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I need help guys! I started uni a few weeks back on a Business course but tbh im just not enjoying myself at all. The people in my halls are great and we all get on really well. The uni is nice aswell but I just cant imagine myself living here for the next 4 years. The course im on is more Management based, which I dont really enjoy as much as other areas and I am thinking that I should have gone down the Accounting and Finance road. I've approached my personal tutor about this and she thinks there will be no problem switching to that as we have really only begun lectures this week. She also said that if needs be they are happy to hold my place for a year.
However, I think my main problem is that I just dont want to study anymore. I was never a fan of school but I had some amazing friends and teachers who made it worthwhile. I hate exams and get very depressed and stressed during them and I dont really want to put myself through that again in an academic sense. My motivation for this years A-level exams was low and and it was only my good AS results that allowed me to get the results that I got.
I went to a decent grammar school and got straight A's at A-level so im no dunce. My school never touched upon any other options other than going to university so I never really thought about anything else. It's only now that i'm here that im wondering if it is the right thing to do. I miss my family terribly and am going home this weekend to chat with them about how i'm feeling. All my friends seemed so excited about going to uni but I was all a bit 'meh' about it all. I really wish I loved it but i dont atm.
At the moment im tempted to drop out and have a year out, earn some money that should help towards my fees and hopefully regain some of the motivation that i've lost. A few of my freinds are having a year out so I dont think that i would feel like im falling behind them. I hope it would allow me to clear things up about the course I want to persue (if any) and consider any other options. Im asking you, the informative OTF, what other options are available to me if I choose I didnt want to go to uni. Dont fancy a career in Macdonalds or Tescos, but more of trainee roles, working for businesses on a salary and learning meanwhile. Are these sorts of things available?
If you're serious about the accounting then you can join ACCA/CIMA without having to do a degree first - but there is the small matter of 14 exams you need to pass to qualify! My suggestion is take a year out and then see if you fancy studying again.
I'd echo what Rocky said tbh - although during that year I'd expect you'd only be able to get admin / clerical roles within businesses, which might be too boring and unstimulating as you're obviously relatively intelligent academically. Depends on your experience and where you'd be living as to what options would be available. And bear in mind that the liklihood is that your work colleagues would be older, and with a lot of friends off at uni it may be a fairly low-key year you have.
Be careful if you do decide to leave uni and get a job because once you start to get use to having money in the bank and being able to buy stuff whenever you want it very hard to go back to being a student with no money!
I know what you mean about your school giving you no options other than Uni. Left school after my A Levels in the summer and have now started looking for work. Really didn't feel right going to Uni yet as I don't know what I would want to study there and be bothered to do the work. My school was awful at talking to people not going to Uni, as now I have no real idea about where to turn etc and what road is the best to go down
Cheers for the comments. Think im set on having a year out to think about what I want to do. Ime enjoying the course more atm but still am not 100% sure its whats right for me. If I reapply next year, which I think I will, i'll have to decide whether to stay at home or have another go at moving out. Hopefully i'll "man up" a bit in the year out and seeing all my mates having a quality time should spur me on to return to Uni.
University - the right choice for me? 
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