Being a teenager very draining, as you have to make a lot of decisions about careers, etc. and you have (cont)?

[Tameron Cucker]

Dear Yahoo! Answers community,

Being a teenager very draining, as you have to make a lot of decisions about careers, etc. and you have a lot of pressure from academic and relationship related sources. I am trying to block out unwanted relationship fiascos by focusing on academia, until I reach AT LEAST a top 30 university; and then I will do what most students do in their first year – party!

My career plans are out of a teacher, a lawyer, or a journalist. There are an abundance of problems related to each individual career. For instance, the latter – journalist – is the most unstable career listed. I want to be preferably a print journalist and have heard that print journalists are being sacked daily, as social media is overtaking traditional news sources. There is still a glimmer of hope though. I could attempt to get a job with a news agency, i.e. Reuters, AP, etc. but every wannabe journalist will be applying for these positions for more job ‘security’... There is also the problem that journalists are paid terrible salaries, even when you become a reporter for a national newspaper, the pay is still mediocre. Although all of the problems, journalism is the career I would be the most passionate about, but it really isn’t worth the risk.

Teachers have the most stable jobs, well in the UK anyway... But it isn’t a glamorous lifestyle at all. You have to deal daily with troublemakers and angry parents who won’t admit their child is in the wrong. Almost every teacher, at my school, was unhappy with their jobs. Most were alcoholics, depressives, or just miserable assholes in general. The only silver lining is they get a LOT of holidays, and live more laid-back lifestyles when compared with my next prospective career; a lawyer.

Law is a new interest of mine, especially criminal justice and corporate law. The only problem is that my grades are pretty average (AABBBBCD) and I still have my A levels to come. I doubt I’d get into a prestigious law school, i.e. Russell Group universities (British Ivy League more or less). I was considering getting an undergraduate degree in English Literature and doing a law conversion, then a postgraduate law degree from a top university – but I don’t know if English Literature degrees would be considered for postgraduate law school in the UK.

I get my ACTUAL GCSE results next Thursday. I am predicted the following: A in English Language (already achieved), A in English Literature, B in Food Technology (already achieved, but may get a higher mark for my retake), B in Spanish, B in Science, B in Mathematics, C in History and a D in French (my weakness). I may scrape a C in French, however it is HIGHLY UNLIKELY. I am so very worried about these results, and I haven’t been able to sleep for months because I have fixated on them. I can retake them, however it would damage my academic ego heavily – it’s already been bruised enough by lack of effort in some subjects, on my account.

So basically my questions to the Yahoo! Answers community are:
1.What career should I choose, based on the information – and my opinion – given?
2.Are my results weak?
3.How can I stop worrying I will fail some of my subjects, even though it is unlikely?

Thanks in advance,

Tameron Cucker

[Jan409]

Try being a parent of 3 teenagers, that's even more draining.........lol
Wait and see how you get on,
what is the point of worrying about something you cannot change?
Forget English Lit, hundreds of these grads are working in cafes and call centres- I know 3 of them
Get your results, move onto your 'A' levels and think about your future IN the future
Your way ahead of yourself,and you haven't even got your GCSE's yet,
you need to stop worrying so much
Calm down and enjoy your summer and stop stressing so much

[Callum]

Thanks a fu*king bunch I go to year nine soon and you've worried me about how unprepared I am but anyway go with what you can try for them all but its natural to be stressed and your worried about failing even though its highly unlikely

[CEMC]

Well, as a future journalist myself, I`m not doing it because of money, or stableness of the job. I`m doing it because I love writing and journalism. Yes, print journalism is unstable, but they do still have newspapers, so if I`m good enough one day, I hope to work for one. If you`re the most passionate about it, then why care about salary?