On completion of my A levels I struggled with the concept of furthering my education to university level, so I thought, yes a gap year is in order. The aim of my gap year was to gather my thoughts regarding higher education, (which I had deferred my entry). Then in 2005, I thought well I can not see my self doing a job without a degree qualification. So I pursue my degree at Lancaster. I all told myself that ‘I wanted to work out doors’ and i loved earth sciences, thus Earth and Environmental Science was for me, however deep down I know I really wanted to do pure geology but at the time of applying I was determined to live at home.

Then during my second year at Lancaster I thought to myself, that I could not see myself working in the environmental sector, therefore I begin to search for geology related jobs, but with my broad degree I struggled to qualify for the pure geology jobs. Then I thought that a masters was in order to enable me to pursue my geological related job.

I applied to Newcastle before Christmas in 2007 as I needed realise they did an engineering geology MSc. I was fortunately able to get funding, which I was a surprise.

Therefore I conclude that it is never too late to pursue your dream as I have been able to convert back to geology……

Currently I am applying for jobs that will be outlined in my next post…