Award ceremonies always mark the end of the year, but for me and my friends it was much greater than the chance to dress up and be revered for outstanding contributions to student (or rather social) life.

We would no longer be together as a unit, everything was going to be different. Some of my friends were going travelling...or putting off the inevitable in the heat, as I saw it. I wished I was going with them. But I had no money, and no rich parents who were willing to fund a jaunt around the world for a couple of months. So it was out of the questions, or going with them was. They were leaving too early. Another of my friends had a job set up in the city. Sounds great, but it was daddy who set them up with that one.

I couldnt follow any of my friends leads, which meant I was totally stuck. So I did either the cleverest or stupidest thing, and enrolled to do a law conversion course. Cleverest because it points me in the direction of a career, stupidest because it costs an absolute fortune, and I wasnt even sure if I wanted to be a solicitor. But I'm prone to stupidity, and I went ahead. Its been...well, the worst year of my life so far...