Should I continue my training or not?
I don't know what to do…
I'm currently in my second year of training as a mechatronics engineer. Before that, I started my Abitur (university entrance qualification) but dropped out after 11th grade. I regret this decision almost daily and keep saying I want to go back to school. I'm so disappointed in myself for making this decision and for not believing in myself. I'd prefer not to continue the training at all, for several reasons, but a technical education is beneficial for my future career goals.
Since I started working in a workshop, I feel like I'd much rather be sitting in an office, finishing my high school diploma, or something similar. These thoughts just won't leave me alone and drive me crazy almost daily. I just can't deal with them and I know even less what to do…
I mean, it's "only" 1 1/2 years left, but that's a lot of time, especially considering how I'm doing under these "circumstances."
I cry a lot because I just don't know what to do. I enjoy the training itself, the courses and such, because I think it's great to learn something like that and then be able to apply it in everyday life, but on the other hand, I also want to learn something else.
So many of my friends tell me I should stop training because they see how I feel when I talk about it, but somehow it's not that simple.
I keep thinking that I can't just drop out of something and start something new. I mean, what does it look like on my resume?
On the other hand, I know people who are older than me and haven't really achieved anything in their lives.
I just don't know what to do. I don't really dare tell my parents because I'm afraid of disappointing them.
I would like to get an opinion from someone outside to know what they think about the whole thing.
I know no one can make this decision for me, but it would help me to get other opinions on the topic. (And please don't tell me to listen to my gut feeling or something like that 🙈)
Thank you in advance for your help and sorry for the very long text 🙂
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Mechatronics and later Abitur? It’s cool!
For the sake of clarity, the view of The Lumpenpack See: Teachers
Otherwise: Yes, do this training only to end. If you don’t have to do this, you can now prepare yourself for the Abitur. Take a look at evening schools and evening courses for individual subjects…
Don’t regret your earlier decision, she was the right one at the time. Now you know more and would decide differently today, only, unfortunately is always earlier than now and what, now everything is known, was previously simply not available. You’ve developed further.
Proposal: Be aware that you are one of the best, the best, the best (see MIB I) in your current training. A trainee has even received a scholarship from the IHK (and would otherwise have had no money to study). Find out what may vary from IHK to IHK.
Good courage! In retrospect, CVs always look much more rectilinear than they may appear from the point of view of the next decision to be taken.
Another demolition then, of course, looks like you like to throw the towel when it becomes more difficult. (Whether that corresponds to the facts, it is not said – it affects the reader of the resume.)
For you, it is more important that you have spent the time for nothing through a break. It’s lost. From this point alone, it makes sense to finish training. Then at least you have the degree in your pocket. Don’t worry that you don’t think about what’s going on in parallel and if it happens. a reorientation to another profession or even school. Only what you have completed can no one take you anymore and the time that has already been spent on it is not wasted.
Apparently, you’re someone who’s hard to end something.
I strongly advise you to complete the training, then you have something in your hand and then you can continue to train instead of starting a new one (with unclear exit)
That there are also older people than you, who shouldn’t have anything to do with you.