It really is up to you and what you want to do with yourself. A lot of university students can't find a job until a year after they graduate because workplaces are employing people not only with credentials but also work experience. Many graduates are finding themselves needing to work below their graduate skills because they don't have the workplace skills.
Also there are quite a few people I know who are earning more than graduates and they didn't go to university at all. Personally I took two years off of school to work full time. I worked in a bakery and had a blast while doing it and now am back in school trying to get back into university. The two years off were great and now I'm back on track.
Look if you're really bored you're probably going to get bad grades because you're not interested. The people who get the best grades are either born geniuses or they're really interested and thus try really hard at school. Sometimes all you need is a break, work a few jobs to find what you really like to do and then when you have a goal in life you'll do much better in school. But yes, it's always up to the parents in the end but sometimes all you need to do is sit them down, make them actually listen to what you say and explain everything very carefully.
From experience, parents usually back down and understand if you can provide a detailed plan to prove you actually thought everything out and you're not just being lazy. If they can see that you have an idea of what you want to do but you just need to do it differently than school=> school => work people they start thinking "Wah, she's grown up." But that's usually the parents around my area here in Australia. Though we all started from the same region yea? =D Good luck.
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Also there are quite a few people I know who are earning more than graduates and they didn't go to university at all. Personally I took two years off of school to work full time. I worked in a bakery and had a blast while doing it and now am back in school trying to get back into university. The two years off were great and now I'm back on track.
Look if you're really bored you're probably going to get bad grades because you're not interested. The people who get the best grades are either born geniuses or they're really interested and thus try really hard at school. Sometimes all you need is a break, work a few jobs to find what you really like to do and then when you have a goal in life you'll do much better in school. But yes, it's always up to the parents in the end but sometimes all you need to do is sit them down, make them actually listen to what you say and explain everything very carefully.
From experience, parents usually back down and understand if you can provide a detailed plan to prove you actually thought everything out and you're not just being lazy. If they can see that you have an idea of what you want to do but you just need to do it differently than school=> school => work people they start thinking "Wah, she's grown up." But that's usually the parents around my area here in Australia. Though we all started from the same region yea? =D Good luck.