Life going no where fast!!!

[sod96]

I'm 18 and I decided to repeat my leaving cert (last year of school) I decided to repeat to do better in my exams and try and go to college. I now know half way through the year that I can't afford college next year so there's no point me being in school and now I don't know what to do with my life I don't just want to get a job and live the same boring life my parents are living and I can't go to college cause of costs so what do I do? Stay in school for the rest of the year or leave and do what? Please someone help me?

[Luminous]

Stay in school for the rest of the year. You don't know what your financial situation will be like at the end of the year, or next year, or the year after that. You may be unable to attend college this coming school year and will have to make do for a while, but hopefully not soon after that you will be back up to where you were and go to school then. Even if somehow you don't get a higher education, that high school diploma, just a few months away, will get you a lot farther than quitting now. Not everybody has to go to college, but high school is pretty important.

[CosmicNoodle]

Don't think of it as going nowhere fast, think of it as going somewhere slowly :P

[sod96]

See I've all ready got my leaving cert done (high School diploma?) so there's no need for me to continue school when I'm not going to college. My financial situation won't change unless I win the lotto and I won't ask my parent to re mortgage the house just so I can go to college and do a course I don't even know I really want to do. All that I can think is I've a future of being average or normal and I can't accept that. I don't want to live an average life

[Danny Phantom]

Ireland doesn't give financial aid for college/uni if you need it?
I'm an independent student and I cannot afford college either (and my college is $6,000 a year, which is considered cheap in the U.S.), but I get full financial aid and an extra stipend.

[Vlerchan]

If your situation is as bad as you make out then you should be eligible for SUSI (http://www.susi.ie/), which will start accepting applications for 15/16 sometime in the middle of next year.