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How do I start a career at 24 with no college degree? Please see the details and suggest.

  • After finishing with my 12th, I joined a college for bachelor's degree but continued to sit for medical entrances for consecutive 3 years but couldn't able to crack it. In that time I totally neglected my college, failed in few exams and as a result university didn't allow me to sit for final year exam. So I ended up with a loss of 4 years and no college degree. In this last one year I had to lie about my degree to everyone. But I want to start afresh, I want to have a degree. I may not be able to enrol for a regular course, so I have decided to pursue the degree in correspondence.  I know it's little late and I'll be completing my degree at 27. But even after that i'll have 1-2 year to sit for govt. exams and hope to crack. Am I being too unrealistic !! Is there any other alternatives? I don't know how much I can resist my parents who wants me to get married by this year. But I hope to stand against the odds and fulfil my dream. Please suggest. Edit: I am a girl and hail from India. I want to pursue biology as a subject.

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    Degrees are not everything. I am less qualified than many of my peers in terms of degrees. In the private sector, what matters is 'WHAT YOU KNOW' and not what degrees you bring to the table. Many young women in India unfortunately mechanically pursue one degree after another and easily accumulate a B.A. or an M.A. or two. Or, they go for technical/engineering education and acquire a degree like B.E. or B.Tech. Many young women in my family have done exactly that. Then they get married and take care of household stuff like cooking, cleaning and taking care of the baby (when the baby 'happens'). What use their 'degrees' then? If you want to get 'jobs' though, here's how to go about it. You got to focus on acquiring some skill that also interest you. Look at the IT sector; you will find thousands of companies who are into 'web design' and SEO and SEM. The skills you need to work in these companies include programming in PHP or knowledge of CMS systems like Joomla and Drupal. Acquire those skills and then apply for jobs. Do not expect to get government jobs, if you ask me. In a nation of 1,300 million people that is India, how many work in government? The thing with private sector jobs is that it is always insecure. Well, that is the 'free market' for you. Americans and others live their lives with that kind of uncertainty. Have a variety of interests to live an interesting life. Marriage is not the purpose of life — not for men and not for women. See how Nora Ephron describes how being a woman has meant different things to her in different decades. That is the way to go. Keep pushing yourself and explore new frontiers of knowledge. Kalpana Chawla came from the small town of Karnal in Haryana and went to space on a space shuttle as an American beating millions of Americans in the process (as NASA selected her in preference to thousands of other astronaut candidates). It is not about where you reach in the end but the journey itself. Life is not fair. We got to make the best of the hand that is dealt to us. No point in giving the examples of Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or Stephen Hawking as not many will accomplish what they have. But I think most of us can claim to be luckier than Stephen Hawking. He had exceptional intellectual ability as a young college student for sure but not many of us would want to be diagnosed with a form of sclerosis in our early 20s. Following well trodden paths is not really the purpose of life. What fun is there in doing what so many others have done? Hence, Steve Jobs is worth watching again even if you have seen this before. Or, read the unusual tale of Mona Simposn's college education http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/opinion/sunday/what-life-in-the-real-world-costs.html?_r=0. Be a pioneer in some way even if everyone cannot be an Amelia Earhart.

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Medical Entrance Exams do take a toll on our life. But as you see you have had a tough luck with exams for a long time so I guess you need to modify the approach a bit. Your plans to crack govt exam after graduating at 27 look unrealistic but yet ambitious. A degree is needed to be successful but getting a degree doesn't mean success. I can see that you like Biology as a subject, so I would say look into some other courses where you can get practical knowledge like Diploma in Medical Lab Technology, this will help you maintain the connect. And once you are done with it you can start your own lab, or work in some labs. No need to worry about exams anymore. Most of us have tough luck with exams. But let me tell you they are just by chance so we should always have alternate paths to solve the problem

Kush Tripathi

Take time to know what comes to you very well & begin doing it with a strategy. Put your effort. Education is not everything!

Abinaya Chandran

OK in the next five years, most likely, you have two goals: career and marriage. Your marriage prospects as an Indian girl are going to drop a ton after 28, 29, and if you are fat, unattractive, etc., this will happen earlier. I would take advantage of the fact that your marriage marketability is still good, and get married to a NRI. I know it sounds blunt and gold diggery, but that's not what I mean. You can find true love and also achieve your dreams. I also believe that marriage needs love, but at a certain level, it is an exchange of different attributes. My first advice would be not to make your past into some sob story. Like any job interview, it's all how you present yourself. Think about what you want in your ideal guy and make an active effort to find him.  Also, consider your own pluses and minuses. Don't just go for what's available and convenient (guys you know personally).  You definitely need to broaden your scope to NRI guys,  so this will involve going online and perhaps involving the family network. Be honest with any potential and tell him that you would like to enjoy time with him and study for about two years. Afterwards, you can come to the US, apply at a community college (open admission), and take your prerequisite courses. You can easily transfer to a university. Forty courses are required for most degrees, so it takes eight semesters. If you take summer courses, you can be done in 2.5-3 years. American university classes are straightforward and very organized. Indians generally do very well in the American academic environment. However, I would advise AGAINST a biology degree. A bachelor's degree in biology is utterly useless unless you want to be washing glassware or working with mice in some lab for a very low wage. Most people just do this degree as a stepping stone to grad school. The good thing about the American university model is that general education courses are required, so perhaps you will find a subject you have a natural aptitude for, and that has some job demand. I personally recommend Nursing (very popular among Kerala people in the US, not sure why), Accounting and Engineering. These degrees offer good prospects with only a bachelor's degree. You can also do a two-year associate degree in programs such as radiology technician, ultrasound technician, etc. These programs have salaries about 40-60K and are entirely respectable in the US. Maybe you feel bad reading all this but see...you already spent four years trying to achieve a goal, and probably your parents had to pay the bill. It did not work. It makes sense to go for the next goal. Imagine if in another four years, you do not have an admission nor you are married. Both you and your parents will feel bad.  There's a saying, "if you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always got." So perhaps give a try to this different strategy. Good luck.

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